[RWP] New audio gear any thoughts?

[Chris Belle]

The big jump in price is because of having a full 16 returns or outputs back 
from the daw which the lesser mackies only give you two even though you have 
descrete inputs depending on your unit.

So you'd have 8 in and 2 back on the 820.

Stephie's a sharp lady, but she's stil learning about this audio stuff, and 
having two sound cards and making sure the right thing is going to the right 
place, well, it can confuse some people, it does me sometimes and I've been 
doing this for 30 years 'grin'.

Wait till you get a patch bay and see how much head scratching; you do to 
figure out how to best optimize it.

I broke out virtual audio cable the other day, and man that's a useful 
little tool, but you can sure get yourself in a dither over that making sure 
sampling frequencies and driver modes are compatible and making sure you 
have the right cables and repeaters going on.

But I've been workin with Stephie and now we have a third computer in there 
for her to record lessons, and I think we've wrestled everything in to 
submission, and she has a third pre-amp for the realtek a little 2 channel 
m-audio dmp3 I believe it was to get her signals up to snuff.

You'll like that mackie, it's a peach, any of the units you get.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerry Hoath" <khoath at gmail.com>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: [RWP] New audio gear any thoughts?


> I'm considering one of the Mackie 8 or 12 channel mixers the 820i or the 
> 1220i.
>
> The 1640I is like $2000 and i'm not sure if I need something that complex.
> I want to record singing with a backing track, and change levels for music 
> and voice. I could apply affects but probably better to apply them in 
> software later the price jump from the 1220 to the 1640i is rather large.
> I'm also looking at getting an interface for the pc, probably the tascam 
> as it seems rather analog and behaves well.
> The presonus audiobox seems cool but if Ihave a 8-12 channel mixer there's 
> no point having all that i/o on the audio box?
>
> Steff was always battling with volumes on ventrillo although that might be 
> Ventrillo's fault.
>
> regards, Kerry.
>
> On 5/11/2012 10:41 PM, Chris Belle wrote:
>> Carey, if you want the best experience with an accessible interface, then 
>> my recommendation is with any of the mackie onyx i series mixers.
>>
>> the little 820i clocks in at 4 hundred dollars, but there are no menus, 
>> and you get a lot of i-o and routing hands on.
>>
>
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