16 Channel (-ish) USB Mixer

[dougal]

Anyone played with one of these?

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They look like fantastic for the money: I'm thinking of trading in my FA101 for one.

The job is to pre-demo demos on the PC: record everyone into their own channel on the DAW (sonar in my case) and overdub / mess with structure / vocals as required.

[Eight]

Looks good to me. I've used a couple of Tascam mixers which were nice - don't know anything about their audio interfaces though.

Seen a few USB Mixers which mislead you into thinking they record each channel to the DAW independently when in fact you only get a two channel audio interface used to record the main mix output. But this one specifically states you've got 16.

Fancy it myself now.

Pricey?

[Daquifsta]

You might want to also consider the Zoom r16, which has 8 proper mic inputs (against the Tascam's 6) and records 8 channels simultaneously to an sd memory card. It's about £80 cheaper, too.

My band are going to get at least one of them very soon, maybe two, since they can be daisy chained together. Unless you really need to do 16 channels at once?

[51m0n]

[quote name='Daquifsta' post='832948' date='May 10 2010, 12:04 PM']You might want to also consider the Zoom r16, which has 8 proper mic inputs (against the Tascam's 6) and records 8 channels simultaneously to an sd memory card. It's about £80 cheaper, too.

My band are going to get at least one of them very soon, maybe two, since they can be daisy chained together. Unless you really need to do 16 channels at once?[/quote]

+1 the r16 is my favourite new bit of recording kit on the market, having said which, I dont have one (or two) yet, but I mean to get hold of them as soon as I can. Staggeringly powerful for the cash outlay.

[dougal]

R16 looks nice, my first thought is I think I'd prefer to keep all the tracks in the DAW: it sounds like I'd be tying myself to the hardware& wasting the money I'd spent on Sonar in the first place.

I will go & check one out though. Rather like the idea of popping down to the studio with it. Very old school 4-track cassette!

[wotnwhy]

I'm looking at getting the Yamaha MG206C, recorded using one a couple of weeks ago and was hugely impressed!

[PURPOLARIS]

I would say go for it.

I've got this Tascam, does what it says on the tin. I've got it in my rack and it's quite useful for live recording. We also use it for rehearsal, recording everything and listening back to see where we can improve.

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[JimBobTTD]

Did you get this? I use Sonar too and was wondering if it worked well.

What I would really like is the ability to have each track going to a track in Sonar - ie record 3 or 4 individual tracks simultaneously. A DAW controller which doesn't cost half three months' salary, in other words.