Josh Lawrence wrote:
A little off-topic here, but I need a mixer. I've got Ardour working
great now, and I'm ready to do some recording, possibly some live
recording of my trio. Here's my problem: I need a mixer that will
let me listen to the current mix, and only send what I want to record
to my inputs. My Mackie 1202-VLZ did this via "Alt Outs." I could
press a button on a channel, and only that channel went to the alt
outputs, meaning I could listen to the whole mix on my mixer and only
record what I wanted to.
So the obvious answer here is "buy another Mackie," but they are a
little pricey. If I can get out cheap, or maybe buy a higher quality
mixer used, I would do that. I've looked into Behringer mixers, but
they don't seem to be able to do the alt output trick. Also, there
are a lot of digital mixers on eBay (EZ-Bus, Tascam, Roland, Yamaha
01-V) that look good and only cost around $300 or less.
Any opinions? What are you guys using in your home studios?
I use Ardour and a Delta1010 (with some outboard DSP gear and mike
pre-amps). With the Delta1010 and a pair of monitors and a headphone
amp, I find an outboard mixer superfluous. What are you using for your
audio interface?
-- Brett
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