hollunder@xxxxxx wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:10:40 +0200 > Arnold Krille <arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Am Montag, 14. Juli 2008 schrieb hollunder@xxxxxx: >>> By whole band I mean a rather 'traditional' band setup with like, >>> drums, bass, singer/s, 1-2 guitars, maybe keys. >>> I would guess that 16 channels is plenty for that, except maybe >>> when one wants to mic every single drum separately. >>> His estimation was 16 channels minimum, it doesn't hurt if it's >>> more. >> You should go for 24+ channels. A whole drumset is at least 8 >> channels, if the keyboarder isn't recording the midi, there will be >> additional 2-6 channels for keys. And recording the electric guitars >> clean and through amp/effects doesn't hurt either. For acoustic >> guitars it is good to use at least two mics at different distances >> (provided that they play in their own acoustic booth, otherwise you >> are pretty much fixed on the plugin-signal). And then you said >> something about singers... >> >> The good thing about such a setup (for example with an rme-pci-card >> and three adat-interfaces, or several ffado-supported firewire >> interfaces) is that you get about the same number of outputs. So you >> can create a lot monitor-mixes for the musicians headphones. >> >> Have fun, >> >> Arnold > > Thanks Arnold, > I think it depends a lot on the recording technique, but I guess having > a few spare channels doesn't hurt. > Thanks for the hint with multiple firewire devices, that could be a > solution. If I remember correctly they should have the same timing > 'automagically'? That CAN be the case, but is not necessarily so. Check with the vendors first. If they support it in windows, you can do it with FFADO too. Greets, Pieter _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user