hollunder@xxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:50:06 +0200 > Pieter Palmers <pieterp@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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 > > > Thanks Pieter, > do you happen to know if this is the case for the Mackie Onyx 1640? > I found something on their website about daisy-chaining two of them and > that it only works on Windows right now. Guess that's something else.. I didn't try, but if they support it on windows, we can also do it. Greets, Pieter _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
