Re: [LAU] Looking for a mixer, 16+ channels

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:10:40 +0200
Arnold Krille <arnold@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Am Montag, 14. Juli 2008 schrieb hollunder@email-addr-hidden:
> > 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'?

Best Regards,
        Philipp
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