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

hollunder@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:50:06 +0200
> Pieter Palmers <pieterp@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
>> hollunder@email-addr-hidden wrote:
>>> 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'?
>> 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
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