to buy a mixer or not

Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:18 pm

hi everyone

i recently opened a small home studio oriented to demo recording.
and have recevied positive feedback from my work but, things in
the buisness area arent happening, lots of people says they are
interested and would come the next week to start recording but
then they dissaper. and im not sure about what m i doing wrong
in the process.

in my equipment i count with a

layla 3g 8 channel pci card
focusrite octa pre LE preamp
several sm57s a beta 52 several audix
a couple of studio proejcts c4 a shure sm7b

but no mixer
i didn`t find the necesity of buying one
y record the drums on 8 tracks trough the preamp and then the layla

but im starting to think if people get scared by the absence of a mixer
so im thinking in the posibility of buying one just for the fact of making
people more atractted to it.

but i find it kind of dumb of buying somehting that wont improve your
sound. so i would like to know if yhou have any reasons to recomend me
of why buying a mixer or any tip related to my "problem"

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:23 am

yep, i'm facing the same problem.
The answer is to buy a used mixer off e ebay or any other place, if posiblle a cheap one but with a famous brand name on it(i would sugest a Mackie vlz 1604 or something similar). You don't have to even use it, just turn it on and turn on all the lights and buttons so it would look cool Smile

and some times turn some knobs and faders up and down to impress the folks
U can even use it as a monitor mixer...yep

Good Luck

Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 5:00 am

maybe get a control surface for your DAW? then you can impress people with your "digital" "mixer"?

especially flying faders are very good for impressing people...
just a thought

twon

Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 12:16 pm

Perhaps this little story will help you make a decision?

In 1973, I was hired by the largest recording studio in Maryland as a production engineer for simple A/V oriented stuff. I was only 17 and still in high school. My boss, the owner of Flight 3 Recordings, also recorded all of the Baltimore Symphony's concerts. He told me that he used to hang 8 microphones over the orchestra but he confided in me that he generally only used the front 3. He told me the rest was there to baffle them with BullShit!

Still, I think having a general-purpose mixer is a good asset.

Unfortunately, they don't come in my favorite colors.
Ms. Remy Ann David

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