Hi all,

As I'm new to this forum, I'd like to give a little background about me. I'm a hobbyist who doesn't record/mix/master for commercial use at all.
Just a hobby that went completely out of hand and used solely to track rehearsals and make a "decent" recording once a year.

Band:

• 2 electric guitars running signal through pedal boards
• Semi acoustic guitar, during rehearsals tracked via jack, during recording sessions tracked using mics
• bass running through pedal board: 1 active & 1 passive bass, depending on the sound I want
• Drums
  • Rehearsals: Yamaha DTXpress III ... which sounds awfull by the way! But it does the thing.
  • Recording sessions: multi miced acoustic set (OH's mostly XY or spaced pairs and shells close miced)

  Oboe: miced

• Blues harp: miced and running through a pedal board with DI box at the end of the chain
• Vocals: miced

The goal is to change my setup:

• to gain some space
• to use touchOSC and prevent me from running hence and forth like a horse on speed during rehearsals
• to make use of DSP

Current setup:

• Cubase 10 Pro
• 2 x MOTU 2408 mk3 & 2 x MOTU 2408 mk2 (mk2's used rarely)
• SPL Goldmike 9844 going to A&H
• Some outboard effects - cheap and old and used for monitoring only
• Allen & Heath GL2400
  • direct outs going into motu's
  • used for monitor mix, which is routed to PreSonus HP60

  I was wondering if it's a good decision to go all in the box. No more outboard gear.
  I would make use of cuemix and DSP hoping to achieve a decent monitor mix and reduce latency to a minimum. I use effects to make the oboe, harp and vocals sit in the mix nicely and to spice up the mix in general in case it's needed.
  Meanwhile, I would record the sessions in Cubase.

  Questions:

  • Would the above be a good decision?
  • Will I be able to control Cubase and cuemix using TouchOSC at "the same" time? I was thinking that switching templates might do the thing, but I have no experience whatsoever.
  • Do I have to take high/low impedance inputs into account?
    • I read that the motu's have an onboard jumper to switch inputs between high and low impedance
    • If so, which of the above instruments should be switched to high impedance? (I told you i'm a hobbyist :barefoot:)

    Are there other things I really have take into account?

  Any advice is very welcome. It's not that I'm too lazy to do research, cause i did.
  It's just my humble opinion that feedback based upon experience is of much more value than reading an article.
  I also want to prevent the effort of changing the setup, leading me to switch back to the original setup a few days later.

  Many many thanks in advance for your feedback. Even calling me a fool for asking or even thinking about the above will be perceived as valuable feedback.

  Cheers!