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Hi everyone, I'm brice and am new to this forum.

I would like to record at the most needed 8 mics/tracks at once for drums and/or live bands. I want to eventually use all seperate mic preamps and don't want to use mixer pres. My question is what can I use for a mixer that has 8 line/ mic inputs that can go stereo into my firebox interface (using the stereo line inputs in the back)? I would like to get the best quality solution for under $1000.

My gear for this setup so far is...
Apple G5 Imac 1 gig ram 1.6 processor
PreSonus Firebox (using garageband and Cubase le)
Marshall 990 Mic
Shure SM58 (mics will be expanding in the future)
MoreMe Studio headphones

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sproll Fri, 04/01/2005 - 12:58

Now, I'm new at this stuff but from what I understand you want to mixdown the drums to stereo (2 tracks) and then run into your interface?

As far as I know, you would want to use a mixer for that. I don't think you can get an 8 channel mic preamp that will do pan, eq, levels, and mix down to left and right all in one box. Maybe you can, I dunno. Anyone?

anonymous Fri, 04/01/2005 - 13:54

Mackie Onyx 1620 -> $779 if you go somewhere and work them (ie Guitar Center) you can get it down to like 6 hundo.

8 mic pres, stereo out. eq. perfect for what you are asking to do.

p.s. why did u get the firebox btw? just curious. i keep seeing these things and they are the same price as the mbox. not sure why someone would choose it over the mbox.

steve

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