Spec me a mixer

mobius1

mobius1

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Hey I'm a Music tech A-Level student and I'm wanting to turn my PC into my own mini recording rig (mainly for acoustic/electric guitar) to help me with my course and for my hobby. I was wondering if any of you on here could steer me in the right direction as for what to buy?

I'm looking at a Behringer Xenyx 802 atm (I'm not looking for anything expensive - just something I can learn with etc)

Cheers for any help
 
I've got the exact mixer and it's ample for learning and recording individual instruments like a guitar and vocals for example. Great price and a solid bit of hardware.
 
jonislost said:
I've got the exact mixer and it's ample for learning and recording individual instruments like a guitar and vocals for example. Great price and a solid bit of hardware.
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I've read on a review that you need to buy your own interface seperately - If I already have cubase 5 would that suffice or would I need something so I could use it with cubase?
 
How are you planing on going from the mixer to the PC? IF via audio jack 6.3mm > 3.5mm (into soundcard) then anything will work. This mixer has no USB/Firewire interface.
 
This is the issue I had a few years ago, go down the mixer route or the controller surface. I went for the all in one M-Audio ProjectMix - was fairly pricey but found a steal of a buy for £500 second hand. It's firewire so is essentially my soundcard and has 8 jack/xlr inputs too. Definitely something to consider...
 
Maccy said:
This is the issue I had a few years ago, go down the mixer route or the controller surface. I went for the all in one M-Audio ProjectMix - was fairly pricey but found a steal of a buy for £500 second hand. It's firewire so is essentially my soundcard and has 8 jack/xlr inputs too. Definitely something to consider...
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Yep definitely something to consider, but if this is a first time testing/practice then I think this mixer is a good buy at about £50, then he could sell and upgrade at a later date.
 
Hmm. There are a few Alesis mixers that are USB but I'm not fully amazed by Alesis after buying the 'Guitar Link' which never worked. But I think having to unplug my speakers every time I use it would be annoying so I may look at some of the USB ones.
 
Best thing to do is set yourself a budget, think what you want that to include - just a mixer? And/Or an external USB/Firewire device? Speakers? MIDI keyboard/other controller?
 
mobius1 said:
Hmm. There are a few Alesis mixers that are USB but I'm not fully amazed by Alesis after buying the 'Guitar Link' which never worked. But I think having to unplug my speakers every time I use it would be annoying so I may look at some of the USB ones.
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You wouldn't need to unplug your speakers when using it. The Behringer would go into the line-in or mic-in on your sound card and speakers would remain in the line-out.
 
I guess that's why I like the numark dm-950 that I have, cheap, simple 2 channel mixer, but with the advantage of twin usb in/out

People knock it, but its cheap and cheerful and does me for what I've needed it for..
 
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