Selecting Hardware for Music Production

[Sean Darby]

That's an interesting mixer, I've never heard of "Allen and Heath". I'm
looking for either Yamaha or Mackie, probably not Alesis. Hopefully
there is a fairly small board with a good price tag, appropriate for a
small home recording studio. I found a Yamaha for ~$100, though am
willing to go a little higher if necessary, though would like to keep it
pretty low (in the 100 range) if it is possible.

Does anybody know of a decent, probably small, Yamaha or Mackie mixer
(that connects to computers) that is close to the $100 price tag?

If there is a board that can either USB or firewire into the computer,
then would I still need something like the EMU 1616M?

Is there a less expensive variation of the EMU 1616M available?

Thanks!



On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 12:46 -0400, Karlheinz Noise wrote:
> > What would be some good internal and external hardware/devices to
> use
> > with a make-shift/budget home recording studio?
> 
> One other option to consider: Many mixers nowadays have USB audio
> built into them. Several of the Behringers do this, and there are a
> couple of flavors of Alesis MultiMix mixers also.
> 
> If you can up your budget a little bit, Allen and Heath have a nice
> mixer for around $400 that has USB audio:
> http://www.zzounds.com/item--AAHZED14
> 
> I do not own any of these however, and I can't tell you how easy these
> are to set up under UbuStu. I know at least one person on this list
> has one of the Alesis mixers - care to chime in?
> 
> -Karlheinz
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