attention audiophiles...

[agentrayevyn]

This is mainly a post for people like stingmeyer, fleetfootmike, djdavejumpers, and all of you wonderful people involved in recording music to some degree

Comments

[agentrayevyn]

I like your thinking. I was about to make this entry solely on "which one would be better" but then I realized that the Edirol doesn't have XLRs and that's another thing I was going for. I'm guessing that would plug into the interface audio in, right? And this would also let me upgrade mixers later if need be and the interface wouldn't be obsolete.

jeremiahx suggested something like this: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=rec/search/detail/base_pid/701369/
which looks like it would be what you're suggesting all in one box. I just did the math and either way I go it would cost the same. That one just looks... a little confusing. What are your thoughts?

[agentrayevyn]

I like the separate mixer idea... it separates the mixer from the interface visually, which gives me one less thing to screw up. Having the two of them combined leaves me stuck with that same hardware and confuses me as to what I'm doing with it.

I like this idea. I like it a lot. You know me better than I thought you did.

[jeremiahx]

Since I really don't know your expertise level I want to appologize in advance if I am explaining things that may look condesending :-)

M-Audio makes a $199 USB option that would be great... I actually suggested this for a friend in the same situation... iBook G4 running GB.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=rec/search/detail/base_pid/701369/

XLR are balanced round looking connections... Most mics and some keyboards have outputs of those. Next is the 1/4 inch "guitar" input that a keyboard would output.

I would suggest getting 2 mics and hooking them directly to the M-Audio and recording the piano in stereo and then doing the vocals seperate. It will allow you to record the vocals in a better situtation and keep noise down.

Need suggestions on Mics just let me know... jay@cyber-jay.com

BTW if you are ever in Nashville let me know... the guy in the praise band at my church plays a B3... :-)

J.J.

[agentrayevyn]

I'm a bare bones beginner at this... I went into this a year ago with absolutely no idea what I needed and now I'm a little better off and things are making more sense. A year ago I had no idea that to record you'd need an interface.

Nashville isn't that far... :)

I'll send you an email here in a while...

[djdavejumpers]

Maudio owns.
There is a Firewire device, which has more bandwidth than USB. Always consider Firewire over USB if the price is affordable. Your Mac laptop has firewire port, right?
This supports 24-bit/96kHz audio resolutions, which is pretty good. You will be able to use this for profesional recordings too.
The Front-panel microphone in (XLR) has 48v phantom power (Phantom power is needed if you get a nice cardiod microphone), gain control and clip LED.

It does not have MIDI, though. But neither the Fast Track USB.

[agentrayevyn]

I was originally looking at something with firewire but it's so hard to find stuff with it. At least 3/4 of what I've found is USB... I guess because it works for both Mac and PC and PCs typically don't have firewire. The world would be a better place if they did.

I'm kinda liking the idea of being able to have two mics going at one time...

[djdavejumpers]

If you need to hook this to a PC that does not have firewire, you can add a firewire port, with a PCI card, for like $23.

[djdavejumpers]

here's one for $7 bucks


Or this one for $6.50

On www.pricewatch.com or froogle.google.com search Firewire PCI.