[LAU] Looking for a mixer, 16+ channels

Arnold Krille arnold at arnoldarts.de
Mon Jul 14 06:10:40 EDT 2008


Am Montag, 14. Juli 2008 schrieb hollunder at gmx.at:
> By whole band I mean a rather 'traditional' band setup with like,
> drums, bass, singer/s, 1-2 guitars, maybe keys.
> I would guess that 16 channels is plenty for that, except maybe
> when one wants to mic every single drum separately.
> His estimation was 16 channels minimum, it doesn't hurt if it's more.

You should go for 24+ channels. A whole drumset is at least 8 channels, if the 
keyboarder isn't recording the midi, there will be additional 2-6 channels 
for keys. And recording the electric guitars clean and through amp/effects 
doesn't hurt either. For acoustic guitars it is good to use at least two mics 
at different distances (provided that they play in their own acoustic booth, 
otherwise you are pretty much fixed on the plugin-signal). And then you said 
something about singers...

The good thing about such a setup (for example with an rme-pci-card and three 
adat-interfaces, or several ffado-supported firewire interfaces) is that you 
get about the same number of outputs. So you can create a lot monitor-mixes 
for the musicians headphones.

Have fun,

Arnold
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