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fuzzikitten
Annunaki
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Posted : Jul 23, 2007 22:31
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You see them in all the big studios, hardware behemoths of sliders knobs and mic preamps. Pounds and pounds of metal and plastic, usually positioned smack dab in the middle of the recording environment. Wires and cables snake in and out, bits of tape mark the track names, cool leds blink, the whole mixing desk just emanating serious music writing.
And yet still I am unable to figure out the advantages of a $1k (or way more) mixing desk.
I've cut my teeth in the software environment starting with Reason and then graduating to Cubase. My education on synthesis started with softsynths and only in the past few years have I built up a fleet of hardware to add in to the mix.
I know the advantage of a real knob/slider for the fine tuning. I appreciate the hands-on aspect of real gear.
But if one is not using a lot of live instruments or hardware, does a mixing desk offer any advantages to Cubase's mixer?
Additionally, if I want to route my tracks out of my computer through the mixing desk and then to the monitors, wouldn't I need a soundcard with many many outputs?
Come one come all, weigh in on what advantages you feel a big Mackie 32:8 mixing desk offers over software mixing. Educate me, please. Better control over the track volumes? Analogue warmth? Or do they just look COOL?
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SecretHero
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Posted : Jul 23, 2007 22:45
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On 2007-07-23 22:31, fuzzikitten wrote:
You see them in all the big studios, hardware behemoths of sliders knobs and mic preamps. Pounds and pounds of metal and plastic, usually positioned smack dab in the middle of the recording environment. Wires and cables snake in and out, bits of tape mark the track names, cool leds blink, the whole mixing desk just emanating serious music writing.
And yet still I am unable to figure out the advantages of a $1k (or way more) mixing desk.
I've cut my teeth in the software environment starting with Reason and then graduating to Cubase. My education on synthesis started with softsynths and only in the past few years have I built up a fleet of hardware to add in to the mix.
I know the advantage of a real knob/slider for the fine tuning. I appreciate the hands-on aspect of real gear.
But if one is not using a lot of live instruments or hardware, does a mixing desk offer any advantages to Cubase's mixer?
Additionally, if I want to route my tracks out of my computer through the mixing desk and then to the monitors, wouldn't I need a soundcard with many many outputs?
Come one come all, weigh in on what advantages you feel a big Mackie 32:8 mixing desk offers over software mixing. Educate me, please. Better control over the track volumes? Analogue warmth? Or do they just look COOL?
-fk
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You’ll need a sound card with multiple outs for sure. I just recently posted a thread about getting a mixing board. You might want take a look at it.
http://forum.isratrance.com/viewtopic.php/topic/112420/forum/2
I remember reading a post somewhere out there made by OTT (it was while back), mixing in PC vs mixing on hardware mixers. He prefers mixing on hardware mixers. Again he might be using a quality mixing desk (maybe not…this guy can make killer sounds with cheap stuff too).
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