onyx-firewire for live recording??

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Hi all... Please advise if this would be an utterly idiotic approach:

I use a Mackie powered mixer to do small venue folk music
reinforcement... at most typically a couple of guitars, couple of
vocals. I mix in stereo (send mono to house) and record all our shows
by taking the 2 channel tape out into my laptop line in... with pretty
good results... so much so that I am getting requests to record live
CD's

So I was thinking...

I have a mac G4 powerbook with firewire, fast hard drive, etc..
Why not get the onyx mixer (1620) with firewire option and be able to
capture 8 tracks(or more??) into my laptop to to remix the individual
instruments, adjust stereo position, add effects, eq, or whatever
after the show....

Since I have the laptop, the mixer with firewire could probably be had
for close to $1k, are there other solutions to consider??


Peter
Technical Director
The Traveling Bohemians!
bohemian_at_delete_me_snowcrest_dot_net

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No matter how many channels you buy, you'll always run into a need for more.
Go for the 1640 instead and you'll be able to do jobs you can't with the
1620. If you ever get the call or take those types of calls. On a personal
basis I can't stand seeing a mixer with only half the channels having mic
inputs! <g> After all these years of having the Spirit F1 sitting here, I
just couldn't stand looking at only 8 inputs so I gave it to a tech friend
of mine. That way I can always bum it if I need it, but it's not sitting
around here buggin' me! <g>

Otherwise your plan sounds like it fits the Mackie design for the mixer.
Just don't let recording get in the way of your playing. I'd rather be the
guy up on the stage instead of at the FOH position changing tapes (or
whatever).

--


Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio
http://blogs.salon.com/0004478/

"bohemian" <alias@snowcrest.net> wrote in message
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> Hi all... Please advise if this would be an utterly idiotic approach:
>
> I use a Mackie powered mixer to do small venue folk music
> reinforcement... at most typically a couple of guitars, couple of
> vocals. I mix in stereo (send mono to house) and record all our shows
> by taking the 2 channel tape out into my laptop line in... with pretty
> good results... so much so that I am getting requests to record live
> CD's
>
> So I was thinking...
>
> I have a mac G4 powerbook with firewire, fast hard drive, etc..
> Why not get the onyx mixer (1620) with firewire option and be able to
> capture 8 tracks(or more??) into my laptop to to remix the individual
> instruments, adjust stereo position, add effects, eq, or whatever
> after the show....
>
> Since I have the laptop, the mixer with firewire could probably be had
> for close to $1k, are there other solutions to consider??
>
>
> Peter
> Technical Director
> The Traveling Bohemians!
> bohemian_at_delete_me_snowcrest_dot_net

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If size and weight were a concern, then someone is buying for the wrong
reasons! <g> I'm looking at picking up another set of SR speakers, and the
Servodrive speakers I tried were pretty good, but I'm going to have to jump
up to about 130 lbs per speaker to get what I want (plus a sub, which from
Servodrive is going to be humongeous at 195 lbs). Just means proper
management of how I move them. Certainly a small mixer's weight shouldn't
be a purchasing decision buster.

--


Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio
http://blogs.salon.com/0004478/

"Kurt Albershardt" <kurt@nv.net> wrote in message
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> Roger W. Norman wrote:
> > No matter how many channels you buy, you'll always run into a need for
more.
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> Agreed.
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> > Go for the 1640 instead and you'll be able to do jobs you can't with the
> > the 1620.
>
> You also get two additional aux sends and inserts for the main L&R outs.
However, it costs 66% more and is noticeably bigger/heavier.
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