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Member Since: Mar 27, 2006

Hello all,

I think I've stumbled on a gold mine considering the information contained by the members of this site. WOW!
Anyway, I lead worship at our local church and my tasks involve........ well, most anything that has to do with sound, including music, speaking or whatever. I would like to produce a CD using as much of our current system as possible. We do have a fairly nice house system and we record sermons onto our computer, but I would like to record multi-tracks (instruments and vocals) to my computer. I have a variety of software options (Cool Edit Pro, Cakewalk, etc) and I can use them with a certain level of skill, but I'm stumped as to how to affordably get up to 8 different channels from my Mackie 24/4 to my computer in a multi-track form.

Any help would be great!! Please go easy on me if I seem a bit ignorant. I am. Oh yea, I don't have any dreams of doing this professionaly. We just want to make something nice for our church.
Scotty

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Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002


Mar 27, 2006 02:11 pm

Welcome to HRC.

The first thing you need is a sound card with 8 inputs...the M-Audio Delta 1010 would be a good option...but, be warned those card with more than 4 inputs get pricey.

Czar of Midi
Administrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002


Mar 27, 2006 10:39 pm

Agree with dB. An audio interface such as he mentioned would be a good start.

What version of Cakewalk do you have?

And seeing as you have a Mackie 4 buss mixer you will have an easy way to route 4 channels to the computer. There are ways though to route the other 4 as well from that same mixer, just a little more involved is all.

Member
Since: Mar 27, 2006


Mar 28, 2006 09:13 am

Awesome, I'll be looking into a sound card today. What about these interfaces like Tascam or others sell? Could I plug my channels into that (from the board)and then USB to the computer? Is that an affordable direction to go, if even possible? They say that you then have better control over your software mixer. Also, I guess the Cake Walk didn't get installed on the new computer. I've been using CoolEdit Pro 2.1 to produce radio commercials and I also have Acid Pro 4.0, but I'm not as familiar with it as I am with CoolEdit. Is the cake Walk program better than these others?
Thanks,
Scotty

Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002


Mar 28, 2006 09:19 am

It's all what works for you, for me, I stick with Cakewalk Sonar cuz thats what I know and am used to, I don't know CoolEdit, for you, you know CoolEdit, stick with it (but upgrade to Adobe Audition when you can Adobe bought CoolEdit and apparantly did good stuff with it)

Acid Pro 4 I believe can only record one track at a time can't it? I might be wrong there though.

Just use what you know, if it works for you, then it's good.

if you wanna record that many tracks at once, I don't think I'd go USB if you don't have to, it's a bandwidth thing...the Delta I mentioned is a PCI card with greater bandiwdth and stability moving that much data...

In my opinion...

Member
Since: Mar 27, 2006


Apr 03, 2006 01:57 am

Thank you so much!!

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