I need help choosing equipment

Posted on Apr 26, 2006 11:17 am
Freak
Member Since: Apr 26, 2006

Hi,

I am nre to the recording and I am setting up a basic studio at home. I just bought a Macbook Pro and now I am looking at an audio interface. I am on a limited budget (around 400$ USD) for the interface and I am contempling a few possibilities. What I need is to have at least 2 audio input with XLR plugs (more would be great, but I'd rather have less ins but more quality). I will mostly record audio (vocal, guitar and bass) with drums in midi and (sometimes) some midi for piano or other instrument fills. So far I am looking at:

-Digidesign Mbox2
-M-audio firewire 410
-Presonus firebox
-Alesis Multimix 8

I'd like to have your opinions.
At the same time, I'd like to hear about sequencers, as it might have an impact on my choice of interface. The Mbox come with pro tools LE, some others come with Sonar LE. My question was are those light version complete enough to do something decent? I was thinking maybe I could for now use garageband2 and later (when I have more money) move to logic express or logic pro to have more feature. What do you think?

Thank you very much for your precious help

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