i just can't make up my mind!

Posted on Feb 17, 2004 10:30 pm
ug2102
Member Since: Feb 03, 2004

i think i've been bugging you guys about this enough, but i really just can't decide about how to set up my DAW. i'm going to give the complete situation, and you tell me which option you think is best. as of now i only have mic's and a computer with no good soundcard. i have 2 sm 57's, 1 sm 58, 1 seinheiser dynamic mic and 2 akg c-1000s'. oh i also have a presonus pre-amp. i need to be able to record live drums, i've abandoned the idea of recording my whole band live, because the cost of enough mic's etc is just not worth it. maybe down the line at some point that will be possible. but i want to record drums live and have enough inputs on my sound card to use a maximum of 6 mic's that will all record to separate tracks into cubase. more than that i feel is overkill.

my budget for all equipment other than mic's is 1000. at the same time i don't want to invest in any dead-end hardware that will become useless as i upgrade. the two options that i'm seriously considering are either to get the aardvark direct q10 or get a delta 1010 and a mixer. at first i thought the aardvark was a good bet, but i don't know how much i like the idea of not having a mixer, plus if i bought a mixer that could always be useful to my band for live applications or something. the aardvark is $830, and the delta 1010 is $600 so if i bought a decent mixer it wouldn't be too much more than the aardvark. am i wrong in leaning towards the delta + mixer solution? are there other solutions in my price range that i'm missing? and if you guys do support the delta + mixer solution, which mixer should i get? i keep hearing such great things about the behringers but they don't seem to have enough outputs. should i use 2 behringers in conjunction?

i know this is a long post, and you guys have answered some of these questions before, but for some reason i just can't decide what i should do, and i figured if i laid out my entire situation, your combined decades and decades of experience would be able to help. you guys don't know how thankful i am for all of this, this site is amazing.

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