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the title basically asks the question. I'm setting up a home studio and I want to get a good mixing board at the cheapest possible price (understanding these things are usually pretty expensive). I'll be recording 100% electronic music as well as 100% "real" instruments, and everywhere in between.

I've been looking at the "Allen & Heath AH-ZED-14 14-Channel Mixer with USB Interface" any suggestions?

any help would be greatly appreciated!
thank you

It says its usb, dose that mean that it will give you a individual output for every channel or will it just give you the master out?

If its not then I would save for something better. You really need like a 8-16 channel desk, you know one with A/B select on every channel so you can run A as you input and B as your output(B).

If your doing that you will also need something like this so you can use the desk properly
http://www.avid.com/US/products/HD-IO/Specifications

Thats a audio interface with enough inputs and outputs.

Hey Alex whatsup man

Here's the one I was telling to about, the relatively cheap Yamaha one. 8 inputs should be good enough for you right? It's got sends and returns so you can use hardware delays and reverbs etc

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000Z7567A

Sonika is making friends yay!!!!

Is this the guy who doesn't know what headroom is?

I've been looking at the behringer junt. 8 channels with motorized faders and maybe some knobs too. In b4 behringers shit, sometimes it's a sweet perfume.

nowaysj wrote:Is this the guy who doesn't know what headroom is?

nope different guy

drake89 wrote:In b4 behringers shit, sometimes it's a sweet perfume.

Haha, that will break in 1-2 months. I broke my behringer ban and got a turntable preamp, no moving parts, no buttons, nothing... 1-2 months broken... how do you do that, there are NO moving parts. Anyway, a fool and his money.

http://www.guitarcenter.com/Yamaha-MG10 ... 1172628.gc

JUST posted this another thread...but I got myself sorted for a bill and I'm pretty happy...I'm mostly using this to bounce from the box in to cassette, VHS, record vinyl samples...run stuff through my Korg monotron delay etc.

forget the mixer. get yourself a decent i/o w/ good preamps. you'll rarely need more than 2 ins at any given time; anything from the motu ultralite to the metic halo uln-2 would get the job done.

and yes, apogee duet.

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If you're going usb/digital then I'd agree might as well just skip to a good i/o and preamps.
If I were going to get an outboard mixer again, I'd get something with nice EQs that can be run hot and sound nice, likethe older Soundcraft line like the Spirits http://www.soundcraft.com/products/archived.aspx
or one of the Mackies like (maybe the smaller models) http://www.mackie.com/products/sr32-4vlzpro/


Both were/are staples in electronic music, and can be found for a few hundred these days.