Articles relating to Recorder Adat

08 Apr

Author: DJEquip // Category: Denon 5000

The optical cable arrived on the time promised. It works fine. I do not understand why someone would pay more than $2 for the same thing, $00.33 is a great price.

Can someone explain to me the use of a mixing board in recording?
OK… I’m starting to set up my home studio (all hardware, I’m only mastering to computer at the very end) bit by bit, and while I’m educated decently in all of the basics of recording: pre-amps, compressors, effect rackmounts, monitors, mixers, acoustics, cables, recorders, etc, I’m having trouble working out how I would utilise a mixer in the studio, having only used mixerless setups before. It’s probably a very simple answer, but as I’m young and new to recording as an art, I’d appreciate help greatly.Let me put it this way: Both as a solo musician playing each individual part, and as a member of a band, I’m going to be putting my mics and instruments through to a Behringer SX3282 mixing board (incidentally, is this the right mixer? I need 24 Recorder Adat tracks and this seems to be of good, affordable quality), which will have line outs to monitors, a rackmount of effects units, and finally, a 24 track Alesis HD24 adat recorder. The recorder, which you may know, can record up to 24 tracks, has 24 1/4inch inputs, 24 1/4inch outputs, and requires a separate mixing board. But the problem is, I don’t know how I’d use a mixing board in this case, because I see the mixer as having two separate functions.1) Mixing together all my inputs – say, if I record my band, that’s four line inputs for drums, one for bass, one for lead guitar, one for rhythm, and two for vocals. Then I mix the various inputs together using the faders, EQ and pan pots, and have a ‘mixed’ signal to be recorded by a separate recorder.2) Acting as a controller for the 24-track Alesis recorder. So I record my 24 tracks onto the recorder, in whatever way possible, and then use the mixer to control levels, panning and EQ for each track.I understand that for the second method I’ll need to plug my inputs (instruments, mics) into the mixer, which will then go into the recorder, which will then put its outputs back into the mixer, so I can listen to results through the monitors, and adjust the individual tracks. But… I have no idea how I would use both concepts at the same time, i.e. the idea of the mixer as a system through which my inputs are mixed down, versus the idea of the mixer as the controller for the Alesis recorder.So I have no idea just how I would work this out. Help would be appreciated, I’m sure this is a really stupid question, but I need to know before I get into buying anything. Many thanks.
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