Digital desks

[Hollowcell]

Originally Posted by 303lovesit

I mean do people like myself really need a mixer when i do everything in SX and add all my reverbs and compression with plugs etc!!

I'm gunna answer this one too.

A lot depends on the sort of music you really want to make/record. I wouldn't want to mic up a drum kit running straight into the PC - actually most "real intruments" I'd rather keep on the analogue side of things for as long as possible. eg: using valve compressors and pre amps. It's all personal taste in the end though. I'm no pro and my music reflects that, but I know what makes me happy and in the end that's what it's all about.

Now days digital mixers are very good (but only if you seem to go top of the range). For the money that someone would commonly spend on a digital mixer for the home, I think a nice mutli-in sound card would be much better value - I mean why go through a digital mixing desk, when you are just going to mix digitaly in the computer anyway?

Like I said though, it's all about what makes you happy. Some people really like the clean sound keeping everything digital, and that's cool. Some people like the characture that comes from routing a signal through a bit of analogue gear before the final digital recording.