Beginner mixer?

[My96z]

What is a good beginner mixer that can record?

I am looking for somthing that I can plug in my guitar at home and record a few tracks, but also somthing that I can eventually plug a garage band into and burn some CDs or MP3s. I am thinking an 8-track would give me a bit of room to grow.


My bass player friend has a older 4-track Yamaha cassette (MT-50) and that thing is alot of fun. But I want somthing thats a bit newer (cassettes are getting hard to find lol). But it needs to be simple and straight forward. I have Cubase 5 software that came bundled with my Zoom pedal but that seems pretty complicated. I would rather have somthing where I can fiddle with sliders and knobs.

I am new to this recording stuff and was hoping you guys could give me some reccomendations. Somthing not too exspensive also, I am not looking for too many frills.


Thanks!

Jeff

 

[ozzynotwood]

Re: Beginner mixer?

What is a good beginner mixer that can record?

I am looking for somthing that I can plug in my guitar at home and record a few tracks, but also somthing that I can eventually plug a garage band into and burn some CDs or MP3s. I am thinking an 8-track would give me a bit of room to grow.


My bass player friend has a older 4-track Yamaha cassette (MT-50) and that thing is alot of fun. But I want somthing thats a bit newer (cassettes are getting hard to find lol). But it needs to be simple and straight forward. I have Cubase 5 software that came bundled with my Zoom pedal but that seems pretty complicated. I would rather have somthing where I can fiddle with sliders and knobs.

I am new to this recording stuff and was hoping you guys could give me some reccomendations. Somthing not too exspensive also, I am not looking for too many frills.


Thanks!

Jeff

Dont buy the behringer, they sound terrible, they're noisy, and it will break.

 

[El Dunco]

Re: Beginner mixer?

The Zoom MRS-8 might be what you're looking for. Then later on if you're looking to track a whole band the Boss BR-1600CD is a lot more expensive but does a lot more including 8 input simultaneous multi-tracking. If you're just looking to track one to two at a time, the Zoom is probably best suited to your purposes.

 

[DankStar]

Re: Beginner mixer?

Stand alone recorders are becoming a thing of the past, but I like my foster mr-8, and use it every time I record. If you go zoom, might as well get the 16, which doubles as an interface.

I don't think behringer makes recorders, but I had a xenyx mixer and it worked fine. Sounds like you want a stand alone recorder though.

 

[My96z]

Re: Beginner mixer?

I will look into the zoom stuff I like everything else I have came accross of thiers so far.

Dank star how many tracks can the mr-8 record?

 

[El Dunco]

Re: Beginner mixer?

MRS-8 can record up to 8 tracks but not simultaneously it also has one master track to bounce it all down. It can record 2 tracks simultaneously.

 

[Scott Olson]

Re: Beginner mixer?

Get a Mac with an audio interface that has as many channels as you want and use something like ProTools.