What does a USB mixer actually do?
I am a musician and most of my knowledge is working with live equipment and not so much with recording. I need to record a band playing into a USB mixer, like a normal mixer that plugs into my laptop and will sort the audio into separate tracks for me to edit. Is that the idea of a USB mixer or am i just making equipment up? if it is, what would you recommend for a small band playing mostly guitar, bass, vox and possibly drums? And if this isn’t a USB mixer, does something exist that i described?
Thanks in advance.
Matt – A USB mixer is like a normal mixer but it has USB output in addition to normal analog output. You really need to read the “fine print” when shopping for a USB mixer – many of the cheaper ones DO NOT record the tracks separately. They instead just give you a right/left stereo mix output through the USB cable. To record the tracks separately, you need a recording interface with multiple inputs – those are very expensive.
Anyway, a inexpensive way to do this is to get a normal USB audio interface and connect it to the RCA tape outputs of your normal mixer. That will not give you separate tracks, but it will give you a nice stereo mix from the mixer directly to your computer.
USB interface (comes with recording software):
http://www.zzounds.com/item–LEXALPHA
USB mixer with mix out to USB:
http://www.zzounds.com/item–MACPROFX12
Mixer that can record eight tracks at once:
http://www.zzounds.com/item–TAS2488NEO
Using USB mixers with a PC (not for time coded vinyl / CDs)
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