Is this a fast enough laptop for hooking it up to a mixer to recording drums?
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Hi, how can you plug the mixer into the laptop? I don't recommend the sound card onboard to record because maybe you experiment some latency when you record. The laptop is ok, but you need to buy adicional parts to optimize the latency, one of those is an external sound card and also one ssd disk to replace the default hard disk. For record i recommend a m-audio card, good luck!
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It should work fine, just be sure that the 1/8 right angle plug will go into your laptop all the way. But I would suggest getting a straight ended cable instead of the right angle as some laptop designs interfere with the right angle plug. Please note: This will not give you stereo to your mixer, it will combine L & R channels. You need 2 XLRs to get stereo - Here is the link to a cable that will give you true stereo: Hosa CYX-403M Stereo Breakout Cable, 3.5 mm TRS to Dual XLR3M - 3 m / 9.8 ft.
2149078
We used it with a roland drum kit to mixcraft in windows with no problem. Just plugged it in and it worked.
1720435
I use it as a preamp between my Intergra receiver to my Carver amp and it sounds great! You can still use it with your laptop as an amp or preamp, however if you are looking for DAC, buy a DAC designed just for that purpose.
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I also got a laptop. I bought a Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 and it works well with MixCraft. At first I was scared 'cuz it didn't recognize the 3rd and 4th inputs from the Focusrite, but I just needed to change some settings in the Preference section, to ASIO and it was solved. Four channels at the same time, which is sufficient for me, for the moment. I also got a Zoom H4N and it also works fine with it. I still havent tried to connect both the Focusrite and the H4n and check if I can do a simultaneos 8-channel recording.
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No longer have this mixer, never used it for recording not sure if it would work simaltaneous multitrack recording.
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If you use a conversion box, yes. This specific model uses an XLR interface because it requires phantom power (three prong, cylindrical shape). You can spend about $100 on a usb conversion box and use this model. I Use an AKAI professional ($250+) which can handle up to 4 mics and 4 outputs ALONG WITH the usb cable. All that said, you can bypass the whole thing and buy an "AT2020 USB". It hooks directly up to the laptop and there's no other equipment to buy. Warning: If you use an AT2020 USB, it will eat up your battery life, you NEED to have your machine plugged in to use it for a long duration. Reason is: the mic takes about 40 volts of power and audio recording and engineering is a processor intensive task (more CPU work = more power being consumed), it also takes a lot of memory so your HDD will be running non stop. If you're using this for fun, get the USB and save the money. If you're looking to get into more serious work, use the XLR as it's compatible with more high end equipment.
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Yes, but it's not really a very good interface for multitracking. It's basically EXPLICITLY for guitar. If you want to multitrack drums or something you CANNOT do that with this. There isn't enough analog I/O (unless you have a mixer with enough channels and at least 2 buses to send those channels out to Pro Tools. But if you have a drum sampler or virtual instrument, yep. Works just fine. It's a full fledged interface.
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As far as I know, yes, I use it to record with a Samson USB mic through Garageband. You might have a power draw issue where you'll need to use a powered USB hub for the mic, but that isn't always the case.
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Without a doubt. Yes. I did however add an Nvidia video card to the computer with 2GB of Ram. Other than that the computer has handled everything I've thrown at it from video editing (HD) to full blown audio studio recording with Native Instruments Komplete, Camel Audio Alchemy, FL Studio, Ableton Live and more... can't go wrong with these guys.
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yes, and quite good one. It is especially good for interviews, recording concerts, musical bands, etc. I recommend to check on youtube.
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As long as you have a DAW.this thing has help me with so many of my productions.its great and it's a good price
1343363
Yes. Get one of these.http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audio/rapco-horizon-ltiglblox-laptop-interface
136259
Yes. But you will need extra software, like Audacity to do so. If you going to capture analog audio then you will need some hardware that will convert analog audio to digital and then send the digital signal to the laptop through an USB port. You can get one from $7.99 to hundreds of dollars. The more you pay the better the quality of audio and more tracks you can capture at one time. PS - Yes the headphone jack is also for a microphone too, but quality of audio will not be professional quality. All professionals convert analog audio to digital before sending to the computer.
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It should work out of the box. It will appear in your DAW as a midi device.
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I won't be of much help to you in this area of using this machine for that! I had bought the Sangean DAR-101 machine to hook up to my mixing amplifier, so I could record my songs on it. And it works wonderful for that purpose. Just go on your search engine and type in "Sangean DAR-101 recording machine reviews", you might find your answer from one of the reviews on there. Sorry I couldn't of been a help to you!!
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It only has midi input and headphone jack, so no USB or some other easier alternative. You will only be able to record audio from it