newbie help: choosing a mixer

[doohdoohhead]

Hello all,

I am totally new to recording. And I would greatly appreciate your advice on a couple of questions I have!

Can anyone recommend a decent inexpensive mixer? I would like the mixer for live use ( for a rock band set up) as well as for recording.


Do I still need an audio interface if I buy a mixer? (if I want to record to my Mac using garage band)

ANyway, thanks for the help and anything else you may want to throw in is more than welcome!

-DDH

[Stephen]

If you don't need powered mixer, the Behringer mixers are inexpensive, and do the job, I have two.
I also have an Alesis Multimix Firewire 8, it was a couple hundred bucks, but the firewire drivers are not so good, at least the first few attempts.

Something like this; http://www.zzounds.com/item--BEHXENYX1204FX for example, is very affordable, and has good features.
These; http://www.zzounds.com/item--PHOHB12PLUS get good reviews also.

If you're recording audio into your Mac, you could use the Mixer as the interface, I do that, a good soundcard is needed though.

I hope this helps.

[Petranelle]

I am a very senior citizen (also new to recording--for my own pleasure). I use a small, inexpensive mixer from DAK.com ($69.95) I think. I don't know if this is what you are looking for--but it works for me.