Help choosing a basic mixer!

[Lojong]

Hi everyone!

Before all, sorry for my poor english and congratulations for this amazing synth comunity!!

It´s my first post, and I start with a request for help!

I have a Pc (where I use Ableton), a Edirol Pcr-m50, m-audio firewire solo, speakers m-audio bx8a, a Shecter electric guitar and a roland mc-505!

And i'm looking for a mixer to, principally, connect the mc-505 using the direct 1 and direct 2 outputs, the pc and the guitar!

The budget is low (120/130€ max). I saw a yamaha mg10/2 here for 80€. it will be sufficient? Can I connect a pioneer efx-500 to her to?!

Thanks for your time guys! I´m kinda new on this!!

[Stab Frenzy]

Yeah the Yamaha MG series are great little mixers for the money, highly recommended at that pricepoint.

If I were you I'd get something with a few more inputs that you need right now, as you don't want to find yourself needing to buy another mixer if you get more gear. I'd be looking at the 12/4 or 16/4, or maybe one of the ones with internal fx. Also they've just updated the range and some of the new ones have some nice features like compression, I'd check them out if I were you.

You might want to get a DI to plug your guitar into the mixer with cause it needs a high impedence input, and even then it's going to sound funny cause you won't have the lower bandwidth and natural EQ of a guitar amp. You can get a more natural sound by running it through an amp sim like a line 6 pod or an adrenalinn, or just by running it through a distortion pedal.

Lastly you can connect that fx unit to it no probs.

[Altitude]

Soundcraft compact series are good front ends for daws and have a dedicated recording bus, great monitoring options, and hi z inputs for your guitar if you want to run it directly in

[tallowwaters]

already been done, this thread was halfway down the page
http://www.vintagesynth.org/phpBB2/view ... hp?t=34080

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