I've been using the Focusrite 2i4 for our band demos, but programming drums and playing individual parts is really disjointed for our band, so we were looking at something that could do all tracks at the same time recording as a full band, giving us options to overdub vox at a later time too.
I've looked and settled on the Focusrite 18i20 as the DAW that I'd need for all drum mics, 2 guitars mic'd up and vocals. Prefer to get the 3rd gen, but 2nd gen is pretty reasonable.
Is this the right kit for the job or are there better alternatives. Price of about £400 seems very reasonable. I record into a macbook pro running Logic.
My other guitar player insists this is the way, as we're way more dynamic live and in terms of just getting good demos recorded it seems like the way to go.
Any advice more than welcome.
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Personally I prefer the saffire pro40 which is basically identical but firewire instead of USB as the latency seems a touch better but this isnt giong to matter for live tracking and firewire cards are getting rarer and rarer.
Personally though Id be surprised if you get as good a quality result tracking everyone at the same time as you would tracking individually to a click.
I found it good for recording rehearsals, and would be great for getting a good basic drum track done as the basis for overdubbing to build up a full track.
If I was setting something up permanently, as in a studio, I would be looking for something more pro, such as Focusrite stuff.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youDef worth considering if you use a PA as well.
A field recorder then transfer files to daw is better for field work.
Luckily the band rack has both in for different purposes
We have also wired up the outputs of the focusrite into the behringer so we get 16 channel recording with customisable IEM mixes but its a bit of a faff..updating to the bigger XR would definitely be nicer in that scenario.