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It will be in a small room, (8 x 18) I nedd some thing cheap (I saw a peavy 6 track mixxer for $145-that kind of cheap) so I can record drums (could do drum factory for them), guitar, bass and vox (of course recored at differnt times) with out breaking a budget. Also what is a good laptop or cpu for mixxing and makeing a cd? Any hhelp will be awsome.

If you are doing it really cheap, I would invest in @ least one Audio Technica Boundary microphone. It'll pick up the whole room and you would have to experiment with amp and speaker placement instead of moving the mic. , or if your going direct this wouldn't be necessary of course. I would also make up some bass traps ...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyYUpkpL ... re=related ... otherwise you'll have a Nightmare from the walls and corners. Also , try to remember that all corners will boost your mids as well , this is a recording trick used by the old bluesman eric johnson inj his Sunn Stduios recording sessions. research that and see if that may help alleviate some unforseen problems. An 8X18 room can be wonderfull to work with as long as you don't end up taking away the emoptional impact in the computer later. I always prefer to hear crappy recording quality in the master compared to wimpy over-engineering sterility . But hey, what do I know? Make this CD for yourself, I'm just throwing around the crap I've got in my head in here, seeing if any of it sticks on the virtual walls.

post script : if you don't already have a computer, you can check into an old BOSS BR recorder, some of them have built in CD burners and they are going cheaper than some laptops nowadays. Never used one though so I don't know how durable they are . might even replace the mixer you are looking @ as well!

Best of Luck, Give 'em Hell !

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HAHAHA , more crap just came to mind. If you are gonna go direct, then check out the Radial Re-amping box, that way you can run the direct track out into your amps,find the perfect amplifier to microphone tone and blend some of that live punch you are used to hearing back in another track as well.

I got one of these: Behringer-XENYX-1202-Mixer - only $80, accepts both balanced and unbalanced inputs, fx send.

If your computer has a line-in, you could probably go from the board right to that. mine only had a mic-in, so I got a cheap USB interface. mine's an edirol ua-1ex, but there are a lot of options under $200. there are definitely drawbacks with this setup (latency for sure) and you may be better off getting a digital 4-track or something if you don't already have a computer.

I use Reaper for recording/mixing. I like it a lot and it's cheap (free to try).