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If and when you do try putting the mics directly into the saffire, I think you will find that you'll forget the mixer pretty quickly!



I gotta ask this question of you Scott because 95% of your comments refer to getting rid of equipment.

Do you enjoy running cords? Plugging and unplugging stuff all day long? I much prefer running cables just once and leaving them there forever. Of course, doing it that way makes for a room that looks like a science project gone horribly wrong, but most of the spaghetti is hidden away. And I keep a lot of people employed producing all those cables I have to buy.

Of course I can only speak for myself but I would rather chew broken glass than be changing cabling all day. All my analog stuff runs into a patch bay so when I want to change from sampler to ESQ-1 to Line6 amp to vocal mic to vocoder I only have to change ONE cable: the one that runs from the patchbay to the interface. I keep a drum machine, a vocoder, 4 keyboards, 2 analog sound devices and my guitar amp plugged into a patch bay so just one cable swap sends the right thing to the M-Audio. Personally I don't like soft synths. I gathered the synths and sampler I wanted and I know where my sounds are every time.

I truly AM enjoying using a control surface for mixdown, but for the way I do things I can never get rid of analogs completely. 20 years later I STILL think the Ensoniq synths are the best thing going (gone?) and when one dies (as happened with my EPS 16+ sampler) I will hunt down another one from some other old school rocker who never grew out of what he knows works for him. I prefer to NOT key in MIDI events in favor of actual analog notes that are magnificently created by the additive synthesis in my old Ensoniq boards (6 in total).

Digital absolutely has it's place in manipulation of the sound, but for the creation, I prefer analog.