If you want to go with a mixer and keep the sound card for now get a mixer that has some kind of group or record out. I used a Behringer 602 for years, and it was very solid. it had control room output and that allowed the mix in the headphones, and the track output to the computer. On my Yamaha the group output does the same.


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