Firewire Interface for recording drums..

[mpodanny]

Hello

 

I'm sort of new to recording for a full band. Usually with my band i have been going to a studio to lay drums down and then transferring the drum tracks to my laptop into logic and then recording there rest of the instruments with my Firewire interface which has one mic input.

 

Now i want to start recording the drums ourselves and wondered what Firewire interface would be good. I've been looking at the Presonus FP10 firepod. Will this allow me to plug it into my Firewire in my laptop and create separate tracks in logic for each input on the firepod, so i can have a separate track of each drum that's mic'd up?

 

Hope this makes sense. Any help would be much appreciated

[fuzzfilth]

You can't connect a Firepod via USB, it needs Firewire. And to my knowledge any audio interface with more than 2 I/Os will run on either Firewire or PCIe, not USB. It's simply too slow for that task.

 

Christian

[mpodanny]

Well firewire is fine also.

 

Haha sorry not down with all the lingo. My laptop has a firewire port anyway.

[chrisrnps]

1) Yes, something like the FP10 should work fine for that task.

 

2) There are actually a bunch of multichannel USB audio interfaces on the market now - they just have to be "USB 2.0" to be fast enough, and you usually can't have anything else on the same USB bus (especially not anything that's USB 1.1, which drags the whole bus down to 1.1 speed) or they won't work reliably. For those of us doing music, we usually already have a bunch of other USB peripherals hooked up already (MIDI interfaces, synths and keyboard controllers with MIDI-over-USB, fader controller boxes, printers, SmartCard readers, dongles, thumb drives, and whatever else) that FireWire is a much better option for the audio interface.

[mpodanny]

Thanks very much! I think that's what i'll go for