Need gear advice please
Hello,
I've been taking some time off for awhile now from recording music mainly because of time and money issues....but now that I'm getting those straightened out I'm wanting to get back into it. I'd like to describe what I have in my gear so far, and then talk about what I'm going to be getting in the near future and I would love some opinions as to if it will be a decent setup.
Already have:
AKG C2000B Microphone
Mackie 1202
Behringer compressor
Alesis RA-100 Amp
Alesis Monitor One MK2 speakers
....microphone runs into Mackie which then runs into a Creative Labs Audigy (I know!)
AMD 4000+ computer with 1.5 gigs RAM
Sonar 4
Yamaha keyboard with midi hooked into Audigy.
Here's what I'm adding.....
M-Audio Audiophile 192 (it's what I can afford and has the kind of inputs I'm looking for)
And I've heard that a better microphone for the money compared to my AKG is the AudioTechnica 2020
Oh, and I'm also wanting to keep the Audigy for purely being able to still use soundfonts in my music, since I have a huge collection of soundfonts already.
So now I'd be running the mic into the Mackie, and then into the M-Audio, and going from the M-Audios outputs back into the Mackie for monitoring.
So that's what I'm thinking about. Any thoughts on this setup? Thanks a bunch!