I am in the process of building a project studio in my garage. I have 1 fairly large room. I am building my studio around my macbook pro and need some advice. I have been using cubase w/ 2 motu 8pres to get 16 simultaneous firewire tracks but now i am switching to protools. WHat is the best solution to get 16 simultaneous firewire into protools? Im also on a fairly tight budget. I have looked at the Mackie Onyx 1640i and it seems to be the cheapest option at this point. Has anybody used one of these? Would it be better to use my yamaha mg32 14fx mixer going into 2 mackie 2626? As for studio design what would be the best way to minimize bleeding through the mics? The usually session i have consists of drums, 2 guitars, bass, 2 keyboards, sax and 2 vocals. I have the bass and guitar amps both mic w/ sm57 and they are placed next to eachother separated by a large pice of plywood with sound absorbing foam. Untill now i have not isolated the drums at all which leads to some bleed into the other

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I have the bass and guitar amps both mic w/ sm57 and they are placed next to eachother separated by a large pice of plywood with sound absorbing foam.

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I can see why the JX series was adapted to for Jazz guitar...at least that's what i announce on the internet....the bath moderate is improve....i even like plugging my guitar without delay into the amp without effects, cranking up the input 'mass' and keeping the strength tome at 9'o'clock leaning, cut back the treble and help the bass shed weight....and then there is even reverb!!! I condign am not unfailing which fount it is....I dubiety it's digital, but possibly...a tacky 12 bit digital reverb by todays standards was state of affairs of the art in 1980....possibly it's a lengthy analogue 'pail brigade' course made to emmulate a reverb implication....i foist i knew what to look for under the hood, but if it isn't a spring reverb, i straight won't discern.

Source: reporting back on the Yamaha JX-15 amplifier....