Yes, I think its actually cheaper though to get a good sound card with one
input and stick with the alresady understood mixer system rather than use on
screen soft mixing as one has to also look at the recording for putting in
track breaks to save later editing time on a tight turn around.

Brian

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Any ideas please on the cheapest and/or best way of getting 6 channels of
microphones connected to a laptop?

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We don't really need a full mixer - my thoughts are to get the signals in
and do any needed switching or mixing in software, possibly bespoke.

Any other thoughts and pointers welcome.


There seems to be a conflict between these two sentences. Do you want to
input 6 microphones *at the same time*?. If so you do need to do the
mixing before the signals get into the laptop. Only if you are happy to
record from each microphone one at a time can you use software mixing.

There are now plenty of small, cheap audio mixers with USB output which
you can simply plug into a laptop and use whichever of the audio editing
software packages available that suits. Bespoke software won't be
necessary (unless you enjoy writing your own).

David.