"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Ah - thanks. 12 sub groups on what is effectively a 12 channel mixer?

Are you counting on your fingers? :-)
As stated earlier it has 16 input channels, twelve of
which have phantom.

In music recording there are many sources that need no microphone
(and so no phantom) - Bs guitar can be DI, as can rhythm gtrs,
keyboards, drum machines etc. Some of these use a self powered
DI box, or plug straight into the console.

So 16 into 24 is ideal. One puts down drums and bass first
- that's eleven channels -I'll leave you to work that out - and then
continue with overdubs, keys, strings, brass, woods, percussion
and vocals, separately, often one or two channels only at a time.

Iain