"Mike Scott" wrote in message
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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.