Careful what you wish for.
Multitrack recording on these newfangled digital mixers can be a blessing or a curse, depending on what your needs are. If you really, seriously, intend to do a polished multitrack mixdown of a show for promotional reasons like YouTube audio or a live CD, it can be a blessing. These digital mixers -- especially the ones that have no-hassle internal multitrack recording -- are
amazing for that.
If you use it to record every gig and your band mates expect polished mixdowns from all those separate files on every single gig, good or bad.... "
hey, can you raise the sound of my bass?... that's something else entirely.
Mixdown from multitrack, and final mastering for the intended use, is a ton of work. Seriously, a
ton of work after a performance. If your band mates just want a recording of the gig, you'd be better off with a straight 2-track mains capture of the mixer, with no mixdown. If you really do need a full pre-fader, pre-EQ, and pre-FX multitrack capture, then go for it. Just realize what's involved, once you have all those separate .WAV files on your computer.
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