| Bishopthomas, I think you are right. I did record my own band once from the direct ouputs of the FOH via my Audiofire 12 (put a friend with a laptop and my interface next to the FOH), and one of the channels with the keys actually clipped a few times. Having control of the signals into preamps would be the best indeed.
I just realized that if I buy a Audiofire Pre8, I will only have to add one addional 8ch preamp (OctoPre, Digimax or similar) and plug it into the AF12 to have at least 16 channel with preamps available; the four remaining line inputs in the AF12 could be used for DI's (bass, keys etc.) or maybe room mics via the FOH (easier to have controlled and not that critical).
@steve: now I really get your question. Two daisychained Audiofires will indeed show up as two I/O devices, both recognized by the drivers (daisychaining is supported by Echo Audio). I know Sonar can handle multiple interfaces, and it will even let you assign friendly names (aliases) to the driver i/o names for easy identification. So I don't worry about that part. |