Presonus Inspire: How do I get the most inputs possible?

[billoetjen]

Hi Again Folks,

I just received and started using a Presonus Inspire (scratch & dent sale for $165!!!) with my Apple Powerbook G3 Firewire (Pismo - upgraded to a 550 MHz G4) and a Yamaha mono powered mixer.

Everything seems to work perfectly - dead quiet inputs, fast and latency free even with my old powerbook if I keep the ins and outs simple. For instance, a single bass OR mic plugged in and recording a single track to Garage Band. Headphones plugged in for monitoring.
That's flawless and transparent sounding.

But it doesn't really serve my needs. I'd LIKE to record rehearsals with my 3 (sometimes 4) piece blues band. That means: voice on dynamic mic, acoustic guitar with high-output pup, my passive bass, and maybe a telecaster. We can use a mono Yamaha powered mixer for everything but the bass. Preferred would be voice and acoustic through the mixer, bass and tele through separate dedicated amps.

Can someone suggest a clean-sounding way to record this using the Presonus Inspire?
If it can be done, that would make this piece of hardware one of the most elegant, useful devices to come along!

Thanks in advance,

Bill Oetjen
billoetjen@fastermac.net

[Plain Old Me]

Maybe hook the bass and tele into the two front inputs (out of DIs if you have any or a line out of an amp) and then use the outs from the mixer (which has vox and acoustic guitar) into the line in on the back. You could get everything on a different channel except the vox and acoustic guitar would be on the same. If you had a stereo mixer, you could try panning the vox all left and guitar all right and then you could split them later because the input on the back is a stereo line in.

[Kosko]

You can daisy chain presonus gear together. So you could always try to pick up another Inspire.

Or just get the Firestudio...