yep. I track mine and then lline them up in post. I run stage lip or in front of the monitors, plus sbd feed, plus aud mics in the back. If I don't line tem you, it's plauged with phase issues and cavernous sound. If your going to do live mixing, you really have to be on the same plane or darn close, with the same cable run length as the sound guys to get good results. Ilm working on a festival now where I ran 10 cannels if you want to hear what it sounds lie.
on top that, imo you will have a hard time mixing in a high spl environment. You'll need really good isolation cans or you'll crank the volume really high and destroy your ears. Just things to think about. 
I think you're overstating the drawbacks here and stifling experimentation with your tact...
"plagued"? And then taking this down to minutia like cable length...?
Give the fellow some useful advice...not just "buy another rig"...he referenced a 150 dollar mixer...doubt he's ready to jump into a 1000 dollar rig...
I've used a device similar to the one Disco references with acceptable results...Sorry I dont think any of the recordings I posted suck...or have anything "plaguing" them that makes them unlistenable...
Yeah some good headphones are in order...
Runonce says you should be fine doing what you stated in a previous post I guess?
"I've been taping small venues that I can usually patch into the sbd and set up my mic stand near the sbd cage"
Have at er. Spend your $150 on the mixer and then when you discover on your own that this doesn't make a very good recording, you can toss it in a closet like the one I have thats filled with stuff I gave a go at, but then found out it won't work well. Please be aware that a closet like this, if your married, will become a very big source of contention for your wife. I wish I had been stifled on tapersection before I bought a lot of this crap, a Edirol M-10DX mixer specifically in reference to this thread.
The problem your probably running into with the two recorders is that they aren't synched either. The clocks run at different speeds. You need to get yourself some post production software that will let you time stretch or cut it up and line up the two sources to make them match.
it's a pain either way you look at it unfortunately, but at least if you use two recordings, the worst that will happen is you'll have a usable sbd, and a usable aud and not an unsynched aud/sbd source that you can never fix. I have a whole festival thats like that that I've never listened too from when I started taping
If I were you, I'd save up and get an R-44 or something of the like. It makes life so much easier for doing stuff like this.
The mixer would work nicely if you wanted to run your cards and omni's from the same location on one recorder, then get the sbd on another though. Thats an avenue you make take a look at. Good luck
Topic: Would this mixer allow me to record three sources mixed down to 2 tracks? (Read 7510 times)