Sans the one thing that I have come to love from Presonus is their monitoring station.
http://www.amazon.com/PreSonus-Monitor-Station-Studio-Control/dp/B0010HGCTU/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
The beauty of it is once you have your sources and destination systems wired you don’t have to crawl behind the computer every time you want to change sources or destination. I use it with an external sound card/interface/DSP, so it’s easy to just unplug it and use it with a laptop for portable recording. The four headphone jacks are great for monitoring during isolated track recording.
Zoom makes some cool stuff and you get a lot of features for the money. I have an older MRS 1266 ten track which still comes in handy from time to time. If you’re using Cubase why don’t you just record directly into the software on the hard drive, rather than swap cards back and forth?
In either case it’s a great setup though because you have the freedom to do all hardware/software, or both for recording. It will ease the learning curve if you’re more comfortable with the hardware interface, while learning the DAW. Hardware is so much more intuitive to use, it took quite a while before I started trusting and using Sonar.
When you use the Zooms in tandem like that, does it combine the sound from both units into one master stereo output, or does it stay the same with one stereo output per unit? Mike was looking at replacing his old analog console, I’m trying to figure out the best way to get him to digital recording. His preference is a hardware interface with physical faders.
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Once and a while either your PC or Cubase will throw a wobbler and something will be wrong...screenshots save a world of pain.
