Mixer For Live And Recording Purposes, Advice please!!! Options

[ando]

Hi,

I play acoustic guitar in a duo with another, so we have 2 electric acoustic guitars (with preamps), and two Shure SM58's. Currently we are playing small venues using a Squire Powermixer which has 4 line in's and very small amount of EQ. As you can imagine it sounds ok, but far from awesome!!!

I have recently bought a 15inch powerbook, and I am dead keen on recording a demo CD, but also...if possible use a computer software program to mix my songs and then send them back to the mixer for live gigs.

For this I gather I will need to get....
A soundcard with a 4x4 capabilities (eventually once I learn the software capabilities!!!)

That is down the track, because I have a gig coming up and I want to start with the mixer as my first proper purchase, what should I get. I don't want to spend much more than £250. I am hoping that i can use the mixer for EQ purposes for the next gig and then plug that into the input of the powered mixer.

In a nutshell what mixer is goign to suit me.....for live and recording use!!! I have seen the Soundlab G742 poweramp which looks like it will do everything I want, but if anyone has any advice please help!!!

This post has been edited by ando: Tue 24 Aug 2004, 17:53