Renovation Project Stress, Hardware help needed Options

[emgcarra]

Hi all:

I have been recording at home for a while using the "normal" stuff: Mackie 24.8, interface and Mac.....Now I have this new Mac Pro w/Logic Pro 8 in it and still have my FW4410 M-Audio interface....I do have a bunch of synth modules and outboard as well, but I think it is time to update my set up.
I guess I´ll give all the old and bulky stuff away (Mackie, synth, outboard, adat, dat, etc) and will keep just the most beloved:
a couple fo modules, a rev and maybe a compressor....But I am going to need a mixer, but a small one. I guess I´ll need one that could act as an interface and as a small mixer...But this search is not an easy task.
I´ve been looking in the web for such a piece but with not success. Here´s where I need some of your help.
Any idea of how could I put this set up together ?
There´s a mini-mixer-interface waiting for me ?
If so, are their pre good enough to make a more than decent recording ?
I would like to make it a better looking space too, so I think I could move to a "better" interface and do some cosmetic changes but I can´t sell the house to do that........for obvious reasons.... So, I need help and I also know that this could be the place.
I´ll look forward to read your ideas....if any
Thanks a lot in advance

[emgcarra]

Thanks again....I ´ve been considering a new chair too...Seems silly but it isn´t.
What´s really keeping me asleep is that feeling of waste, looking to all that turned off "analog" modules...So when I decided to "think of a solution", I was trying to find out a way to put things right and gain a little more space in the process...
I am also thinking about finishing a new record, mostly by my own (which is something I have never though...). Dealing with a group of virtual instruments, playing guitar and bass and calling a real drummer only when I see that I really can´t make it w/Addictive Drum or Ultrabeat.........Sound familiar...?
And like a kid, I wonder that if I could change something around, in order to find some motivation...(working alone in a tiny space could be frustrating) I´ll be able to happily finish the such call "record".....I´m also considering painting as part of the
renovation.
You´ve been great with advice and cosideration.....The blog is useful too....Thanks

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