went to the local audio shop today to have a look at some mixers, they only had the yamaha in and not too keen on the build quality at all, really cheap plastic and loose sliders.

was speaking to one of the guys there who thinks i should by pass the mixer altogether and get a usb external soundcard with some ins and outs along the lines of an maudio fastrack pro.

he says this would be preferable to running a mixer into my audiophile (that was bought when they first came out). is this right?