Gear and connections in studio

[migreeni]

How do you setup your studio gear connections? I see a lot of people use a real shitload of gear and I'm dazzled how they make everything work with each other!

For instance, let's say I have an M-audio projectmix I/O (which I will buy ASAP) and Focusrite's Liquid Mix and I want both of them to work together in the same session: My computer has only one Firewire port and both of the hardware are firewire. Do I stick the Projectmix to my computer's firewire port and Liquid Mix to the Projectmix's firewire port?

Any other pointers regarding this topic would also be appreciated!

E: Shit, seems like projectmix has only one fw... Well you got my point anyhow!

 

[Torniojaws]

There are very poor chances that two daisy-chained Firewire devices will function properly in *audio* work, where discrete signal is of utmost importance. Most people just buy more Firewire controllers (one PCI controller costs something like 15 - 20 euros). But remember that almost all studio gear is connected to interface inputs (unbalanced 6.3mm jacks), not to the Firewire bus as separate devices. So it's basically:

A whole bunch of rack gear/such -> Inteface -> one Firewire cable -> Computer -> DAW

 

[AudioGeekZine]

project mix only has one port, its also seems to be picky about what else is on the same FW card. But that may have been due to the quality of the card. Resulted in crackling during recording.