I appreciate this is an ongoing thread but I have the opportunity of purchasing a second hand N12.

I come here not from a music perspective but rather, from the voice over recording perspective.

Using the firewire connection, can I record six individual mics from the N12 to six individual channels on my DAW (which is Reaper) but have post fader eq, compression and fader levels, ideally, also pan.

In other words, I want to be able to control the level from the faders on the desk, before it goes into the DAW.

I think I have gathered that eq and compression are post but it is the fader level on the desk that I am concerned about as looking at a block diagram, it appears the fader level occurs only after the signal goes into the DAW, that is, the firewire connection is before the fader.

Voice recording is a bit of a different animal to music recording. For example, if I have a 30 radio script to record with four voices and one of those voices has a line which projects more than the others, I want to be able to preempt that and duck that level before it goes into the DAW.

I have a Mackie Onyx 1620 with a firewire adaptor and regrettably, the firewire is pre everything - pre eq, pre pan and pre fader. In other words, totally useless for my needs. I know you can get a mod for it but I would prefer to find something that meets my needs without resorting to that.

If anyone can give me an answer, I would appreciate that.