okay so lets just say i need to plug in a semi acoustic and a vocal mic......we can keep the fx thingy out for the time being........so how important is a mixer....i mean as far as im concerned i dont need to record drums where we get this good number of mic inputs coming in.....do i then still need a mixer and if at all it is inevitable so whats the most reasonable mixer (price and performance wise)??? lets just say for me an 8 channel mixer is more that enough.