Starter equipment under $150 (mixer) to record guitars, keybd, vocals??

What is a good choice of equipment to economically interface the following (probably only 1-3 input sources per track), to GarageBand?
1 - Shure low impedance microphone (plus a low-z to hi-z transformer )
1 - Sure high impedance microphone
Instruments: Electric guitar, bass, and Yamaha PSR-270 keyboard with Midi (I have a Yamaha USB MIDI cable)
I am trying to get my kids interested in music. My ulterior motive is while playing in a band in the 80's, I always lusted after an 8-track studio. I recently discovered GarageBand and I saw how affordable 8 and 12 channel Behringer mixers are. To reduce initial costs, should I start with an analog mixer and later get a USB or Firewire audio digitizer interface?
Other interests are karaoke and I think a mixer would be useful for that as well.
Thanks in advance for any tips or recommendations,
-Ed

EdOfTheMountain wrote:
What is a good choice of equipment to economically interface the following (probably only 1-3 input sources per track), to GarageBand?
1 - Shure low impedance microphone (plus a low-z to hi-z transformer )
1 - Sure high impedance microphone
Instruments: Electric guitar, bass, and Yamaha PSR-270 keyboard with Midi (I have a Yamaha USB MIDI cable)
I am trying to get my kids interested in music. My ulterior motive is while playing in a band in the 80's, I always lusted after an 8-track studio. I recently discovered GarageBand and I saw how affordable 8 and 12 channel Behringer mixers are. To reduce initial costs, should I start with an analog mixer and later get a USB or Firewire audio digitizer interface?
With only around $150 to play with, I'd do it in the other order. Start with an audio interface, and then later build up from there. While studio hardware used to be more oriented around a mixer, these days, with digital audio workstations like Garageband including the mixer in software, the hardware is more oriented around the interface.
I'd check out some USB interfaces in your price range (avoid the Digidesign hardware because it's geared towards ProTools). Sweetwater is a good site to research equipment:
http://www.sweetwater.com/c695--USBAudioInterfaces
There are also some hybrid interfaces that combine analog mixers with digital interfaces, but the ones I know of cost more than $150.

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