[ddots-l] control surfaces

  Hi! I am thinking about starting off with a small type of studio thing in my 
house, to start trying to get people's work to produce,which will hopefully 
expand further so that I can get more. I assume that an essential item would be 
a control surface. The reason I say this is essential is because I only have 
one input and output medium on my soundcard, so routing it to a normal mixer 
would not work I don't think. So rather than getting another sound card for the 
time being, I thought I might as well look at getting a control surface, which 
will save messing around with lots of wires and configuring the desk which can 
often go wrong. PLus It'll most likely reduce any hiss from all this equipment 
if its controled through the midi interface. 
So what control surfaces could anyone recomend. I don't want anything too 
extensive. A lot of the control surfaces I've seen on the internet aare quite 
complex and you can control everything on them. I'm looking for a cost 
effective (which is a bit of a vague word) piece of equipment that I can mix 
with. Motorized faders don't really matter I don't think, if that'll knock the 
price down a bit, because I will be automating the faders with my hands and 
relying on my ears rather than feeling the faders. 
Sorry for this email's length and thanks!
David 

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