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Maybe you could upload the hiss sound so we hear what kind of hiss you are running into.
Hisses can come up for various reasons. A power conditioner may help, wiring all the devices to the same ground, it may be just the mixer. You could try to test it at a friends with some other gear, audio interface. Balanced cables may help.
You see there could be a variety of reasons to your problem and it may be a pain to troubleshoot and take a lot of time. Invite some friends to help you locally with that.
We´ll try to advice you online as best we can.
I used to look for a USB Mixer for my setup, there's not too much out there, and you will have to be careful that a device like that is able to actually transport more than just two channels back and forth... . Back then I got me a Alesis multimix 8USB fx, but never was too happy with its sound quality. Later I got a Motu Ultralite mkIII (though I'm not sure, if it works as reliably with PC, I'm on a Mac), cause it gives you 8ins/8outs in very small package - it's not class compliant, though. Then there is the Focusrite 8i6 (class compliant), which gives me 4ins/4outs analog and also works very reliably. I needed at least 4outs then, so you might find something better/more useful to you, but these are my preferences for the time being (they also have symmetrical analog connections (TRRS and not just TRS) so I can forget about hums/hisses... ).
Hope this helps a little,
cheers
Seems like you have two issues.
Identify and hopefully solve the hiss problem
Design a hardware set up that meets your needs
On the first, as suggested above, post a clip of the hiss as that would help with diagnosis.
On the second, before you spend any money, sketch out a plan. How many simultaneous tracks do you need into and out of your PC? How many tracks do you have coming out of your current sources? And aux or fx channels? What do you need to run at the same time?
The optimal solution is a combination of audio interface, mixer and patch bay. But you won't know what combination until you think about the questions above.
Other considerations...
What am I planning to buy in the future? Can use my existing interface in the setup or do I need to start from scratch?
And the most important...
What is my budget? Have included the price of all the cables I will need?
My best advice is to think about these questions and develop some answers before hitting the web and looking for gear, that way you will be in a position to make decisions based on your requirements.
Good answers here. Especially the 'take a minute to map it out' advice. Definitely add a patch bay to your consideration if you haven't already. It can really extend your set up. But, as @xen also mentioned, don't forget the cost of cables, especially when using a patchbay as that can effectively double them.
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About the hiss, just a few observations that may seem dumb, but they may help
Do you have the same hiss if you just use the mixer directly connected to speakers?
When you output the mixer to the interface, make sure that you select the line input of the interface, I don't know this interface personally, but by looking at the pictures, I'm guessing that the line input is NOT the XLR, it's the p10, the same that you would connect a guitar, but you have to change that switch to Line, if you run the line output of the mixer into a mic input, you will have hiss, and noise.
Other thing, make sure that the mixer is sending a hot (loud) signal, and the input of the interface is low, of course, regulate that, making sure that it doesn't clip.
In case you have already done all of that, then the hiss might be some electrical, or cable related problem
Hope this helps
I use a Yamaha MG10XU Analog USB Mixer. The USB option is nice but for recording I just pass the headphone output from my iPad straight into the mixer and then out again into my Mac running Logic.
Lovely little mixer, no hiss at all.
That hiss does not sound like a ground loop. So good news there.
It sounds more like a gain stage issue.
Excellent that you could lower it considerably.
Many people invest quite a lot of time and money to make sound their digital recordings more analog. It sounds like you already nailed it :-)
+1 at gain staging and +5 at working it out. Sounds much better.
tl;dr on gain staging @AfxTwn: you don't need everything super hot but, especially with the budget gear most of us can afford, you don't want any particular amplifier in your circuit working too hard (or at all, if possible, unless for effect). That is, if you feed a line level signal into your mixer you can hopefully leave everything at unity (0db) or lower. Amps don't generally add hiss if they're not actually amplifying. So if you think of your device's output and the preamp at the top of your channel strip and the fader on the strip (and the EQs actually), and the bus output and the main output on you mixer and the preamp on the audio interface each as amps and do what you can do keep any of them from working too hard, you'll be happy.