mixer question

[mr. produca]

i said in an earlier post that a friend of mine had a band that he wanted to record,my question what size mixer would be appropriate for the task.thier dominican so they like thier band music. theres about 4 or 5 of them.
1 on drums,1 on the keyboard,1 on electric guitar,1 possibly on acoustic and 1 on bass but they might throw in some maracas and who knows what else!!
what size mixer will handle this task,these guys practise alot and consider themselves perfectionist(i hope i got that right)i told him when i get a hold of some gear he could come and do some recording,there are quite a few bands looking to record!! i think ill have to redirect them because i have no experience at recording bands or the funds for such a board. but the reason i asked the question is becaus e they want to get some gear thierselves,they basicallly know what they need (basically ) but they would like to know what size mixer is best,they arent tight on budget, together they scraped together about 7gs for it.help me help these guys out!!!!!

[matt rascal]

It depends on wether you're going to record them all at the same time or individually. If you're doing them individually you're probably gonna want atleast 5 or so mic inputs to do drums. If you're doing them all at the same time you'll probably need 16-24 channels.

[mr. produca]

any boards you would recomend?

[mr. produca]

yea and they would rather playing together