Will this work?????

[Lostinopinions]

I record both live and Studio music for my church. I have an A & H gl2200 24 ch mixer and I will be purchasing an HD24 within the next week or so. I will be recording 12 to 16 tracks to the HD24, then mixing down through the A & H to a DAW for most of the stuff. But when we produce CD's I was planning on downloading the individual tracks from the HD24 to my DAW and using Cubase or Sonar to apply effects to individual vocals and instruments because I have no Hardware effects.
Does this seem like it will work?

Is there something I am Missing?

Any recommendations?

[MiXit-G]

What DAW are you referring to?

[Lostinopinions]

I will be purchasing this next week. I posted this setup in the Computers & Soundcard forum and didn't hear to much back.

Evercase 10 - Bay
ABIT BH7 Intel 845pe chipset Mother board
ABIT Siluro 64MB Video Card
Maxtor 120GB 7200 Rpm 8MB Cache
Plextor 48X24X48 CD-RW
Enermax 350W Power Supply
Intel P4 2.4 GHz 533 FSB Northwood
1 GB Kingston Hyper X DDR333

Any Suggestions?

[Lostinopinions]

And an Echo Mia

[DDev]

Lost,

Its good to see someone else out there getting into the church recording gig. Sounds like you've got some budget to work with and you're headed in a good direction. I just picked up a Mackie MDR 24/96 this week for $900 so I can ditch my ADATs, which have been good workhorses, but tape is a hassle that I'm looking forward to being rid of, and I really need more than 16 tracks for what I've been working on.

As far as transferring tracks to your DAW you might want to invest in the Alesis Fireport (I think that's the name), which should allow for much faster transfers than the ethernet link. It is about $200 and allows you to pull the drive bay out of the HD24 and plug it in, then transfer your data via firewire (IEEE 1394) to your PC. There are a few guys here who have posted good reviews of this process.

I'm not an expert on PC components, but I'd love to have that much horsepower to do exactly the same thing you're trying to do. I'm not too sure about the Echo Mia. A lot of people have been raving about the M-Audio Audiophile 2496 as a rock-solid audio card. Also, does the video card support dual monitors? From what I've read, Sonar is really slick with a dual monitor setup.

Good luck with it.

Darryl.....

[MiXit-G]

Yep...Although i use a fozzie D-1624 and a scsi jaz transfer its slower than the fireport but still gets the job done at prob 1/4 of the cost.

[mixsit]

Another option to look into would be an adat card (like the Frontier Dakota or others) to transfer 16 or more chanels at once into the DAW. If the HDR's D/A's can recieve from an external adat source, the DAW could then be the final playback device. (I say 'if' simply because I don't know the HDR, but used to do this with adats.) It would possibly save you another transfer back and you might find even more millage in the DAW mix/processing options.
Wayne