thegatekeeper
New member
Hi guys this is my first post here and I wanted to start out by asking a few questions on gear. I have been doing pa work with no recording at all, but I have picked up various books and I have learned alot in the process. But now my question is this. I'm trying to build a studio. I already have drums, guitars, basses, keys, di boxes, mics for amps and drums, basically the instruments and a I have a mackie 24x8 console that I bought from my church. I also have the hr824 for monitoring. Now my question is this. I'm trying to get connected to the computer. I have a decent pc custom built very smooth and powerful 1.5 gb ram, 300 gb drive space,amd 64 3400, but I'm still stuck on how to get the actual music in the computer. I know I need a some sort of interface, but now my question is I've heard alot of a/d converters. So do I need a sound card or just the converter. I would definatly record more than 2 tracks at once maybe something like 16-20, all the drum mics and keys guitar etc. And if i need the converter how would I connect it to the system. I was looking at the MOTU 24I/O and my guess was to connect the tape outs from the board into the motu and then the outputs back to the tape returns? or just ellimating the tape returns all together and just connect the motu via firewire to the puter. And my other question is, I know that there are vairous control boards out there like the digidesign control 8 and the large control 24 and like the ones by mackie, but would there be a way that I could use the analog board to control my setup on the puter. Like in cubase or something? Well sorry for the long post but thanks alot guys
-cliff
-cliff