Help PLZ ?Hard disk or ADAT BOTH ?

[EMU4XT]

ok 1st off this is what i got =
1-guitar amp Randall Warhead (Half)
2-bass amp Ampeg (8 ten cab)
3-old juno 106
4-boss gt-3 (gt efx)
5-Emu4 xt
6-mpc 2000
7-bass station rack
8-event monitors
9-MAC G4
10-Emagic Logic Platium
11-mackie 8 bus 32 channel
12-nord lead 2 (nord 3 on the way)
13-Andromeda on the way soon (Alesis) Analog Keyboard
14-basic 5 piece Drum Set
15-and 6 EFX Racks
16-and other stuff ,amps, loud speakers ext... wich dont have much to do with this question.....

My problem is i want to record i got the mixer ill be using i got logic and a good comp so should i go for a sound card like 1224 MOTU (will it work?) Can i go directly to disk if so will i need another hard drive and SCSI Card ?.Or go for some ADATS like the guy at MARS Music says i should (darn sales man heh) BOTH ahh? Dont want to unless i need to?Or what? I want good quality but dont want to spend tons of money got other bills to worry about so a pro tools rig is out of the question!
THX in Advance

 

[Ebony Run]

Stack up the ram in your computer (get it up to 256 Megs), and buy either a Delta 10/10 or a MOTU 24i. You'll need a few misc wires to use the pre-amps in your mackie board.. total cost, somewhere around $1000US.

 

[dobro]

I think you can go either way.

"Can i go directly to disk"

Yup.

"if so will i need another hard drive and SCSI Card?"

If you record audio to computer seriously, it's recommended that you have a separate hard drive for audio, but I know that if you're not working with that many tracks, you can do everything (record, surf, store data) on one hard disk. I don't think you need SCSI - there's a guy on this board (Slackmaster) who know loads about computers, and for a very long time, he's been saying that IDE works as well as SCSI in most cases.

"Or go for some ADATS like the guy at MARS Music says i should (darn salesman heh) BOTH ahh? Dont want to unless i need to?"

If I had the money, I'd record to ADAT, and mix on computer. Because I don't have the money, I'm doing everything on computer. Mind you, at the moment I'm not recording more than three tracks at a time. If you had 8 inputs recording at the same time, I think it would depend on your computer whether it could handle it.

 

[dragonworks]

I love may adat, I mix in my computer. Im sure this wont help much but I just like to say it.

 

[DollarB]

I have soley used a hard disk and find it quite easy and convenient. Why does recording with an Adat seemed to be preferred?