Live Multi-track recording

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I am doing research for a church that is looking at buying professional/or as near as they can get equipment. There needs to be 24-32 inputs. Preferably 32. The budget for the equipment is 5000. They already have all the mics ect... I just want to know what kind of system you would suggest. Maybe a souped up computer and some really nice cards. Or maybe a HD system. Unfortunately Pro Tools is out of our reach right now so we will have to leave that out of the mix.
 
Well it wouldn't really be pro quality, but with only $5k to spend ... it would be rather difficult to get 32 IN's.
However, a nice computer, a Dakota plus a Montana Expansion Card and four ADA 8000's will get you 32 tracks.
Then you just need some software.
n-Track would work with that budget.
 
Do you really need to record 32 tracks, or do you just need that many channels? Cause you could combine a 32x8 mixer and a 24 track HDR for that budget, recording 8 tracks. A PC solution is cheaper with only 8 track recording too. If you have separate live sound and recording techs then 8 tracks should be no hardship. The HDR would give you flexibility to record more tracks direct from the channel outs if you really needed it.
 
jimmy - at this level/budget there are many options.
it would help to know how many tracks nedd to be recorded
at once to seperate tracks on the computer.
you could do some submixing of the 32 tracks for example in the foh mixer
to 8 group outs which are then recorded on a computer equipped with
a 8 input sound card. which would be quite affordable.
one idea to think about is BACKUP. any machine can go down.
ANY MACHINE. what you might consider is the mixer feeding TWO
affordable amd athlon pc's (500 bucks each) . ie take the group outs
from the foh mixer and split to sound cards in each pc. this way you have back up during the live performance.
for a mixer you could look at a midas all the way down to soundcrafts
and yamaha. for software on the pc's you might consider samplitude.
 
minimum

The minimum amount of tracks i would need to record at once is 24.
 
thinking

Would one of those new 24 track HDD ADAT machines work?
 
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