Need equipment advice for my recording needs.

[Mag]

I'm wanting to interface with my PC to make digital mastered recordings and burn them to CD/R. I already have some good software to record and burn with. I'm new to home recording but have a great knowledge of computers and a great PC to work with but I do need a good sound card to interface with but I want to get one that will fit my needs.

What we do:

Most of the time when we recored on our analog 4 track I will lay down the drums and he'll lay down the guitar part at the same time. Then we'll go back and add vocals and a bass track or lead (you get the picture)....now currently I'm only mic'n my drums with one mic (that's why I'm upgrading) ; ) but for this new setup I am going to get 4 tom triggers, a snare trigger, kick drum trigger, and probably a TD-8 brain/module, so the TD-8 and 6 triggers will have to be included in the "big picture".

What we've got to work with:

-A more than capable PC 2.4ghz XP Home
-Recording software and Burning Software
-Older 12 channel Peavey board with phantom power
-Little 4 channel mixer....can't remember what kind.
-Monitors, mics, and cables
-Soon, the triggers and TD-8

So what would be a good sound card to go with for what we want to do? And please, any other suggestions or equipment we might not be aware about that we'll need?

Any help is appreciated and I'm very glad I found this site! I've already searched and found a lot of information useful.

 

[Stealthtech]

Perhaps something like the delta 66 would work good for your needs. No preamps included though...the Omni is cool but not enough inputs. Your mixer I assume your using for preamp.
Theres a half dozen good interfaces out there.
Look at M-Audio delta series, RME Multiface, Ardvark, MOTU for some descent setups.

 

[Bulls Hit]

First decide how many concurrent tracks you need to record. Do you want each drum on its own track?

The Delta 44 give you 4 analog ins. On the 66 you also get 2 s/pdif ins

 

[Mag]

First decide how many concurrent tracks you need to record. Do you want each drum on its own track?

The drum module I'm getting only has a left(mono) and right ouputs so I'll most likely be using the mono output into the soundcard. Which only leaves 3 inputs left on the sound card. 2 of those inputs will be used by cymbal mics coming from the phantom power board, so that only leaves room for one other person to lay down a track at the same time.....that is sufficient but I'd like more in case we have a non-serious jam session and more people want to record with us at the same time....so my drums will take up 3 inputs, 1 guitar, 1 bass, 1 vocal.

So can someone point me to a sound card like the delta 66 except with 8 inputs? After I get that and some triggers and module I'll be set....I'm trying not to spend over $900-$1000

I've found the digi 001 that pro tools make but it's pretty expensive even for a used one on ebay, but that comes with all the protools software too....

 

[Mag]

post didn't bump up, so... bump