Please spec me a recording setup

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I started in the mid 70's with a 4 track Tascam, 8 track Fostex, late 80's Steinberg 24 on an Atari an dso on. For the last few years I've been using Soundblaster cards with Cakewalk products and got some amazing results. More recently I bought a Focusrite Saffire and SONAR recording software.

I play in a 5 piece hard rock band and we want a modern setup in our recording studio and we can get rid of a 24 track Fostex digital recorder and Behringer DDX3216 desk.

We need to get as many tracks as possible recorded onto SONAR in one go (7 drums, bass, two guitars) but 8 would do if its too expensive.
I have a P4 3.6 in the house which is great for what I do but what would you recommend now?
Which external desk would you recommend to get those instruments into SONAR?

Can the Behringer DDX3216 be adapted to send 8 instruments to 8 different tracks?

Thanks for any advise.
 
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I started in the mid 70's with a 4 track Tascam, 8 track Fostex, late 80's Steinberg 24 on an Atari an dso on. For the last few years I've been using Soundblaster cards with Cakewalk products and got some amazing results. More recently I bought a Focusrite Saffire and SONAR recording software.

I play in a 5 piece hard rock band and we want a modern setup in our recording studio and we can get rid of a 24 track Fostex digital recorder and Behringer DDX3216 desk.

We need to get as many tracks as possible recorded onto SONAR in one go (7 drums, bass, two guitars) but 8 would do if its too expensive.
I have a P4 3.6 in the house which is great for what I do but what would you recommend now?
Which external desk would you recommend to get those instruments into SONAR?

Can the Behringer DDX3216 be adapted to send 8 instruments to 8 different tracks?

Thanks for any advise.
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What's your budget? ;)
 
I can build the PC myself but wanted to know what processors the muso should go for. I remember seeing an headline on a British mag called Sound On Sound saying "Are AMD dual cores the way to go?". I also want to be able to record at least 8 tracks in one go. The PC will be built around the processor, 2 gig RAM and a Raptor. I have loads of spares so the PC is no concern money wise.
The equipment I don't know anything about is the input device. I know I need some type of mixer with seperate outputs and I know a friend bought a Roland device for around £500 that did this but they're not made anymore. So my budget for the mixer would be around £500.

Edit -
Just come across this device which looks like it will do the job -
Alesis IO/26 Portable Firewire Audio Interface
or
M-Audio Delta 1010

Any advise on the above two would be welcome.
 
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You should be able to record up to 24+ tracks with the 3.6ghz PC you have right now!! I can do 16 (Which is the most I have tried) with my P-4 2.6ghz so your 3.6ghz should be able to do at least 24.....

if you wanted to get a New CPU and wanted to get the next generation Dual Core CPU"s I would get one of the Intel Dual Cores as they are actually as cheap pr cheaper than the AMD Dual Cores and Perform much better because of the 2mb of L2 cache for each Core as well as other Optimizations......



Cheers
 
aardvark5 said:
Edit -
Just come across this device which looks like it will do the job -
Alesis IO/26 Portable Firewire Audio Interface
or
M-Audio Delta 1010

Any advise on the above two would be welcome.
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I'm thinking about the Alesis Interface, the Delta 1010 does not have mic pres.Adat i/o's etc.. and the Alesis looks way better :D.

As far as better specs the Alesis will be the way to go, it just came out on January this year so there's no reviews yet.....maybe mine or Rockablliy's will be the first ones :D:D
 
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