I've been recording at home for years, starting out on a little Tascam 6 track Portastudio. The purpose has always been to create scratch tracks of songs I have written to bring to the band in order to rehearse for recording and live performance. I have always recorded albums in a professional studio because I believed that there is no way to achieve a professional sound at home. The times they are a changing. Now I think with the right performance, room and equipment you can make an album at home that sounds professional. Here's what I want to do. I want to create a click track, guitar parts, bass parts and vocals, then take those parts into a professional studio to finish it all off. I have an AKG 415B, a Lauten Atlantis and too many lesser condenser and dynamic mics in my mic locker. I have a Grace 101, a True Systems P-Solo, a GAP pre73 and a FMR RNP, preamps. I also have an acoustically treated room. I use a Digidesign 003 rack+ going into a Mac Pro running Pro Tools. I think the room the mics and the preamps will do the trick. The 003 leaves something to be desired. I never use the preamps. I just go straight into the line inputs with my collection of preamps. My idea is to get something with better ADA conversion. If it has some quality preamps all the better. I have been looking at the UAD Apollo and the Apogee Ensemble. I can get an Ensemble for about $1500.00 right now. I already have a UAD 1 card in the Mac. Only problem is that the UAD 1 card only runs at 32 bits so I am not able to utilize the Macs 64 bit architecture. Ultimately I would like the capability to record at least 12 tracks at one time. Anyone's suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.