Hi,
To get the best recording posible I sugest using a standalone hard disk recorder with a built in cd burner.
you can go from the direct outs on the mixer to the inputs on the recorder
and that way you can have total control over each track/instrument/sound
before mixing down to cd.
if you use a 12 input mixer an 8 input simitanious recorder should be fine
set up 2 good condensers for the chior panned left/right
at least 3 drum mics kick snare/hihat and overhead which can be submixed to two imputs to pan left/right
then you can use 5-7 drum mics
one imputs for keyboards
one for organ leslie
one solo mic and
one input for bass.
I use a set up like this
Mackie CR1204 puls 10 extra inputs
Behringer dual channel compressor gate
Behringer eq
Marshall 2001 condenser (chior)
Samson Co1 condenser (chior)
Samson s12 dynamic (organ 2, drums 3, vocals 4, acustic piano 1)
run Keyboard amp direct outs Left Right to 2 channels
run bass amp direct out to 1 channel
run the direct outs from the mixer to the recorder
Fostex Vf160 (16 track hard disk recorder with cd burner)
I sub mix the praise team mics from five to one
I sub mix the Drums to two
I sub mix the organ to one (one mic for bass rotor and one for horn)
I use light compression and heavy gate settings
I also run a sub mix of everything out to the main house mixer and pa a behringer 24/4 input mixer
so they can record to two track tape as well as a tascam analog four track.
This gives me back up for anything that may go astray durring service.
Like me forgeting to turn the recorder on :?
I then like to transfer to pc to master and edit in sound forge
hope this helps let me know if I can be of more assistance
to hear what my sunday mix sounds like go to the church web site
http://wwwlgreaterwhiterock.org and click on the audio link also the sermons clips link the opening song for the web site and church broadcast was also recorded at the church with this set up
