As far as ins and outs,We use the tango from Frontier and the
wavecenter cards.You can have two to make sixteen for your use.Very
stable,never have had any probs from either products!!Price is the
best as well.Check out Wavecenter.com.We are also still using an abit
bh6 mobo with intel pent3 500 proccess. and matrox dualhead moniter
cards in our rigs.We are turning out great results with no probs and
plenty of headroom.Better than the Pro Tools system that had quite a
few crashes at the wrong times!!As well as price!!!We get to pick out
our own hardware this way.Before you buy,make sure the company has
tech support.Digidesign,and a few others are really bad at this.I
know I did tech support for a audio company!
Hope this gives some ideas.Good luck :-)


Johan Althoff wrote:
>>I'm currently pondering the budget for our next project,
>>and I've come to the conclusion that I need the following:
>>
>>1: The ability to record as many simultaneous channels as
>>possible straight into Vegas. Minimum 8, 16 is better.
>>
>>2: A rig powerful enough to handle a few plug-ins on each
>>of those channels.
>>
>>3: Being able to send those effected channels out into my
>>outboard and back into Vegas as a 2-track for mastering
>>purposes. I still want to use it.
>>
>>And, the 5-billion dollar question iiis:
>>
>>What gear do I need?