| Good live rig
The Presonus StudioLive is what you need. 16.4.2 digital mixer with full firewire ins and outs. Easy to use interface. Good mic pres, full eq and dynamics on every channel. Will send all 16 individual channels, all aux buss outputs, and all main outputs to your computer on one firewire connection while mixing a live show at the same time. It lists for 2 grand. I usually hate digital mixers, but when I saw this at the SF AES last fall I was blown away. No @%$##@%@ nested menus to deal with. If you're going to be recording at clubs where there is a separate mixer for the system you'll probably need a mic splitter and possibly a snake. Depending on the circumstances you might want to mic things that are not miced for the PA as well. You won't get a good band mix off a set of PA mics that are only for vocals.......
You'll also need a suitable laptop with a firewire port, of course.
You can import the tracks into PT after the gig.
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