For that.... check Ebay and pick up a reasonably priced all in one recording console, mixer board built in, and throw a few mics on the instruments and waaa laaa.

You can generally burn CD's directly from those things.

I had a Korg D-1600 once upon a time that would work nicely for that. It was $300 on Ebay. It was really good for audio recording but not so much for digital stuff so I sold it after only a few months to go totally digital. It had 16 channels of audio recording and phantom power for condenser mics.


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