Greetings every one,

I hope y’all are doing fine today. I need some feed back and advice on a scenario here. At my church, I work with a small choir of about 10 singers, an electric guitar player and myself on a Yamaha Clavinova. We usually rehearse approximately 5 songs at our once a week rehearsals. I use the onboard drums on the Clavinova because it is pretty loud enough and so, I use it for time keeping during rehearsals to play along with. Here is what I want to do. I would like to record my weekly rehearsals, song by song, in a multi track way, where I can be able to go back and do some editing track by track. So let’s say, I want to add some extra keys, or maybe the guitar player would like to overdub some guitar rhythm parts or maybe I need a singer to come in and redo their vocal take on a particular song. Or I may need to adjust the volume on any one of the individual tracks. I know that this depends on a lot of things but I was thinking of purchasing either a Mac Laptop or a hard Disk recorder. In terms of a Hard Disk Recorder, there are 2 in particular that I have been reading up on interestingly. They are the KORG D888, which can be checked out at http://www.musiciansfriend.com/document/korg/d888_digital_recorder?doc_id=100894, and then there is the ZOOM HD16CD from Samsung which can be checked out at http://www.zzounds.com/item--ZOMHD16CD.

So my question can be summed up in this way:. Mac Laptop? Korg D888? ZoomHD16CD? Which one do I get? Which one would ya’ll advise me to purchase? Also, what about my interface? Now, at my house, my mini home studio includes a Yamaha Motif ES7, a Lexicon Omega USB-audio/ Midi interface, 2 good studio monitors and a Compaq Pressario Desktop PC running Windows XP with 1.8 Ghz processor, 1 Gig of Ram, and hard drive space is approximately 65 giggs. In terms of software on my PC currently, I have Cubase Le, Band in a box 2007 and Power Tracks Pro Audio 12. I use Audacity for some editing also. I want to be able to take home a wave or whatever format file of my rehearsal from my church to the house and do further editing and sweetening like I said earlier so that I can do quality rehearsal CD’s to hand out to my singers.

I am at the valley of decision at the moment. I would luvvvv to hear from y’alll PLEASE. I do await your feed back.

Jacobins