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In article t writes:

He has one of those Alesis hard disk recorders, and he wishes to record a
live show by taking 24 individual signals from a FOH console and bring them
into the Alesis. He feels he needs some type of 24 channel pre-amp /
line-in gain control unit.

Why not just take direct outputs from the house console? He won't have
his own gain controls, but it's practically impossible to get enough
level out of a modern console to drive the HD24 to full scale, and at
24-bit resolution, the noise floor is so low that if peaks never get
above -10 dBFS, he'll be just fine.

One thing that he should have is a "back end" though, a simple mixer
so that he can monitor (via the recorder outputs) what's actually
getting to the recorder inputs. It doesn't have to be particularly
high fidelity since he won't be making any critical decisions, but he
needs to verify what's going to each track, and that the meters are
showing real signal and not hum or strange noises.

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