And, of course, piano. Thanks.

"soundhaspriority" wrote in message
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Thanks to all. It looks like it's going to be the Apogee Mini-Me.

The next question refers to allocating channels of unequal quality. This
is what the setup looks like:

Tascam FW-1082 firewire board, http://www.tascam.com/Products/fw1082.html.
It has four onboard pres. Four more channels are in the form of two
Midiman DMP3's, http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/DMP3-main.html

The Tascam's SP/DIF will be fed by the Apogee Mini-Me.

This means that the channels will be of unequal quality. So, how to
allocate them? In the case of a vocalist backed by a band, it seems
logical that the vocalist(s) should be on the Mini-Me. In other
situations, this is less clear. Suppose I'm recording a chamber music
quintet, which might incorporate a variety of instruments. I would want to
use coincident stereo mic, in combination with mics for the various
instruments.

1. Is the distant coincident mic the most critical?
2. Is there a clear ranking for criticality of the feed for the following:
sax, oboe, trumpet, violin, cello, bass?

Tia
Bob