dannyd wrote:

I was looking at the Firepods until I realized that I couldn't give
them an external word clock

Waitacottonpicin minute. I'm pretty sure that I read that Presonus had
a new driver for Windows that would let you stack three Firepods. On a
Mac (the latest Tiger OS) you can use the Aggregate Driver features to
run three of them. I didn't read all the fine print about how to do
this, but you can:

http://www.presonus.com/firepodmultiunit.html

I'm not sure if they sync up internally or maybe you use the S/PDIF
output to sync them. That's an option. So, yeah, check out the Firepod.
It's got to be better audio quality than the Behringer (which gets more
enthusiastic praise for its bang for very few bucks than it does for
high quality mic preamps), and at least Presonus tells you how to set
up three of them for 24-track recording. Good for Presonus - they get
to sell more Firepods that way.