Hi everyone,

Hopefully you can provide me some much needed advice as I'm very new to
all this. I worship at a church where we already have a 24 way mixer
already installed. We recently added a DVD player as a source, but we
really would like the following

Source Systems:
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DVD Player
VCR
Audio Cassette Recorder
Mini Disk Recorder
PC

Recording Systems
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VCR
Audio Cassette Recorder
Mini Disk Recorder
PC

The sound mixer we have is now fully loaded, and so has no free
connections, but it does have a pair of jacks for Tape input and another
pair for Tape output. What I would like to know is can I connect the
Tape Input to some kind of separate mixer/selector box so that I can
choose one of the above sources to play through the sound mixer, and so
become audible to the congregation.

At the same time we would like the Tape Output to go to another separate
box which would send the same audio signal to the four recording systems
in parallel, so each would get the same audio signal at the same time.

I don't mind if the two boxes are the same or separate, but as we are
based in the UK, they need to be available here.

We also have a separate Video solution where our services are both
recorded to the VCR, and sent to a spill over area in a nearby hall.
Ideally we would also like to send the video signal to the same PC as the
audio as described above, so we could capture both video and audio on the
PC for later editing to make our own SVCD or DVD's. Has anyone already
done this, and if so what software would you recommend for capturing
audio on it's own on the PC (to make our own CDs), and/or combined with
video (to make our own SVCDs and DVDs)?

Many Thanks