Setup Compressor Hardware On Logic 7? Options

[Mastiksoul]

Hi,

its my first post on this forum... Hi to all ;-))

I was woundering if any of you around have manage to setup external compressor in to Logic 7?
I am getting a TLA this week and wanted to route the audio of the compressor to the buses in L7.
Basicly make the sound go frow the compressor(to make it fat of course) and route it back to L7 to one of the buses.
Is any one in the forum that could help set it up?

Other question is!!!

Would it be worth it to bounce the track in the end in L7 or to record to an external device (like CDR or DAT).

Some people have said to me that they don´t actually bounce the track so they don´t allow the sound card to make the digital conversion.
They basicly make the sound go fro a nice compressor and Record the all track to a diferent Audio Track in L7.
I am kind of confused with all this information.

Please understand that i always used the bounce method and only used Soft compressors.
I obviously want to start different ways.

Any thoughts is kindly appreciated.

Thank you