Any Advice for home studio? Options

[MoxieMike]

Hey. I have been lofting about it your forums and you guys all rock.

I am thinking about doing a home studio for my band and was wondering what you suggest. There would be guitar and vocals, some (limited) live percussion, keyboards and drum machine (midi) and some oddball instruments like cello, flute, etc etc.

I am thinking of going iMac G4 and getting some sort of USB interface (the $179 edirol looks good) and a behringer 16 channel board. (like, $250)

I would be using cubase 5.1, reason, b3 and absynth. And a slew of guitars.

Am i on the right track?

Thanks for your help.
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[Presto]

I'm setting up a home studio for recording only mic and line (no MIDI).
I got my material and realised that if you don't want 'shit in, shit out' you have to count on good mics - SM58 great for gigs but not good enough for recording, and you need quite a few mics for a group.
Now I've got a good mic for starters, I realised that I can record agricultural machinery a couple of miles away. So, I read up about sound insulation for studios. Seems its going to involve as much if not more cost and time than all the rest put together.
http://fr.audiofanzine.net/apprendre/dossi...ge=1&idossier=6
is a good link with plenty of advice by on setting up a studio (set up for the same needs as you but I'm afraid its in French.
Hey, if you dont mind recording only two tracks at a time, the Mbox/protools LE is great. Its nice to have it using USB as that leaves the firewire port on my G3 ibook free for a big and fast external hard drive for the music.