Being the self-centered guy I am, in addition to the fact that we'll begin recording for real this Thursday, I thought I'd refresh the thread for any additional last minute advice.

Over the past couple weeks, we've been plugging a cd burner into the stereo outs of the board. We wanted to get an idea of the mix as well as an opportunity to really hear how we sound (What songs we do well versus others). We have been working with that board for over a year now (We are to the point where all the gain and slider settings are written down; we just make sure they're set and play). Anyway, the stereo out actually sounded pretty good.

Because of our familiarity with the house system, we will be using two mixing boards, patching from the direct outs of the house to the inputs for the recording. My assumption is to set the gain on the recording board similar to that for performances (equal input signals for all channels) and adjusting the channel sliders for balance. (It would seem the direct outs from the house board would already all be at the same level; any experience?)

As there is no dedicated sound guy, we plan on spending the afternoon setting recording levels from the house output and letting her fly on autopilot for the remainder of the night. Our thinking is if we get close to a good 16 channel mix while recording, we can do any later tweaks on the eight channel ADAT.

Anyway, to be seen. As before, any additional advice is always welcome.

Ed