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First you'll need an audio card or interface.   Personally i'd highly 
recommend investing in a MOTU 828 or 828 mkii (£800ish - I've found outboard gear to 
be more reliable and far less noisy than putting all the pressure on my mac).  
 This gives you 8 inputs/outputs, two of which have phantom power and mic 
preamps.   You can then record a live mix straight into logic just as you would a 
digital 8 track   (if possible you should partition your hard drive or 
install a second hard drive to store audio files but this isn't too important).   As 
long as you don't mind mixing in software this way you wouldn't need a mixing 
desk. 

If you're partial to hardware like myself, digital mixers are getting cheaper 
that are designed to work with programs like logic (some have built in audio 
interfaces too but I think they're still expensive), I invested in Logic 
control six months ago and find it's made me much faster and more productive when 
working with logic 6.

Of course you could still use your mixing desk if you wanted by connect it's 
outputs to the MOTU's inputs giving you the benefits of both worlds!

If you still want to use the analog tape recorder (i.e if you're feeling 
nostalgic! ;)   ) and it has smpte   you could sync it with logic but this kind of 
defeats the object..


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