[tZer]

Baron, thanks for your reply. One of my biggest challenges is time. Our 'studio' is not in my basement so I only have about 2 hours a week to work with signal routing issues. This time fights hard with our playing time too, as you can imagine.

I understand that I have many output options from my consoles other than INSERTS. My biggest confusion comes when I begin to try to use them all. I am learning - and I think I have a good idea of what I need to do.

I will be using some channel INSERTS as sends to the DAW - mainly for my line-level instruments. As for the mics on the drums - I plan to send individual mic signals as well as mixed groups to the DAW and to the monitoring setup via busses.

With 4 separate mixing consoles available to me, each with it's own INSERT and busses options, if I can't get what I need into the DAW and our monitoring setup, I need to give up altogether!

Thanks!
--Tony