Greetings all.

I am working on some suggestions for building a computer based recording setup for recording special events at our church. I will need to be able to record from up to 40 inputs (mostly mic-level).
So far, I have decided on an AMD based system, and I may even go with a dual processor motherboard. (Mac is not an option - don't even mention it.)
I have figured out 2 posible solutions for all those inputs...

1> 2 Hammerfall 96/52 + 5 Swissonic AD24 (or AD8) + 1 Swissonic DA24

or
2> 5 MOTU 896 + 1 (or 2) firewire interfaces.

Are there any other good suggestions?