Despite its price and its following, I'm not a fan of the sonic qualities of the DigiDesign HD I/O, and you won't get that number of channels out of a Digi002R!

The MOTU HD192 is probably fine. For myself, when the contract specifies mixdown on an analog desk and/or use of particular outboard gear, I use one of my Alesis HD24XRs as an ADAT-analog interface. You could do worse than consider that route. It's very cost-competitive, even factoring in the need for a PC interface card with 3xADAT ports, and matches anything else I have heard in the price range for conversion quality.

thank u very much Boswell, the thing is that as I already use Protools LE with the Digi002, what I plan to do is transfer the session to mix, to DP and use the HD192 as multitrack outputs... is not that xpensive, I think

talking about alesis, would you recomend the Masterlink 9600 as a mixdown recorder?? like if it was a half inch tape of some sort???

thank u

I'm not in a position to recommend the Masterlink 9600 as I've never used one. There could well be a reason for that.

I had assumed you would be re-digitizing your mixer outputs with the PT rig. Doing this would give you more options for generating mix files to send to your mastering house than using a dedicated 2-channel recorder.

yup, that's what I've been doing actually, recording the mixdown in a stereo track in the same session, but I don't know, I feel like I'm missing something

thank you for your advise, I apreciate it alot!!!