multi track recording ie - SONAR, PRO TOOLS

Originally Posted by Chingas

Dan, I play drums. Very little but enough to hold a beat. But today you don't need to be a drummer. There are fantastic loops out there and with MIDI you can actualy program your beats note per note if you wanted to.

And it will always sound programmed.
Live drummers can put "feel" into every little motion. Try keeping a jazzy, off-beat ride cymbal riff going by programming it in. Of course you can sample but that was played live originally.
I used to record on an 8 track reel to reel a long time ago. I had a lot of fun doing that. Never made any money. I have been watching CL and ebay for similar equipment, just to lay down some tracks of stuff I created in the past twenty years. I don't like the sound of most modern recordings. CD quality is far undersampled.
What kind of equipment do you need to get high quality digital? It would have to be a lot better than CDs (44.1 kHz, 16 bit).