
How I've always recorded is directly plugging microphones into my audio interfaces as they record onto Ableton. I have in the past dualed both of these interfaces together so I could record drums with 15 mic's (a little extreme i know, but it was a bit of an experiment).

I own two audio interfaces which I think I'll need to do this, a Focusrite Saffire Pro 40, and an M-Audio Ultra8R, which are both 8 Channel interfaces. So what i want to be able to do is use 16 of my channels on my Soundcraft mixer as direct channels to Ableton, which i can track and mix with using the faders and EQ on the Mixer. (I'm sure this works fairly the same as Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic or any other DAW, I just personally prefer Ableton for It's layout and my years of experience using it). I was just after some advice to how i would go about plugging my 24 channel Soundcraft LX7 Analogue Mixer into my Mac to multitrack record on my DAW (of preference) which is Ableton Live.
