My housemate is the after-hours jam session type of musician. That’s normally just fun, but it’s also a stroke of good luck for me because it’s resulted in her band’s rapid growth, which helps me to test the limits of my recording setup. I just upgraded from 8 to 24 mic inputs over the last couple weeks. Laziness drove me to go with 24 instead of 16; I wanted to have all the inputs from the 16-channel studio snake permanently attached and routed into Logic while leaving the other 8 set up and routed for my own solo recording. Less plugging and unplugging and resetting levels and rerouting through the mixer and so forth. But it looks like 24 was the right call anyway. Tonight I’m doing a test session on her band’s rehearsal and even with a bandmate missing, it’ll take 16 channels: 8 drum mics, 4 instruments, 3 singers, and a room mic. Since I’m new to Logic, I’ll be a little on edge about the Mac Mini handling that many simultaneous tracks and it all sounding okay for playback to the band afterward, but that’s why I’m practicing on their practices for a while. Go Mini go!