Here in Portland, we keep running into soundboards with digital-only outputs for multitrack recording (mostly firewire, I believe). Anyone have a good suggestion for an entry-level rig for this? Ideally, it would be able to handle the traditional 1/4" direct outs as well, but I know next to nothing about the options out there, so if having both options means twice as much gear/$, I would probably just go with the firewire setup. I do have a decent Windows 8 laptop if that helps. In addition to recording all channels off the board, I would want to add 1 or 2 sets of mics, so phantom power would be nice, but not necessary.
Apologies for the noobness on this, of if I'm posting in the wrong forum.
Edit: Should I be posting in Ask a taper? Team Multitrack?