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  So where does it all begin?  If you were to look to the left of the sound engineer on any Sunday morning,  you would see an equipment rack housing two Alesis HD24 digital mulitrack recorders.  The term "multitrack" is used because, rather than recording the worship team's performance as a whole onto a left & right stereo track, each individual voice and instrument is recorded onto it's own audio track (it's as if there were a separate recording device for every voice and instrument... which in reality there is, but contained in two units).  These two digital recorders are synchronized together, so that when the first machine is record enabled, the second machine moves in exact time synchronization with the first.  Because each machine is capable of recording 24 audio tracks, two machines allow a total of 48 individual instrument or voice tracks to be separately recorded onto their removable hard drives.
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  This is the same principle that is used for the live sound that you hear over the loudspeakers.  Each sound source (Jason's voice, the electric guitar, etc.) is routed to it's own audio channel via the large mixing console sitting at the rear of the auditorium, and the live sound engineer adjusts the various volume levels to produce a cohesive and (hopefully!) pleasing mix. However, a duplicate feed of each voice and instrument is sent to the multitrack recorders, so the sound quality and volume level of each instrument can be re-adjusted at a later time in the studio for the purpose of inclusion on the next CD.
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