Trying to build up a home studio with the family

[Fradfresco]

My father's been wanting a home studio for a while now, and we're finally getting to it.
we want to record live (all musicians playing at once) so we are looking to get some speakers, a mixer, and possibly some studio monitors for close editing.

the most that concerns us are the PA speakers. I'm pretty inexperienced with audio, and whenever i look at PA speakers i just hear high treble LOUD noise for out door use.
do i have a bad vision of PA speakers?
(http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/li ... d-packages)

what are the benifits of studio monitors and PA speakers?
which ones should i be looking to buy?

also, what about mixers? i use live, and i was thinking getting a mixer compatible with live would be quite cool, but on the other hand i do have an MPD24 that could control anything i really want to in live.

over all i'm still starting out with this proccess and help would be greatly appreciated.

[tlennon]

The difference btw PA and Mon's is monitors are designed to reproduce sound with a flatter frequency response representing a more natural sound. Frankly, you will be faced with special issues that you will have to addressed along the way. One of the biggest I see to start will be seperation/isolation of the sources in your live recording area. How to get the guitar, vocals, and other instruments onto their respective tracks with little bleeding from all the microphones you will need to get. Not impossible but challenging. Further, you will be faced with room accoustics and ...... well.... the list goes on and on. Goodo luck!