Is My Equipment ok for High Quality Home Recording?

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I have a band and we want to start the process of producing a CD on October this year (choose the songs we have written,groove, arrange, etc.) We want to start recording as early as possible in 2007.
We play mostly Worship at a non-denominational church in Germany and we play Rock/Pop.
I've been using very unregularly Cubase SX 3.1 under Windows but i want to buy a new iMac20 starting 2007. So I've been researching the equipment i would like to buy to make a Budget.... maybe if God wants, find some Sponsors as well.
So maybe you could give me your advice and tell me if with that equipment I could achieve a High Quality Home Recording project ??? Just equipment related, i know there are tons of other things to achieve a good Home Recording project. We will give our Recordings to a Studio for Profetional Mixing and Mastering, we will not do it our selves.
I have some money available for all that but i am neither rich, so i'm on a budget. Somethings i already bought.
Hardware/Equipment
1 x iMac 20" - 2 GbRAM - 250 Disk - ATI 256 Mb (should i get better a 500 Disk ?)
1 x MOTU 828 MK2 - Firewire
2 x Genelec 8030 + 1 Subwoofer 7050B
1 x Neuman TLM 103 (only for voices)
1 x MindPrint EnVoice MK2 (already bought it)
Software
ProLogic 7 (or the newest version on market when i buy the iMac - Cubase will find its way in eBay)
Celemony Melodyne Cre 8 (already bought it - only for voices)
FXPansion BFD (already bought it)
OK... hope i am not forgetting anything. That stuff is the most important for your advice. Please drop your toughts
Cheers, cesar.
Following are our Instruments, but we are not thinking of buying new instruments... maybe somethings for our bassist.
Music Instruments
(Not all the instruments are mine :))
1 x Roland TD12 eDrums (will use it with FXpansion BFD)
1 x Korg TR 76 Keayboard (should i use it only as Masterkeyboard and use the instruments in ProLogic better?)
1 x Koch Multitone 50 W + TS 212 H Cab (it has an amazing recording output, but wanted to record the eGitars not only with the recording output but simultaneously with a mic, is that a good idea? Could I use the Neuman TLM103? or should i get a Shure 57 ?)
1 x Marshall TSL601 (which we want to exchange for another Koch Multitone when we have the money)
1 x Warwick Sweet 15 (thoug we are thinking of exchanging it for a Warwick WC CCL ND8 2x10)
Gitars: We have a 500 something Taylor... really good but i don't know the details since i don't play it and one Epiphoe Custom LesPaul (change the Pickups for 2 Gibson BurstBucker Pro and now sounds like its Gibson Custom counterpart) and a Tokai LP..... hmmmm and a very cheap Yamaha Bass, our bassist hasn't had money to buy something better.
Take care and thanks for your advice and thoughts!!!!
Thinking about buying one

Hi and thanks for all your replies!
I guess i have lots of work ahead of me... I will defenitely get an external Hard Drive for my backups.
About the Audio interface.
Motu 828 MK2 - 730 EUR vs RME Fireface 400 - 880 EUR
Motu 896 HD - 1230 EUR vs RME Fireface 800 - 1300 EUR
What would you recommend me ?
Remember I have the Mindprint EnVoice MK2 Compressor/PreAmp. My Instruments/Mics will be connected directly to MindPrint and MindPrint via SPDIF to my Motu/RME interface. I will record one instrument at a time, so I don't need so many inputs. Just the eGitars will be recorded with 2 inputs.
With this configuration, should i still pay some 500 Extra and get the next level either in Motu or RME ? Is the price difference going to give me really a much better sound to justify those extra 500 ?
Apogee Ensemble - 2050 EUR Is the only Apogee product I can find available here in Germany so far and is out of my league.
From Lynx haven't found anything.

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