ive been dont live sound for a wile now but trying to get in to digital recording. im shoping for a board but im not shure what qualities i should look for or if i even need a board. i was looking in to the mackie onyx 1640 with the fier wier card, just to get all of the 16 chanles. but im not shure if theres beter quality options or what the better names are

Before you buy a mixer, perhaps buy a dictionary? This book can help you on more difficult words like "doing" and "while". This might also be helpful for Homonyms, like "sure" and shure"

Sarcasm aside, if you are not shure what qualiteez you need in a mixer or fier wier card, do a little rezerch to figyour out what you want first, then set a bujet for urself and shop for a mixzer that fits your criteer, hmm, krytear, criete, hmnm, what you want.