This year we are interested in installing a new soundboard. The soundbard that exists is 20 years old, it is really starting to die on us, it cuts out, ports are dieing left right and center and it is showing the wear of being in a high school theatre. Our theatre has 3 sets of speakers (2 speakers behind the audience, 2 speakers built into the proscenium and 2 on the back wall of the stage) we also use a booth monitor, we have 4 mic jacks on the stage, we use 3 CD Players(L&R 1/4 Phone lines), A tape deck (L&R 1/4 Phone line) a hanging mic in finality it all coverges in the booth and is mixed there, as well we are 4 adding wireless mics to the mix soon! 

Got any suggestion of a good mixer that will allow us to mix all these signals and is within a decent price range

(PS. due to the nature of our school, it is probably a good idea for all the plugins to be on the backside of mixer to minimize the number of people unplugging chords)

We have had excellent results with Mackie.  They have a 16 channel board that would probably work quite well for your application.  You can get more information from http://www.mackie.com - www.mackie.com .

John

I definitely agree, Mackie makes some good stuff.  If you are looking for a more portable setup, that can be used primarily in a theatre, but can be moved if needed, genz benz makes a pretty good rolling system with a board, cd/tape/mp3 system and amps built into one rolling console, and all you need to do is plus stuff in the back.  Very nice.

Our school has one for outdoor events, seeing as we have a huge Soundcraft K3 32 channel, which is wayy to bulky to move around