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Had a Mackie 24-8 in the studio before switching to a Digital 8 Bus, which I still have. Was a huge Mackie fan back in the day. They seem to have lost their way since Loud bought them out. Still, I hope Greg Mackie has his own private island and is sipping drinks with little umbrellas in them. 
Just picked up a Soundcraft Si Expression 3 for the band I'm putting together. It's very nicely done.
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Christopher Duncan wrote: I hope Greg Mackie has his own private island and is sipping drinks with little umbrellas in them.
As long as he lives like Jimmy Buffet and doesn't go the way of John McAfee.
What do you think of the D8? I've considered picking one of those up to replace the 24-8.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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For studio use I love the D8B. I originally bought it for the flying faders and ability to save and replay mechanical mixes. These days I do all my mixing in the box with my DAW and so don't use that functionality. However, it's great to be able to save and recall mixer setups, and of course being a digital mixer the patching is great.
I still use a Mackie HDR for tracking because it's zero latency. I have 24 tracks of ADAT light pipe giong between the D8B and HDR, so the signal chain is digital once it hits the mixer. After I've recorded the tracks, I use Filezilla to FTP them off of the HDR and bring them into Cubase for my mixing and work "in the box" from that point on.
The D8B is "old technology" these days, so you should be able to get a good deal on one. If you can snag an HDR while you're at it, I highly recommend the combination.
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By the way, after lots of gear upgrades this year I have a number of things I'm going to be selling in January, including a Yamaha GA 32 analog mixer, lots of Martin RoboColor IIs and 218 scanners as well as a couple of MiniMac Profile moving heads (DMX controlled lighting), a couple of follow spots, and some smaller things like Lexicon & Alesis fx units, RNC compressors, etc.
If you know of anyone who would be interested, point them to the contact page on my web site.
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Will do, thanks for the info on th D8B. 
You selling yours?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Couldn't part with it. Not only do I love the thing, I paid close to $10k as I recall. They're on eBay now for about $1k. That would be too painful. I'll ride this pony 'til it drops.
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Can't say as I blame you.
When you get a nice peice of equipment it's hard to part with it. You get comfortable with the work flow. I use my 24-8 to feed a Layla 3G and record using Tracktion (Mackie...) and just hit record. The biggest issue I have is that it's hard to watch and adjust the levels when I'm playing. I usually need to adjust levels based on the previous recording. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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The Layla looks nice, I've heard good things about them.
By the way, whenever you're buying new gear, this ia a company I just started doing business with.
www.rncaudiodirect.com[^]
Four guys in Memphis and they had the best price by far on the Soundcraft console - $2600 when map is $3000 and the best most were doing was $2800.
Their service is also outstanding. Got the console and it had a bad fader. It was a new unit, not reconditioned, but you know stuff happens sometimes, especially with tech gear. These guys moved heaven and earth to take care of me. It's a fairly new and popular mixer out of the UK and they, their distributor and even Soundcraft US are out of stock. 30 days or so to get a new one in.
I told the guy that the defect was cosmetic (color on the channel strip was AFU) so I'd just live with it until a new unit came in. He wasn't comfortable with me having something that wasn't 100% for that long, so he had the guys in California overnight me a B stock that they'd used at NAMM as a loaner (it looks brand new) until the new stock arrives in January. Normally people want to charge you for the what they ship and then credit your card when you ship the old one back, but that's not what they did. In fact, I still have the bad one sitting downstairs waiting for a UPS pickup.
Very impressed with these guys. Don't think they sell used gear, but for new stuff they're on my first call list.
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Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I work with the author of Boom Recorder if that's of any interest to you?
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Currently running Cubase for my recording software, but I've been through all the DAWs - Pro Tools, Logic, Cakewalk / Sonar, etc.
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I *own* a Soundcraft mixer. Does that count? 
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Only if you know how to hack it so that the isolate function for cues is stored at the cue rather than show level.
Which one do you have?
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Today, one year has passed since a totally pointless act of cowardice and cruelty.
![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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And I'm betting nothing much has really changed there since... 
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Yes, they have gained awareness.
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True. A (very) long way to go, but it's a start.
/ravi
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Every travel starts with one step.
Now it's all about keeping the momentum and direction.
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Absolutely. 
/ravi
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/ravi
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Also 'Nirbhaya' means 'Fearless'.
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Its too late to notice and reply however I must say the The rate of Rape in Delhi have increased 125% after that sad indecent.
Delhi is called Rape capital of India!
![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Believe Yourself™
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That's scary, I utterly hope it is because the victims are more inclined to report to the police.
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(Just to make a change from the rants about Sky.)
My parents' landline died on 5th November. I reported the problem for them, and was told it wouldn't be fixed until the 15th November. Not even remotely close to their "3 working days", but at least they told us up front, and they did manage to fix it by late evening on the day.
Fast-forward thee and a half weeks, to 11th December. The line died again, and this time BT claimed they would fix it by 5PM on 16th December. At the moment (around 8PM on 16th December), their site is still claiming that it will be fixed by 5PM today. 
I've just spoken to someone in their call-centre, and been told that they have to replace 70m of underground cable, and it won't be fixed until the evening of 19th December. 
Which raises some obvious questions:
- Presumably they knew before 7:30 this evening that it was going to take longer to fix than they'd initially thought?
- That being the case, would it not be a good idea to contact the customer to give them an update?
- Or at least update the elephanting website with the new estimate?
The phrase "completely useless bunch of sunshines" springs to mind.
Also, "couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery that was already holding a piss-up, and when you walk through the door, the receptionist asks, 'Would you like a free piss-up?'."
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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