i sold it for 2500, negociable

the 8•Bus series was designed to eliminate the last barrier between you and audio creativity -- the 32•8, 24•8 are capable of sound quality equal to or better than that of $100,000 consoles. 8•Bus consoles have recorded more platinum albums and major motion picture soundtracks than any other mixer in their class -- they set the standard for affordable 8-bus consoles. Excellent for project studios and digital multitrack recording, when combined with digital multitrack or hard disk recording systems, a Mackie 8•Bus console can create not just major label CDs, but major motion picture soundtracks and network quality commercials.

I have been using one of these for 15 years, It has been a great board. I have a few faders and pots to replace but it has been dependable.
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so, why did you sell it? i gotta disagree with ya on the equal or better than that of $100k consoles man.. i had a 32.8 and if you turned the gain up more than halfway on the inputs the signal turned shit. the eq's were sloppy and you had to put the power supply the length of the entire cable's distance away to not hear the fan howlin away. of course, i didnt notice that until i went to recording school and got time on a few other consoles that i realized how shitty mine were at home. and we didn't have amazing boards, A couple soundcraft boards and something that looked really cool but the phantom power was always busted and half the mutes and solos didnt work, so i never got any time on it.

the point is those boards aren't even in the range of more than $10k and they sound phenomenally better.

hell. a fully loaded API 1608 is $49,900 at vintage king. of course its only half the channels.. but pound for pound i would say it beats the hell of the mackies pres, eq's, and overall sound.

and 8 buss consoles have recorded more platinum albums? I don't have any facts to back this next statement, but i dont think did when you made yours. the majority of studios that had an 8 buss used them for monitoring only, coming in from really nice and expensive rackmounted pre's, comps, & Fx.



when i had the thing i did enjoy the flexibility of routing in the thing, and was a great introductory console when i got into recording, but i would hardly put it on par with other consoles in a price range almost $95k above itself.. or even half that.

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