Carvin mixers...

[Treeline]

Good / bad / indifferent?

A 24 ch 8-bus S/L (Carvin's high end) with a meter bridge is about $2K. Any experiences to shed light on the bang-for-the-buck issue?

Let the games begin...

[apl]

FWIW, I've got a Carvin powered mixer which has been very good. Here's a thread on Carvin gear in general.

[boingoman]

Please don't. Some of their gear is cool, but....
If you are looking to do anything remotely pro the specs on their site tell the story. This is a noisy board. The crosstalk spec sucks. Basically if you run something into one channel there is a good chance you will be able to hear it on another. And if it is for live work, it looks like you could sneeze it into little pieces.

Get a used Mackie 24x8, Behringer Eurodesk, or save up and buy an older Allen and Heath- not as many features but clean and smooth-sounding.

[Hard2Hear]

i hate them

i rarely say that about gear.

used one doing a favor for a guy, wouldn't give you $100 for one.

h2h