Soundcraft Spirit E12

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Im wondering about this mixer (E12 or 8). Its made by soundcraft, which is fairly respected right...? Well right now I have a cheapo Behringer....sad i know i know... i was thinking abotu buying a pre amp or two, than i realized this mixer is only $429 and it has more channels and more features.....

I'm wondering really about the sound quality, i know this is one of soundcrafts lowest series, but how are the pre amps, and eq, and such.... any help or advice is much appreciated.....

also thinking about the Yamaha MX12/6 (http://www.samash.com/catalog/showi...&Search_Type=SEARCH&GroupCode=nonetodaythanks)

and any other suggestions around 500 or lower would be cool
 
I just bought a soundcraft E12 and it is very good. It's replacing my crappy Behringer Eurorack MX802a. I used to use an Art TPS tube preamp for my mics, but I'm ditching that too and just using the pres on the soundcraft cuz they sound better.

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The E series is good, the M series is even better. I would get the M series for the A/D via SPDF. They are a little more money but much more versatile.
 
What is the benefit of having the digital outs? If you had SPDIF inputs on your soundcard and connected it to the mixer, would the soundcard receive all the track information or would it just receive a mixed signal?
 
There are just some external effects that I want to put my final mix through. i.e RNC across the mix buss or a finalizer multiband. This requires coming out the sound card and back in. I would prefer to do this with SPDIF than analog for signal integrity.

Also, if you have the SPDIF going in, instead of analog for things like compression on vocal tracks, its going to be a cleaner signal.

All in the name of the cleanest signal and or high quality, this is why you want to use the SPIDF capabilities of the M1.

Regarding your question on a summed signal vs tracks, generally you could do either one with limitations. Either L/R stereo mix or 2 separate tracks. More of a problem with live mixes than building tracks in a studio situation.
 
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