Soundcraft Spirit Live 24 outs

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Soundcraft Spirit Live 24

I've found one of these cheap so far on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI...6488&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT#ebayphotohosting

Does anybody know how many outputs these mixers have and if they have any direct outs?
If so I might just pick a soundcraft mixer over the Behringer 2442FX

Speaing of direct outs, I'm starting to think I won't really need them. I think I'll do all EQ with software. Would I be better off getting a sountcraft mixer just for the pres and running out the inserts?

Also, do all the channels with XLR inputs have preamps?

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Nobody know anything about these old sountcraft mixers???
 
I think the spirits are part of Soundcraft's budget line of mixers. I have'nt used one and don't know how they compare anyone else's budget line of mixers.
 
I've never looked closely at the 324 Live. It is a digital board, so I suspect that any direct outs will be digital. I don't know whether or not it has channel inserts. However, for audio quality I suspect that it will be a very good unit. I've used a number of budget mixers to do live recordings, and I've found that I like the Spirit mic pres better than anything else I've tried (Mackie, Yamaha, several others). They're still just generic mic pres - they won't give you a lot of "character" or "color" - but they do sound quite good. My assessment is based on the Spirit328, which is in the same family as the board you are considering.
 
I have and have used a soundcraft spirit ES for a while now, It's actually a really good mixer on par with mackie at the same pricepoint in my opinion.

I am selling my ES because I am going in-computer mixing but at the moment I still prefer the spirit because I am not used to mousing the slider yet instead of using real sliders! I'm hoping my opinion will change as i get more used to using computer based mixing.
 
So would be mixer in the link above be better as far as noise and preamps go?
Still tossing up between it and either a UB/SL Behringer 2442FX. The UB2442FX, direct outs both UB and SL have subgroups. The SL has 16 preamps, the UB has 10 and the soundcraft I'm looking at has 24.

I suppose direct outs won't really matter because I'm going to make my own cables that will run the inserts from a bridged TRS (tip and ring interconnected) to RCA straight into my Delta 1010LT card. I've read that this works on nearly all mixers.
I think I'm also going to make cables to run from the 8 rca outs back into the line inputs so I can use the physical faders for the monitoring and mixdown.

Subgroups would be handy I think for grouping similar tracks like drums, horns vocals guitar while mixing.

At the moment I'm leaning toward the Berry mixers just for the subgroups but I'm still not sure

I actually just found the user guide, right at the bottom is technical specs, can somebody that knows their stuff a little better than I have a look for me and tell me if the specs are good or bad
http://www.soundcraft.com/download....guides/spirit_live/Spirit_live_user_guide.pdf
 
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Just won the soundcraft spirit live 24 track :) $407, not a bad deal I don't think. Picking it up in a week or two.
I'll probably post a comparison to the behringer UB series mixer and MIC200 preamps
 
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