Upgrade my Soundcraft M8 mixer?

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Upgrade from Soundcraft M8?

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Hi. I have a Soundcraft M8 mixer which I've found to be a nice decent mixer and a bit of a bargain for the price! I'm curious to know what would be a good upgrade or if I'd need to spend serious bucks to notice any significant difference in audio quality? I only need 8 mic pres but any extra may be useful in the long run.
 
I assume you're talking about the pre's. If so, you'd need to spend some serious bux for a noticeable difference in sound quality.
 
Yes I'm talking about the pres but I also mean the entire signal chain. I would like it to be as uncoloured and transparent as possible. I use my mixer as my main monitor control and to setup various headphone mixes and also use the pres for a different flavour when needed!
 
Well, I use an A&H mixwiz for just that. It's my main uncolored pre's for generic recording, and I use it's aux busses and stereo returns for monitoring. But my point is I don't think the pre's ayou have listed are going to give you a noticeable sonic improvement over your Soundcraft. While the Midas is a well respected console, if you don't push the levels in youe Soundcraft, it will be clean and transparent. Where the difference lies in pre's is in the high end stuff,ie; API, Neve, GR, etc.
My humble, personal philosophy on this is to use neutral pre's (like you alreday have) for most stuff and then have one or two or three uniquely colored pre's or channel strips for flavor.
 
i once had the same question,
at first i wanted to change from M8 into Mixwiz,
but i ended up getting me an A&H GS3,

i think the M8 sounds more clean than the GS3 i got,
my eqs do sound a bit better, have more routing options but the overal signal isn't as clean as in the M8

the M8 is one of the cleanest sounding little (analog) mixers i've used, a Mackie VLZ pro is **** compared to it,
all behringer stuff seems rediculous once you compared

Getting yourself a Mixwiz will give you a bit more options but i don't think you'll really upgrade the sound quality

My conclusion? i'd stick with it and get yourself an external Pre. Best thing is just a pre, without compression and eq,
used a few channel strips with no extremely great results,

my next buy will probably be a DMP3, simple and clean
 
Thanks for the info guys. I'm quite suprised. I was expecting you to say that the Allen & Heath and Midas would be in a totally different league to the M8. I have to say that I'm am extremely impressed with the results I've had so far. I am thinking of upgrading my a few things - mics, pres, desk etc and was wondering if upgrading my M8 would make a big improvement seeing as it's kind of the heart of my studio.
I'm pleased to hear that I'm not gonna get any improvemant over my M8 this side of $$$$$ so I'll use the extra money to buy a decent pre ( DAV BG1, SPL Gainstation, True Systems Solo, UA 110 ) and a decent vocal mic!
 
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