Would you attempt this as a recording board?

[fldrummer]

http://www.mackie.com/namm/tt24.html

http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM04/Content/Mackie/PR/TT24.html


It just seems alot of bang for the buck. But it's still a live board w/ scene automation which could make it easier to go from diffrent set ups.....I can't bealive their's no inserts on the auxes or groups!!!! The guys at mackie are raving about the mic pres. Has optical ADAT out. Might be worth a shot. It could allow you to track 24 channels of Mic inputs with full HPF/Gate/Comp/EQ on all channels tho. That's a nice feature.

 

[SonicAlbert]

I spent a lot of time with that board at the NAMM show, and got a full demo. I suggested to them that they add a few studio oriented features to it and put it in their line up under their two new digital boards. I personally preferred it over the other boards. The list price is $6,900 (at least I think they said list, not street).

What I'm not sure of is whether the analog and digital lightpipe inputs can be used at the same time. 32 analog inputs and 24 digital inputs at once would be killer.

 

[fldrummer]

Here's what you can do...You can use the 3 optical inputs and use 3 of the new 800rs for them then you have a analoge 48ch console!!(you switch between channels on the faders) Their's only DSP processing on the main 24 channels tho so you have to run them through a bus for compression ect.. But when you think about it..their sayin the street price will be around 5,000 and the 800r is around 1,000 a piece. so thats 3,000 for an extra 24 channels w/o dsp or optical direct out! so for 2k more you can add another full console with 72 channels 48 w/ mic pres for 10k. That might be the way to go! Do check out the mackie forum on their site..their's alot of info on their.

 

[SonicAlbert]

Any 8 channel AD unit with lightpipe would work I suppose, which would cut the cost further. Like a Firestation for example.

The lightpipe I/O's are 44.1/48 only I believe.

It could actually work pretty well with a DAW. If you used an interface like a MOTU 2408 for the digital outs to the board, and then 24 channels of DA conversion, you'd be able to mix out of the box, although the interesting thing about this new Mackie is that it is not analog, it's a digital board. So what you'd REALLY want is 48 channels of digital in. They may offer that on one of the expansion boards. Three more lightpipe inputs there would be stellar. Ideally, some way to get 96k in there would be nice.