I'ts been three years since I bought my Mackie 1202VLZ mixer, which I came to like very much shortly after buying it. Alas, but it was stolen this year on my way to Las Vegas and the ACB convention, where I'd intended it for use in the broadcast booth at Interactive and possibly at the Friends-in-Art showcase. Luckily, our own Dave Williams was also taken with it and its performance when he saw and heard it last year, that he purchased one as well and also brought it to the convention for his own use, so I did get my hands on one for one last time.
So now I'm sitting here going through the various on- and off-line music equipment ordering centers, looking for a replacement. Some no longer carry it. Some, it's on back-order for weeks. One seller recommended I make the big jump to digital and try the Onyx system--two- or four-bus model with Firewire interface, better analog-to-digital converters than the Audigy, all kinds of things that are supposedly better about it, too numerous to mention. OK, sounds good at the outset, but I'm sure it's got lots of drivers and GUI to control the thing, too, and there's my question: Has anyone tried using this thing with speech, and if so, just how accessible/useable is it? I just remember my debacle with the Guilemot card which I still have here and which is still pretty much unuseable, and I don't really want to go through something like that again. Guy on phone says, as good as the VLZ's and all the rest of that analog gear are, the digital stuff is so noticeably better. Is he selling me a bill o' goods, or should I go for it? Mind you, I'm not one to shirk a challenge, but if it's impossible, that takes the challenge out and replaces it with brick wall. I'm not into butting my head against anybody's brick wall. I want something that's going to work almost as easily as my VLZ worked. If it means going back to analog, then so be it, but if I can do the digital thing, I'd like to give it a go. Thanks in advance. _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
