The Mackie Control is great, I have the main unit and 1 extender with 1 more extender on the way which will give me 24 faders at my fingertips(right now I have 16). I used to use a Tascam us-429 but the lack of motorized faders made it almost as bad as using a mouse. I'm not using a mac at this time(maybe in the future) but I'm running logic audio on a PIII 1 gig and I can do 24 to 2channel mixdowns with no problem. I also have 2 midiman delta 1010's and a RME Hammerfall 9652 which will be upgraded to either 2 HDSP 9652's or 3 multifaces and 1 HDSP 9652(right now I have 16 analog and 30 digital channels of audio). I have a few SM58,SM57's and a Beta 52 but I'm in the process of adding more to my mic collection. For remote recordings I'use an Alesis HD24 but I have to get some better mic pre-amps. I'm looking at the Presonus Digimax LT's so maybe I can retire my mackie mixer which I only use for pre's. For midi work I have a yamaha mu-50, boss dr-660 drum machine and E-mu Planet Phatt. I'm a big fan of outboard analog gear so I have a few things floating around like my all time favorite DBX 120 subharmonic synthesizer, some compressors and a few home made pre-amps. I think once the next batch of G5's or whatever they'll call them come out then I'll make my move. As of right now I'm good to go.
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