everyones opinion on the 8pre please

[Rick03079]

Hi everyone,
I am thinking of getting a couple of 8pre's to use on location instead of dragging out my mixer. I have seen different problems on here and am just wondering what the opinions are of the people who own and/or use them.
I want to daisy chain 2 units and go firewire into a macpro which I dont own yet

Thanks folks,

Rick

[Pappy725]

I love mine! I've got it lightpiped into my 828mkII and it all works flawlessly. It's nice having the 20dB pad and phantom power switches on each channel too.
HTH,
Stephen

[sourgrapes]

i use it the same as pappy and it works great

i also simultaneously firewire my laptop into it and run guitar rig and SVX on that, so i can record guitar and bass tracks real time through them into my DAW without tasking my g5 (which is doing enough already...)!

fwiw, i did have to return the first one i received as channel 2 did not work - just hissed and buzzed and whined

and the toggles for pad and 48V are mounted / hardwired to the circut board itself, not the outer casing of the unit, so it feels like they might break loose if you tend to be heavy-handed...

[timothyclee]

I've got three 8 pre's hooked up to my MacBook pro for live recording. I've recorded sucesfully all 24 inputs live @ 24bit 48khz with no problems to the internal drive. I have been doing some location recording for live bands here in town and have not had a hiccup at all. The sound of the pres are pretty good, and for location/live stuff you are not going to tell much of a difference anyways. I'm looking at adding a fourth for 32 pre's. That would be an ultimate setup. They work awesome and would recommend them to anyone. I'm sure they would work just as well on a Macbook, or earlier g4 laptp as well.

Tim