Are you new to eBay or something? That price isn't all that great and they don't seem hard to find. Here's another one at 1/2 the price : http://cgi.ebay.com/MACKIE-D8B-Digi...emZ160316239727

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I'm not new to Ebay, i own one of these too. You will VERY RARELY see a brand new one for sale, plus the cards it has is a 'good to go' package

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I bought mine with no cards and i've had to spend about £1200 on cards so this really is a steal

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Eh. Getting things new is over-rated. Why pay twice what you should for something when it's just going to be 'used' after you've had it for a little while.

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agreed, ive never bought anything new, all second hand and ive had no problems with any of the stuff.

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Originally posted by alanzo Eh. Getting things new is over-rated. Why pay twice what you should for something when it's just going to be 'used' after you've had it for a little while.

You are misunderstanding what these actually are and their age mate, motorized faders take a hell of a bashing over 10 years, especially when you don't know who's been riding them(that goes for the v pots too)

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Ok guys forgive my ignorance on the subject but I've always wondered about these hardware mixers. What advantage do you get by using one of these and adjusting track levels over using the built in mixer, say in Cubase for example? Is it just the ease of use and control you have with having it physically in front of you to manipulate or is there more to it? Judging from their high cost I'm sure there is a lot to gain so please fill me in. Also, what is the purpose of the motorized sliders? They just adjust automatically saving you from doing it by hand or what?

Thanks in advance!

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Well, to be fair i've never owned one, but for the first two years of my uni days i got to spend 6 or 8 hours a day most days of the week in front of one of these bad boys, and this thread just reminded me how great it was to sit there and have direct hands on control over the mix as i wrote. Somehow i just ended up writing differently using a real desk too, i think because it was so easy to try out different combinations of sounds as the tracks play.

One day im definitely gettin me a real desk again.

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Originally posted by Magnus Ok guys forgive my ignorance on the subject but I've always wondered about these hardware mixers. What advantage do you get by using one of these and adjusting track levels over using the built in mixer, say in Cubase for example? Is it just the ease of use and control you have with having it physically in front of you to manipulate or is there more to it? Judging from their high cost I'm sure there is a lot to gain so please fill me in. Also, what is the purpose of the motorized sliders? They just adjust automatically saving you from doing it by hand or what? Thanks in advance!

Ease of use, dedicated eq/compression/gates that are of a very high standard over most DAWS built in fx. You can also get fx cards to use TC reverbs and other fx. All ran from its own cpu using none of your main computers power. The motorised faders are for automation, almost any parameter is automatable. Plus every mix can be saved for total recall

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Originally posted by Ry Thomas Ease of use, dedicated eq/compression/gates that are of a very high standard over most DAWS built in fx. You can also get fx cards to use TC reverbs and other fx. All ran from its own cpu using none of your main computers power. The motorised faders are for automation, almost any parameter is automatable. Plus every mix can be saved for total recall

Very cool thanks Ry!

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