I just had a few questions for anyone that could help me out. I want to set up a little studio at my house and I am looking to getting a new iMac and logic. I want something with at least 8 mic preamp's and about 1000. This guy looked really cool to me and i like that it has the 192 khz output. But there is no firwewire. How would i go about connecting it? What are my options. Thanks a lot.

Hey i'm currently *planning* on putting together a PA system, but I also want a little setup to lay down some tracks. I'm interested in the Mackie Onyx 1640 because of the obvious. I could use it for my PA and use the firewire card and lay down 16 tracks.

I'm kind of new at setting things up in a studio, so please bear with me. I'd really appreciate any help I can get.

I just bought a Tascam MSR16S tape machine. I'm having trouble getting it set up, and I'm hoping that someone here can help me.

was wondering if anyone had opinions on the quality of pre's in these two interfaces. i need a new interface and have my eye on either of these two but cant decide, any help would be appreciated :)

Seem to be getting a loud frequency noise for like 5 seconds whenever I do a lot of activity in windows. The noise is temporary, but it's still annoying. How do I get rid of it? I know it's the onyx because it did the same thing at another studio we went to. What's going on?

Hey everyone,
I just picked up this wonderful board with the firewire card and I'm using it with cubase. Its working really good, most of the time. Im having a few very light pops every now and then on the playback, I'm not too sure if it is occurring during recording. I've adjust my latency a few times and its gotten better, but it could be better still.

Ok, I just picked this guy up from L&M on the weekend and I haven't had much time to play around with it yet (2 hours) but I've noticed something that kind of bugs me. I plugged in an SM57 to record acoustic guitar with, just as a quick little test. I also plugged in a direct line from my guitars active pickup. Both lines were into pre-amp channels 1 and 2 on the 400f respectively.

Hi everyone and thanks for your help.
Problem:Low output level from the Onyx 800r and if cranked up it clips remaining soft.

Hello.

I am looking for help with a distortion problem.

I am multi-tracking using my Onyx 1620 into my iMac G5 via the Firewire card. Am using Tracktion v2 software.

To go to CD, I use the "export an audio file" option in Tracktion to export to my desktop. Then I drag the file into iTunes, then burn to CD.

there was a study done by some recording engineers a while back to see what mic preamp was the best all around pre (i cant find the link to save my life). they tested api's, avalons and quite a few others. during mid experiment one of the engineers brought a Mackie onyx board just for sh*ts and giggles. they tried it and were amazed.