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When
I was looking to upgrade my home studio console, your website was a big
help in my purchase of a 16 channel RM800. My old mixer was a very
basic Allen & Heath 12x2 Scepter rack mixer that sounded *sweet* (very
musical EQ), but just wasn't very flexible for my increasingly complicated
tracking needs. I needed busses, man! I stumbled across mine
on eBay for $450 and it's in excellent condition. This is another
example of a great-sounding, best-bang-for-the-buck piece of gear that
never quite makes a blip on the radar. I mainly use mine to track
drums, bass, guitar and keys into my PC/Win98 DAW, using Cool Edit Pro
and an Aardvark Systems soundcard; my monitors are Dynaudio BM5's and I
use Monster or Mogami cables. (in the photo you can see it way in
the back of the studio!) Using a good DI box and good mics, guitar
and bass record great. Tracking drums is fairly smooth; while it's
not optimal to record a kit in the same room as your recording gear (space
dictates it), it is an important feature that the RM800 is transparent
enough so I can fix any small problems later within the DAW. The
mic preamps are of good quality, but I foresee myself upgrading to some
Class A/ultra hi-fi mic pre's as soon as I can save up the dough.
The EQ is decent, a fairly basic setup; I miss my Allen & Heath's EQ,
though (those Brits know their stuff). I don't rely on the EQ too
much, seeing how all EQ-ing usually goes on inside the computer.
The main strengths of the RM800 is routing & monitoring options, good
headroom (accurate metering, what a concept); it's quiet, clean and it's
not a typical black/dark colored small mixer you have to squint at -- the
color scheme is actually waaaay better on the eyes. At my day job,
I use a Mackie 1604-VLZ (generally for monitoring only), and Mackie makes
great product, but I don't think they are as well thought out, plus I feel
cramped in whenever I twist some knobs. Yeah, the RM800's have
a fairly big footprint, but I like a roomy, simple board and long-throw
faders better.