Soundcraft Spirit Studio 24/8/2

[Fredrik-Ablaze]

Im about to upgrade from my good old Peavey Mark III desk from 1979 (cool as hell but something is way off with the filtering making it hum like crazy) and I found a pretty cheap Spirit Studio 24/8/2 desk.

Does any of you guys have any opinions on these? Good or totally useless?
I'm thinking along the line of buying this one since it's pretty reasonably priced and buying a one channel tube preamp to complement the Presonus Eureka that I've got as well...

What do you think?

 

[Gnash]

I have an old Sountracs console. It has all disrete channels. If the soundcraft board is built like the old sountracs consoles, it should be good!

 

[punkrockacademyfightsong]

i have workes with the soundcraft spirit studio consoles before and actually hated it pretty much. almost everything above 0 db clips really ugly (very un soundcraftish) espeacially on snares. if you like a very clean / unculloured sound it may work fine for you, i actually like to get some warmth from the desk. soundtracks however is a complete different thing, they have tons of headroom!

 

[Fredrik-Ablaze]

Allright, is it easy setting a good level that doesnt clip? There are no meter bridges for the desks that I can see

 

[punkrockacademyfightsong]

hmm, i actually don't believe it has a pad switch either so that can make it pretty hard sometimes to keep channels from clipping, especially if you have a hard hitting drummer.
a desk i could advise in the same budget range is the allen & heath mixwizzard. i found it sounds good up to almost 20 db's overload on the channel and also has pad switches per channel if you like to keap it clean.