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Mackie Spike USB Audio Interface with DSP

A complete recording solution from Mackie featuring a 24-bit/96k USB Audio/MIDI interface, great-sounding Mackie preamps, incredibly easy Tracktion recording software.

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"Easy on the ear, Easier on the wallet..." submitted February 28, 2006

By a customer from ma.rr.com
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Musical Background: Audio Engineer
Music Style: Traditional Christian
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Sound: I use our Mackie Spike 4 times per week to record live performances at our Church. Our recordings include everything from spoken voice to music specials. The sound quality of our recordings is very good to great. Feature: What can I say... It does what I need it to do... very well! Ease of Use: Having a computer/audio background, I took to the interface like a duck to water. However, several training sessions each were required for our less experienced technicians. Quality: Our Spike routinely travels with me between home office and church sound booth in a softside computer bag. Needless to say, it's been banged around a bit but is none the worse for wear. Value: For the solution it has provided and what we paid for it...I'd say it was a pretty good value. Manufacturer Support: I haven't had to call tech support. The included documentation had enough pictures that even a guy can plug this thing together and make it go. Hint: Register your product...Mackie does contact you periodically with updates! The Wow Factor: Practical design. Sleek look. Perfect footprint for a crowded sound booth. Overall: I plan to use the Mackie Spike for our recording needs for the forseeable future. It simply does what it's designed to do, processes live sound well and didn't eat a hole in my wallet. I'd give it a 10 but I'm not the kind of person that says anything is perfect...But then again, I can't really think of anything I'd change.
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"Definitley worth a look!" submitted August 23, 2004

By a customer from hotmail.com
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Music Style: rock, alternative
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Sound: I've only had it a few weeks, but so far I think it sounds great. Feature: Lots of extra features (like compression while recording vocals) make this a step above the alternatives. I want to respond to a previous reviewer that said you may need to buy a new sound card in addition to the Spike system- but the XD-2 (part of Spike) is an audio interface- that IS a sound card. There's no need to buy another one. Not sure what he was smokin'... Or maybe a sleazy sales guy told him otherwise...? Quality: The build quality seems very solid. The casing is metal, and I have a feeling that I could throw it against a wall and it'd be fine- but I think I'll hold off on that test... Value: Good value for what you get. Manufacturer Support: The only time I talked to Mackie was right before this came out- I called about the ship date of the Spike system. Unfortunatley I got four different answers from four different people about when the damn thing was coming out- I'd appreciate someone saying "I don't know" if they really don't have an answer. But, it was very easy to get in touch with them, with minimal hold time. The Wow Factor: I guess we've all got our fetishes, but mine doesn't include hardware. Still, this is a funky-looking piece of gear, and the vertical design saves space on my desk. Overall: I plan on using this for years, and I'm confident that it'll last a long time.
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"It's fine as long as you own a Mac" submitted November 28, 2005

By a customer from chairgrrl.com
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Musical Background: engineer, producer, film maker, musician
Music Style: rock, jazz
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Overall: This product should have never been sold to Windows users. I am an expert in computers and use both Macs and Wintel machines for audio and video production. The Spike system has basic problems in Windows that I haven't seen since 1995. Clearly Mackie needs that 96% market share, so maybe they should hire some engineers who are familiar with Windows programming. It works fine on just about any old computer as long as that computer was manufactured by Apple.
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"Spike looks good on paper but is a sure path to a migraine" submitted September 18, 2005

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Musical Background: Active Musician
Music Style: Rock
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Sound: Too much electronic noise pickup for my taste with TS-connection. On balanced, pretty quiet and fare amount of headroom. Not bad at all. Like the very useful DSP on the box itself. Feature: Pretty good, like very much the Tracktion software that comes with it. Some nice plugins, especially LM-IV drum machine. Drivers? Aarrggghhh!!!! This things been on the market for 6 monts (at time of writing) and they still don't have more than alpha firmware support for 24/96, and that won't (ever?) be full-duplex. Quality: Looks good and solid, but first unit had something loose inside and sounded like baby toy, exchanged it and the new one (one week) just sitting on my desk has dropped both of those kewl aluminum Mackie logo's and lo/hi-Z switch gets stuck at times. I've pressed it probably 50 times and I estimate another 50 left before it fails. I'm afraid of using the unit for the fear of braking it. Value: Too much FUNCTIONAL competition in this price range. Good product idea but spoilt with quality control and drivers, also, what's a USB1.1 interface doing in this thing? I MIGHT rethink about this product after they've ironed out the problems. Assume it takes at least another 6 onths. Manufacturer Support: No personal contact, though mackie's forums seem to be crying for some attention. The Wow Factor: A lot of looks and potential functionality. As it is, I'd rather use it in a duck hunt as a projectile than a musical production tool. Headache. Would look very stylish as a paperweight. Overall: Nope, not for me. It has everything to satisfy me, except for the small problem of not working. At all. Can't wait for months for Mackie to fix driver issues or this thing to brake down. Need to work too. Going to be replaced while I still can. Firebox is my best bet. I don't wan't to pay for broken gear!
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"Stay away from the Mackie Spike!!!!!" submitted May 10, 2005

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Musical Background: Hobbyist
Music Style: Rock, blues, guitar music.
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Sound: Sounds fine unless you want to listen to both S/PDIF and Analog inputs at the same time. It won't do that. It also won't do 96k in and out at the same time. Feature: DSP is fine, when it works. If you have a SiS chipset motherboard, good luck getting this thing to work. Quality: Horrible horrible horrible horrible horrible horrible horrible drivers, especially WDM mode. ASIO works, sometimes. Value: It doesn't work. Manufacturer Support: They couldn't help. Tier one tech support just tells you to reinstall the same lousy drivers over and over. Tier two support tells you "I usually support twelve-thousand-dollar mixers" and "we have less trouble with Macs". The Wow Factor: Good item if it worked. Overall: I returned it after a nightmare week+. I went to great lengths to get this working. I even swapped out my motherboard to fix its USB/DSP connectivity, then two days later another feature (ASIO drivers) broke. Some features (WDM drivers) never worked at any time. The M-Audio Firewire Solo is a great replacement for the lousy Mackie Spike.
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