Mackie Spike Reviews

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Mackie Spike Description
Recording music on a computer is incredibly easy with Spike, a complete digital recording solution from Mackie for your Mac or PC. The Spike system consists of the XD-2 24-bit 96kHz USB Audio/MIDI Interface featuring clean, high-headroom Mackie mic preamps and onboard SHARC® dynamics processing. Easy-to-use Tracktion 2 Music Production Software features unlimited track count and VST plug-in support, plus a full suite of Mackie mixing and mastering tools. Quite simply, Spike is the easiest open-ended system for computer music production.

[jhanzair]

Quality: 10
I haven't seen anything built better than this (only in far away price ranges). The whole thing is made of quite thick aluminium. Really sturdy. All the connections and buttons seem pretty high quality.

Reliability: 6
If I was reviewing this simply based on my experience on my mac, I'd give it a 10, no brainer. The onl thing I had to o was drag the app to the app folder and plug the XD-2 in. Then along came Windows. Windows Vista - forget it, they don't even have drivers for it. With Windows XP, I've never been able to make it work. Install drivers, it works, then stops working... Well, as I never use my Windows machine for audio recording it doesn't bother me.

Overall Rating: 8
If you have a mac - don't even blink. If you're in Windows... Well, I would't recommend it.