Starting from scratch..
At Mackie, our expertise designing great
sounding, ultra-reliable compact mixers goes without saying. We
practically built this company on the shoulders of our hallmark blue
and red knobs, legendary XDR preamps and VLZ circuitry. So why develop
a whole new small-format analog mixer line from scratch? Call us crazy,
but we felt it was time.
High-performance analog mixers for the digital era
The goal for the Onyx Series was no short
order: small-format analog mixers with more useful features, better
sound quality, advanced tonal shaping and full FireWire connectivity
options. To accomplish all this, we assembled a hybrid engineering team
led by famed analog engineer Cal Perkins and digital guru Chris Jubien.
We also couldn’t keep Greg Mackie from adding things as we went along
(like 4-segment LED metering on every channel). Two years and almost
nine thousand cups of coffee later, we had our flagship Onyx Series.
Delivering the premium goods
The Onyx 1220, 1620 and 1640 start with
Mackie’s new Onyx mic preamps, which meet or surpass any standalone mic
preamp on the market in terms of pure fidelity and head-room (and yes,
we have the specs to prove it). Next up is our completely new Perkins
EQ circuitry, a “neo classic” 3- and 4-band design which gives you the
sweet musicality of British EQ with greater filter control and minimum
phase shift (plus a true hardware EQ bypass). This analog brilliance is
paired with a full-featured discrete Auxiliary section, a completely
redesigned mix bus and summing amp section, and a built-in Talkback
section with onboard mic. (Because Mackie mixers are still made for the
real world of mixing, not just audio testing equipment.)
Features
- Premium 16-channel small-format analog mixer with all-new circuitry
- 8 new ONYX mic preamps with sound comparable to boutique preamps
- New 4-band Perkins EQ with dual sweepable midrange controls provides warmer, more musical sound
- 96K FireWire option for streaming 16 independent channels of audio to computer with zero latency input monitoring through mixer
- 2 channels of monitoring from computer via FireWire option card
- 4 Aux sends w/ Pre/Post switches
- 4 stereo line-level inputs
- Built-in Talkback section for use with internal or external mic
- True hardware EQ Bypass
- "Planet-Earth" ± power supply
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Individual 48v Phantom Power switches on all mic input
