Mackie DFX6

[Mr Blues]

I have finally found my dream compact mixer( mind you its a fair size for a compact mixer)which i brought yesterday.The Mackie DFX6

It cost £169.00.

This mackie DFX6 lives up to its name ,very good mic pre's ,XLR outputs left and right very warm and beautiful sound, it took me a little while to adjust the right sound but i was there i was well pleased.


Dave

[Nei57]

im glad ur happy with it.i was also thinking of buying it,but the salesguys in feedback, music store of rotterdam, holland, told me they dont sell it, because it s noisy.
u dont have any troubles with the hum/noise?

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Originally Posted by Nei57

im glad ur happy with it.i was also thinking of buying it,but the salesguys in feedback, music store of rotterdam, holland, told me they dont sell it, because it s noisy.

With the exception of high-end custom houses or boutique shops, there has only extremely rarely in the history of the planet been a retailer whom, when they did not offer a product, the reason was because of product quality. And when it does happen, it's often followed shortly by an actual product recall by the manufacturer, be cause the product is seriously defective.

9999 times out of 10,000 it's for a far more pedestrian business reason such as their distributor does not offer it, their buyer could not get a good deal from a wholesaler, the manufacturer cannot produce enough of them to keep their required inventory up, the dealer did not meet a particular sales level or quality criteria required by the manufacturer to be an authorized dealer, or the dealer already has similar product or products they feel they can sell for a higher sales volume or profit margin. Things like that.

They'd sell two soup cans tied together with a string if they thought they could sell enough of them for a high enough profit.

G.

[undrgrnd studio]

I have a DFX12. The pres are a bit noisy with a background white noise. It seems you have barely any volume until you get real high on the pots and then you run into some noise. Don't get me wrong, they are useable and I am using currently. But I have been chipping away at getting enough standalone Pres to get rid of the unit all together. I just got an Art MPA Gold today that I can't wait to plug in mess around with. That leaves me with just one mic still going through the mackie.

I would describe the Mackie DFX pres as warm (almost like tape saturation), noisy, low headroom, and overall lacking crisp high end. For the price though, you do indeed get a lot for your money. The EQ is worthless though, and the effects are mostly unuseable.

[tabiggs]

Dave, congrats! The DFX6 is a nice little board. I'm a Mackie fan as well. I have an older (analog) Mackie 1202 VLZ Pro that I will not soon part with. While I don't use it as much as other equip I own, I find that when I need that certain "analog" sound it is there for me. I've used it for as a guitar DI Box, pre-amp for my condenser mics, and as a recording front-end for my Echo AudioFire soundcard. Soon, (just for fun) I'm going to try using it for recording voice and guitar into my Olympus LC-10 portable digital recorder.

As mixers go, Mackie preamps may not the best of the lot, but they are solid with very useable headroom. Have fun with your Mackie!