mjbphotos
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I've had my Mackie PRO FX-12 mixer for 8 years now, gets used at least a couple of dozen times a year. Never had any issues with it, but I do know someone who had a newer model Mackie and had issues with a bad channel and non-working reverb.
So a few weeks ago, at the open mic I host, the 2nd-to-last performer shouted into his mic and there was some awful distortion from the right side speaker. I just turned it down via the volume control on the speaker.
Later, I tested everything, thinking it might have been a bad cable (I had joined 2 XLRs that night), but no, it turns out it is the right-side output on the mixer itself. I've been daisy-chaining the 2 PA speakers since then, but it has made me nervous that whatever happened to that one output could eventually happen to the left side too. In an emergency, I could hook up to the monitor output (I haven't tried it to ensure it doesn't have the bad sound from the right side output, but guess I should!)
Guessing it is some component in the output stage of the mixer?
So a few weeks ago, at the open mic I host, the 2nd-to-last performer shouted into his mic and there was some awful distortion from the right side speaker. I just turned it down via the volume control on the speaker.
Later, I tested everything, thinking it might have been a bad cable (I had joined 2 XLRs that night), but no, it turns out it is the right-side output on the mixer itself. I've been daisy-chaining the 2 PA speakers since then, but it has made me nervous that whatever happened to that one output could eventually happen to the left side too. In an emergency, I could hook up to the monitor output (I haven't tried it to ensure it doesn't have the bad sound from the right side output, but guess I should!)
Guessing it is some component in the output stage of the mixer?