Just brought a used Mackie Onyx 1220

[Mr Blues]

I have brought a used Mackie onyx premium mixer from a used gear website at a very reasonable price.

Man this baby rocks.

It took me a while to get my head round it but after messing about and twaeking I was able to get a lush warm sound.

I could'nt beiieve the clarity and the clean high headroom mic pre's plus the very wide frequency response.
The reason I got this mixer was because the 1220 is older then the 1220 i.

I prefer the slightly older Mackie mixers, I did try the new Pro FX 8 and it came no where near the quailty of the older Mackie compact mixers.

I did a gig tonight and in the gig was a group of sound engineers from Sweeden who were in the UK for the Expo exhibition.
I asked if any of them were musicians too and they said yes, so I asked if anyone of them will do a song on my guitar so i can hear it from the audience.

This young pretty girl came on the mic and her friend used my guitar.
She sang a cover folk song and let me tell you I just could'nt believe the sound quality.

A week ago or so I was raving about my Mackie DFX 6 and soundcraft M4 but this Mackie Onyx blows both of them away by miles.

I did hear that the 1202 has issues with firewire options but as a live mixer all I can say is wow!

What also blew me away was the very warm and musical EQ, just made everything sound sweeter.

Dave

 

[BushmasterM4]

Congrats. I have a 1640 with the firewire card and have no issues at all. For every issue you have 1000 satisfied customers. And usually its a pc problem (driver conflict). Anyway enjoy

 

[Mr Blues]

Cheers Bushmaster.

Now and again you get a good bargin on the net or in a shop like Cash Convertors.

Now some Cash convertors shops are ridiculasly expensive but they have lots of branches and some of the branches in the smaller towns have used gear at a very reasonable price.

Dave

I take back what I said about the Onyx i series of Mackie's , i understand that several on this forum are really happy with them.

Its just that I had a bad experiance with the entry level Pro FX 8, and they are made in the new Mackie Factory and I think they used cheaper components.

But I hear that the Onyx i are built great and sound great.
Dave