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Help Me Pick A Mixer
- Thread starter gotmule?
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Pay a bit more and get a Mixwizard 16:2
The PA you're putting together will be good enough for renting and you don't want to be short on channels...
Good luck...
The PA you're putting together will be good enough for renting and you don't want to be short on channels...
Good luck...
I use a Mackie Onyx 1640 (w/ the firewire card) mostly for recording bands in my project studio, but I've occasionally used it for club gigs.
It's really in a different class than most of the small, budget boards considered here. Add the firewire option and a laptop and you can make multitrack recordings of your live shows.
OTOH, if you could get by with some of the mini-mixers you're considering, then you'd be carrying almost three times the mixer you need in the 1640, and it might be a bit of a spacehog if you're playing intimate stages. Also, you'd need to carry outboard effects. (Although that could be an opportunity, as the FX built into budget boards tend to compete on convenience rather than sonic quality.)
It's really in a different class than most of the small, budget boards considered here. Add the firewire option and a laptop and you can make multitrack recordings of your live shows.
OTOH, if you could get by with some of the mini-mixers you're considering, then you'd be carrying almost three times the mixer you need in the 1640, and it might be a bit of a spacehog if you're playing intimate stages. Also, you'd need to carry outboard effects. (Although that could be an opportunity, as the FX built into budget boards tend to compete on convenience rather than sonic quality.)
I would vote for the Mackie Fx not because I know it's better or worse than the other choices, but only because I've used one successfully for the last 12 or so years in a hundred configurations, have lots of great mix experiences behind me and can't remember even once when it failed to get the job done well. If I have to think of a criticism its that the effects are only adequate, but even there the controls offer a decent range of options.
I concur.
The MW is much better than Mackie (except Onyx), and preferable to the Soundcraft and Onyx for various reasons.
Jazzdogg
Less barking, more wagging!
One more vote for an A&H MixWiz. The pre-amps are far better than Yamaha's, and they provide up to 6 separate monitor mixes and the ability to run aux-fed subs.
You won't be sorry!
You won't be sorry!
That's a good price on a good mixer. My guess it's an earlier one without the firewire card but, even so, I'd grab it. You can add the firewire card later if you want.
