Yeah I love my Mackie VLZ too, but I had to buy something that could stand up to touring
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My mackie vlz802 is built like a tank, plus i have it in a flight case so i have zero worries.
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mackies are excellent... have a 1202 vlz3 & an onyx 820i
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Also, seeing as mixers are likely to be a fairly constant, central part of your studio, I would save up a bit and get a decent one! Allen and Heath also make very good ones.
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e.s.c. wrote:
mackies are excellent... have a 1202 vlz3 & an onyx 820i
oh snap with the firewire? how much do you think about banging it?
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never, not into metal objects in that way... has some damn fine sounding EQs on it though
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Frostbyte wrote:
never bought a mackie before. Hows the sound?
they're great really. It has the same EQs and mic preamps that are in the "big boy" mackies.
But it'll definitely cost you a significant amount more than a Behringer. Is the audio quality that much better? Probably not for chip stuff to the PA, but if you're running mics into it YES. As I said I just needed something much more dependable.
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e.s.c. wrote:
never, not into metal objects in that way
HA
Danimal: Ah, then I'll stick with the behringers haha. I'm not even a live player. It fits me for my studio recordings, I don't even have to do much post on it to make it sound hot.
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Mackies are beautiful holy canole. If i feel like live vocals are something I'm into I might get one eventually but as is... I've found I'm not really much a front man, I've attempted a few times and it didn't turn out so good. I can be on stage ok but when it comes to like group efforts I tend to be a support person and not the lead, which my main chipprojects will be a group effort. But if we ever end up investing on a better mixer due to audio quality Those are definitely something I'll look into. But then again as is we're running our voices through cheap voice changers just to have a low-fi effect anyway... haha.
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also my mackie has balanced out, so you wont need a di. You can much more flexible gain structure too, so its never steered me wrong in any number of challenging (read shitty) live situations,
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TrebleChild wrote:
Mackies are beautiful holy canole.
fuck I really want a canole now
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e.s.c. wrote:
never, not into metal objects in that way... has some damn fine sounding EQs on it though
yeah ive been using a mackie 8bus at school and it sounds great but its all analog. now is there an i/o on that mackie if so how fast is it?
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havent really used the firewire aspect of it much yet, mostly due to me constantly reconfiguring my laptop that has firewire
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firewires have always been a mystery. They're like that format everyone knows is great but for some reason little to no computers contain a firewire port.