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Mackie Onyx 1220 12-Channel Mixerby Mackie
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Features
- Premium 12-channel small-format analog mixer with all-new circuitry - 4 mic/line, 4 stereo line
- New premium mic preamps for studio quality reproduction in a live environment with plenty of headroom
- New 3-band Perkins EQ with sweepable mids provides warmer, more musical sound
- 96K FireWire option for streaming 14 independent channels of audio to computer with zero latency input monitoring through mixer
- 2 channels of monitoring from computer via FireWire option card
Product Description
The Onyx 1220, 1620 and 1640 start with all-new premium analog circuitry, setting new standards for high-headroom, low-noise operation. Next up are Mackie?s new Onyx mic preamps, which meet or surpass expensive esoteric standalone mic preamps in terms of fidelity and transparency. Then there?s the completely new Perkins EQ circuitry, a ?neo classic? 3- and 4-band design which gives you the sweet musicality of British EQ with greater filter control and minimum phase shift (plus a true hardware EQ bypass). And all this analog innovation is rounded out by a new Aux section w/ individual Pre/Post control, plus a new Talkback section with built-in mic for easy studio communication. Built for the digital era. In addition to balanced direct outputs on every channel via dual DB-25 connectors (a first for any small-format analog mixer), you can outfit each Onyx mixer with an optional FireWire I/O card, which lets you stream either 12 or 16 independent channels of 24-bit/96k audio, plus a stereo mix, directly to your Mac or PC. You can also monitor a stereo mix via FireWire from your computer, making the Onyx Series mixers superb audio interfaces to your digital world... or any other world you plan to rule. Premium 12-channel small-format analog mixer with all-new circuitry 4 new ONYX mic preamps with sound comparable to boutique preamps New 3-band Perkins EQ with sweepable mids 96K FireWire option for streaming 14 independent channels of audio to computer with z...Reviews
Works GreatI recently bought a Mackie ONYX FireWire I/O Card and Mackie Onyx 1220 12-Channel Mixer. They replaced my DMAN 2044 interfaces I was using. (I had 3 cards for 12-in, but they did not sync up very well and had a high noise floor....) The mixer has nice transparent preamps. I am using a Behringer board for the other 8 preamps (not very portable at the moment). The firewire card works great - I can record all 12 inputs with minimal latency and no dropouts/static, my dynamic range has increased considerably. I am running it all on an underpowered computer (K6 900MHz) and it works great. Setup was simple - the autorun.exe (on the install cd) did not want to run, but you can install the drivers by going into the driver folder and running setup.exe. I have not had any problems with the software/drivers, I am even using a fairly cheap CompUSA firewire card.
I recommend this mixer/firewire combo for any project studio and with additional mic preamps it would be great for mobile recording.
