![]() ![]() ![]() The desk has an 8 in, 2 out integrated FireWire audio interface ruuning at 24-bit (44.1, 48, 88.2 and 96kHz) with each of the input channels sending to their corresponding outputs. Promising eh?Well yes, this EQ is a significant and welcome improvement over previous Mackie EQs, which frankly, I've never been that keen on. The Onyx preamps are present in the first three channels - I can vouch for these, being both quiet and of good quality, plus a 3 band Perkins EQ - which on the face of it sounds like some classic UK designed vintage EQ - its close, but not quite, the guy who designed this type of EQ is a well respected engineer Cal Perkins who's design was modeled on the classic British EQ sound. The iSeries comprises of the 820i, 1220i, 1620i and 1640i - we're looking at the 820i which the baby of the range with a channel count of eight: 2 mono, 3 stereo with 3 Onyx pres, and knobs instead of faders. The mixer itself is somewhere between the larger format Onyx series analog desks (which could be retrofitted with a FireWire card for audio) and the more familiar VLZ-3 smaller format desks. Mackie's latest range of analog mixers come with integrated FireWire audio but caused quite a stir when first announced - primarily because of the news that their drivers had bypassed the ProTools hardware copy proctection which up to then had only allowed signed, authorized M-Audio hardware to run the M-Powered version of Pro Tools.īut thats not the whole story by any means.
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