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Mackie Onyx 1620 (No Longer Available)Item ID: Onyx162016 x 2 Analog Mixer w/ 8 Onyx preamps, 4-band Perkins EQ, and Support for FireWire Option 
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We are working with our friends at From Our Research Team:Premium Onyx Preamps Plus FireWire Digital Option!At Mackie, their expertise designing great sounding, ultra-reliable compact mixers goes without saying. They practically built their company on the shoulders of hallmark blue and red knobs, legendary XDR preamps, and VLZ circuitry. So why develop the Onyx 1620, part of a whole new small-format analog mixer line from scratch? To add more features, even better EQ, and FireWire!Mackie Onyx 1620 Mixer at a Glance:
High-performance analog mixers for the digital era The goal for the Onyx 1620 was no short order: to create a small-format analog mixer with more useful features, better sound quality, advanced tonal shaping, and full FireWire connectivity options. To accomplish all this, Mackie assembled a hybrid engineering team led by famed analog engineer Cal Perkins and digital guru Chris Jubien. They also couldn't keep Greg Mackie from adding things as they went along (like 4-segment LED metering on every channel). Two years and almost 9000 cups of coffee later, they've released the flagship Onyx Series. Delivering the premium goods The Onyx 1620 starts with eight of Mackie's Onyx mic preamps, which meet or surpass just about any standalone mic preamp on the market in terms of pure fidelity and headroom (and yes, there are specs to prove it). Next up is the completely new Perkins EQ circuitry, a "neo-classic" 4-band design that gives you the sweet musicality of British EQ with greater filter control and minimum phase shift (plus a true hardware EQ bypass). This analog brilliance is paired with a full-featured discrete Auxiliary section, a completely redesigned mix bus and summing amp section, and a built-in Talkback section with onboard mic. The simplicity of analog, the convenience of digital The Onyx [url=http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/OnyxFWCard]FireWire I/O Card[/url] is a true first. This 24-bit/96k card bridges the gap between Mackie's flagship Onyx analog mixers and a Mac or PC, giving musicians and engineers a great-sounding and very efficient way to go from analog to digital - without the need for separate converter boxes or interfaces. Mackie Onyx 1620 Mixer Features:
The Mackie Onyx 1620 is a great leap forward in quality and sound! Onyx 1620 Image Gallery
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I've had this for a week and I've been impressed on every level. I got the firewire interface and it was amazingly easy to setup and it worked perfectly with my DAW (Sonar on WinXP) with no hassles or... read more [+] problems. The feature set is totally optimized. I use it to run the PA for rehearsal as well as recording. I use pretty much every feature and there's really nothing I need that it can't do. Oh yeah, did I mention it sounds great and is built like a tank. I wish is was cheaper but it's hard to complain about the price when the product is so good. I've read nothing but complaints about some of the lower cost competition. If you want a great mixer and computer interface, this is hard to beat. close [-]
June 14, 2006 Music Background: Works Wonders for Me
by Chris Wesley from Altadena, CA USA
I use this as a mini-desk/hub going into my Digi-002 Rack for project studio recording. I chose this unit for very specific reasons, some of those being:February 2, 2009 Music Background: Producer, Recording Engineer -As my hub, when mixing, I have instant... read more [+] access to check my mixes on three sets of monitors using "Main Out", "Alt 3-4 Out", and "Tape Out" for my mono mix listening. -I have a separate "Live Room" and the 1620 comes with the Talkback feature. I've had artists in the booth hear bandmates clearly using the talkback when the bandmates were speaking at a normal volume seven feet from the included Talkback mic found on the 1620 itself. The Talkback button is also springloaded so I push to talk, lift my finger off to mute it. -I use the 8 mono channels coming into the 1620, then use the D-Sub connection out directly into the 8 inputs on the Digi-002. Note: I use dedicated Pre-Amps that feed into the 1620 on specific mono channels to get the sounds I'm looking for. I have used the DI on the 1620 before and liked the sound better than the DI on my Great River ME-1NV, but that was just the DI for a specific sound. By themselves, the Pre-Amps on this were merely passable to me. If you route your signal anything like how I do however, know how to gain-stage if you want any success at it. That said, I have a -10 dB pad between the ME-1NV and the 1620 because of how hot the ME-1NV spits out the signal. -I use the four stereo channels of the 1620 as inserts from my computers (only one of those is used for music production though). I bypass the EQ on these channels. -Bottomline is I get great sound without all the "it sounds too digital" feedback and it works with what I need it to do in my studio. I spent weeks drawing out diagrams of signal chains and functions I needed my gear to perform and doing a great deal of homework before buying this piece of gear. To get the most out of it, know what you need first, then, if the 1620 fits that bill, you might enjoy it as much as I have. close [-] Good Home Studio Mixer
by Skylat from Boston, MA
This is not something that would be very easy for you to carry around... But the preamp (i tell ya, it's very warm!) and the ease of use (just a normal mixer with a couple more buttons) definitely mak... read more [+]e it one of the best mixers out there... I bought it mainly because it can be used as an audio interface and I can use it for Live Gig... Since I use Keyboard and Midi Module all the time... the 4 sets of stereo come in very handy for me... If you had the money and mainly focus on live gig... go for 1640... if not, 1620 will be good enough for you. close [-]
July 25, 2006 Music Background: Keyboardist, Composer Sweetwater Advice
Dan VanAmerongenI just bought a 1620 mixer for my band and it sounds great, both live and in my studio! Mackie revolutionized the industry by bringing an affordable, good sounding mixer into the market many years ago. They have raised the bar again with the new 1620. Meh... It's okay but nothing to write home about
by Acorn from Colorado
I had this with the Firewire card, and the best I can say about this is it's easy to use - therefore a good learning tool. But once you know what you want out of a recording setup you'll sell this th... read more [+]ing.December 9, 2008 Music Background: Producer, Musician, MC, Live & Studio Engineer The Good: -Preamps are decent, better sound than low end stuff -Lots of simultaneous inputs for the price. -Nice LED's for checking your levels. -Able to achieve fairly low latency. -Able to record you band live w/multitracks if you use a small enough PA that this would be your main board. The Bad: -Preamps are decent as I said, but nowhere near pro level sound. They definitely color the sound and the high end on them is not smooth. They do not distort well. They have all their gain in the last quarter-turn or less. -Leakage! When I play back something all the channel LEDs show small amounts of signal. The main output also leaks VERY audibly from the Alt3-4 outputs. That just sucks. For example, if you want to record a keyboard DI, and then send it's signal through the Alt3-4 to put it through an amp as well, you simply cannot if you want to hear playback at the same time. The leakage is far too loud. -Signal flow. For some reason they pull your signal to the interface before the EQ on the channel strip. They advertise this great "Perkins" EQ but you can't record with it! You can fix this if you're willing to open up the thing, cut circuit traces, and re-solder, but COME ON people. -Outputs. 18 ins but only stereo outputs from the computer? If you wanna mix "out of the box" or use outboard gear you are severely limited! Beware! -No lightpipe. This stops you from using high end preamps if you want to avoid the onyx garbage. -Not well built. It feels cheap. Some knobs and faders were bent right from the factory. -No Vista support. I must qualify this as I used it with Vista, and it works, but you'll have all sorts of problems with system stability. Mackie is working on the vista drivers right now but they'll be a while. Vista, however has been out for what, almost three years and this isn't together yet? Anyway, as I said this is a decent tool to get started with recording but it falls far short for obvious reasons. I have since switched over to a Protools M-powered / M-Audio 2626 interface and couldn't be happier. 700 bucks total including the software whereas as the 1620 setup will run at least 1200 including firewire. Plus software. Think about what you really want to do. This is not a pro-level piece of gear. close [-] 
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