MACKIE ONYX 1620 Mixer: Premium 16-Channel Analog Mixer with Perkins EQ & FireWire Options
The Mackie Onyx 1620 Mixer takes performance, preamps and routing options up another notch. This 16-channel small-format mixer comes packed with extended features, premium sound quality, advanced tonal shaping and full FireWire connectivity options. With eight Onyx mic preamps, which meet or surpass any stand-alone mic preamp on the market in terms of pure fidelity and head-room, you can mic or record an entire drum set simultaneously. The innovative Perkins EQ circuitry, a ?neo classic? 4-band design provides 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.
Features:- Premium 16-channel small-format analog mixer with fresh and innovative circuitry
- 8 Onyx mic preamps with sound comparable to boutique preamps
- 4-band Perkins EQ with dual sweepable midrange controls provides warmer, more musical sound
- 96K FireWire option for streaming 16 independent channels of audio to computer with zero latency input monitoring through mixer
- 2 channels of monitoring from computer via FireWire option card
- 4 aux sends w/pre/post switches
- 4 stereo line-level inputs
- Built-in talkback section for use with internal or external mic
- True hardware EQ bypass
- "Planet-Earth" ? power supply
- Individual 48v phantom power switches on all mic input
- Balanced direct outs for every channel via DB-25 connection
- Selectable instrument inputs on first two channels - no DI box needed
