Check it out! Not on the shelves yet…although be sure to stop by your local periodicals section starting in Sept. Great, in-depth review of the entire Mackie Onyx-i Series, with a nice detail piece on the Onyx 1640i.

Reviewer, Mike Metlay, had the following awesome things to say about Onyx-i:

“With the Onyx-i mixers, Mackie takes a strong step forward, completely integrating the many great features of the Onyx products with a comprehensive and remarkably easy-to-use FireWire implementation.”

“This mixer [Onyx 1640i] pretty much nails the paradigm of the full featured analog front end for a computer recording system, giving you all the flexibility you could hope for and topping it off with amazing audio quality.”

Enough said. Click here to check out the full review.

Click here to learn more about Onyx-i Premium Recording Mixers.

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Mackie loves summer events… especially summer events involving beer and movies. Redhook’s Moonlight Cinema is just that, and is yet another of our longstanding Mackie traditions, dating back to the late ’90s. Since the Redhook Brewery is a favorite of many Mackoids, and since it’s right down the street from our home office, many of us would be attending the brewery’s outdoor movie night anyway…so why not show up with a mixer, a few speakers and a sound crew, too? Running sound is what keeps us all ticking, so getting out and doing it is a must for many of us.

This year, we are using our new HDA Arrayable Powered Loudspeaker System, ensuring that the crowd hears each and every articulate syllable, even as their vocal articulation declines over the course of the evening. Since the HDA is a scalable array, there are tons of possible configurations depending on the application. For these outdoor movie events, we used a highly portable system that used two HDA per side, each pole-mounted on top of an HD1801. A couple extra subs were used for maximum awe. It’s a great example of how HDA can work for various applications…a real plus for rental houses and sound companies.

This year’s film lineup is a mixed-bag, with something for everyone (see the events ticker on our homepage for upcoming shows):

• Step Brothers
• The Sandlot
• The Hangover
• Super Troopers
• Blow
• Fight Club

For full details visit Redhook’s Moonlight Cinema page. Some events are 21+ and there are a couple details about what you can/can’t bring in.

If you want to know more about Mackie’s HD Series loudspeakers, click here.

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Mackie has been a proud sponsor of The Capitol Hill Block Party since the early days. Each and every year, they up the ante, delivering world-class performances covering a scope of genres that is practically unheard of for any festival setting.

This year, Mackie focused it’s attention on The Vera Stage. Named for The Vera Project, a Seattle all-ages, volunteer music and arts venue, the Vera Stage hosts more experimental bands. The show was great and the attendance was record-breaking.

The PA was none other than Mackie’s all new HDA Arrayable Powered Loudspeaker System. We used three HDA per side, along with eight HD1801 Powered Subwoofers. This is certainly the biggest and best-sounding PA ever put up at the Vera Stage and the crowd loved it. The array was perfect for the long-throw application and the subwoofers pounded more chests than a group of parading silverback gorillas.

For the FOH and monitor boards, we used our Onyx 32.4, along with an SRM450v2 for checking in on the mixes.

All of the front stage monitors were our new HD1221s, which feature a steep 60-degree angle and specific monitor voicing mode, making them extremely high-output and great-sounding stage monitors. For the drum fill, we used an HD1531 sitting atop an HD1801.

The bands were great and the volunteers from Vera really produced some great mixes and made everything really easy for the artists. They are certainly doing something right at Vera, turning out some great engineers.

Another great Block Party under our belt. If you were there and have something to say about the system at The Vera Stage, email us and let us know. If not, we hope you can get to Seattle next for the mother-of-all block parties.

The Lineup:

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