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Starting from scratch...
At Mackie, our expertise designing great sounding, ultra-reliable compact mixers goes without saying. We practically built this company on
the shoulders of our hallmark blue and red knobs, legendary XDR preamps and VLZ circuitry. So why develop a whole new small-format analog
mixer line from scratch? Call us crazy, but we felt it was time. Introducing Onyx Series mixers.
 Delivering the premium goods.
It's one thing to modify a previous design. It's anothing thing to completely reinvent it. We chose the latter. 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 our 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. In short, we listened to everything our compact mixer customers were telling us, and made it so.
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 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 our Onyx Series mixers superb audio interfaces to your digital world... or any other world you plan to rule.
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 Two months to design a knob?
Yep. Onyx knobs feature a more comfortable contoured shape with tapered top, smoother grip and a high-profile beak so you can almost mix blind.
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 Team ONYX:: Larger Image
Mackie’s Onyx Development Team is comprised of veteran analog and digital engineers from the great Pacific Northwest (aka Woodinville, Wash). As a side note, this is the first time the elusive Viking Santa has been captured on film.
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The Simplicity of Analog. The Convenience of Digital.
The Onyx FireWire I/O Card 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.
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- User-installable 24-bit/96kHz FireWire I/O Card for Mackie's flagship Onyx Series analog mixers
- Allows streaming of 12 or 16 independent channels of audio, plus a stereo mix, directly from mixer to Mac or PC
- Monitors two channels of audio from computer via mixer's Control Room/Phones section
- Allows "daisy chaining" two mixers together, providing additional channels of audio into computer
- FireWire technology provides monitoring of audio software and plug-ins with no noticeable latency
- Turns any Onyx mixer into a great-sounding, very convenient audio interface to the digital world
- Works with any Windows XP ASIO/WDM host (Cubase, Sonar, Live, Tracktion, etc.) or any Mac OS X.3 Core Audio host (Logic, Digital
Performer, Cubase, Tracktion, etc.)
- Includes full version of Tracktion Audio and MIDI Production Software
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