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joman « Very good restaurant! »
Published on 10/18/11 at 05:23
Best value:
Excellent
Everything has been said in previous opinions!
Otherwise, refer to Mackie (in french): http://www.mackie.com/fr/products/cfx12mkii/index.html
UTILIZATION
I use it for background music groups in bar / concert (voice + drums + guitars + bass + keyboard), + characters evenings with a DJ.
I plugged into a HK Powo (2 satellites + subwoofer)
This is my third table, after a yamaha Beringher 8 tracks and 16 tracks.
At first, we must become familiar with how the mackie works: you have to assign each track to a subgroup (of 4), and once this is done, it will sound. But once you understand how it works, just roll!
The big advantages that have guided my choice to the console:
- Robustness (building serious)
- Effects: 32-bit stereo, very (very!) good, and there are two settings for each effect! (Rare in this price range)
- Preamp on each track
- Graphic equalizer on the final mix: It's great! not need to edit each track separately if we find that his general lack of serious eg.
- Possibility of adjusting the frequency of media on each slice (if you have any sound with acoustic instruments, ca can really get the frequencies important to emphasize, very hard if you have a simple setting of medium alone .
- Blows almost non-existent (unless you have to push the preamp into a corner, but I've never had to do it!)
- Transparency of its
SOUNDS
.
OVERALL OPINION
what it lacks:
- A firewire output for multitrack recording! But do not dream, you are already a lot for little money, and especially the quality!
For this feature, you must turn to higher-end models, although more expensive.
- LEDs for displaying the settings are switched very practical (eg when a track muted solo ...)
that's all that I miss for my use! A great value!
I hesitated a long time with Alesis MultiMix 16 or equivalent with a Yamaha, but almost in every respect, the mackie was over .... I would definitely do it again this choice, even to buy another table to the multitrack recording.
Compared with my previous Beringher table, I made a great qualitative leap forward! sound quality, effects, opportunities and quality settings, strength .... in short, better buy a smaller table quality to a monster with a cheaper brand that will make you regret your purchase soon!
Otherwise, refer to Mackie (in french): http://www.mackie.com/fr/products/cfx12mkii/index.html
UTILIZATION
I use it for background music groups in bar / concert (voice + drums + guitars + bass + keyboard), + characters evenings with a DJ.
I plugged into a HK Powo (2 satellites + subwoofer)
This is my third table, after a yamaha Beringher 8 tracks and 16 tracks.
At first, we must become familiar with how the mackie works: you have to assign each track to a subgroup (of 4), and once this is done, it will sound. But once you understand how it works, just roll!
The big advantages that have guided my choice to the console:
- Robustness (building serious)
- Effects: 32-bit stereo, very (very!) good, and there are two settings for each effect! (Rare in this price range)
- Preamp on each track
- Graphic equalizer on the final mix: It's great! not need to edit each track separately if we find that his general lack of serious eg.
- Possibility of adjusting the frequency of media on each slice (if you have any sound with acoustic instruments, ca can really get the frequencies important to emphasize, very hard if you have a simple setting of medium alone .
- Blows almost non-existent (unless you have to push the preamp into a corner, but I've never had to do it!)
- Transparency of its
SOUNDS
.
OVERALL OPINION
what it lacks:
- A firewire output for multitrack recording! But do not dream, you are already a lot for little money, and especially the quality!
For this feature, you must turn to higher-end models, although more expensive.
- LEDs for displaying the settings are switched very practical (eg when a track muted solo ...)
that's all that I miss for my use! A great value!
I hesitated a long time with Alesis MultiMix 16 or equivalent with a Yamaha, but almost in every respect, the mackie was over .... I would definitely do it again this choice, even to buy another table to the multitrack recording.
Compared with my previous Beringher table, I made a great qualitative leap forward! sound quality, effects, opportunities and quality settings, strength .... in short, better buy a smaller table quality to a monster with a cheaper brand that will make you regret your purchase soon!