Onyx 1620 - Reviews - Music Tech Magazine

This analogue console can be fitted with a digital implant, but will it appeal to digital diehards? Bob Dormon plugs and plays.

Price: £765.00
Manufacturer: Mackie
Website: http://www.mackie.com

While Mackie has diversified to produce amps, speakers, hardware controllers and digital desks, it has not ceased to innovate in the area where the company made its name: analogue consoles. The new Onyx range is certainly proof enough of this as it offers improved EQ and mic preamp circuitry, but doesn’t shy away from the demands of the digital domain. What makes the Onyx rather special is its FireWire interfacing option, enabling this analogue console to ferry multiple digital audio streams to a suitably equipped host computer or workstation. Hence, the ease of analogue can be married to the fidelity of a digital audio workstation with just one cable.

Score: 9

This review first appeared in Music Tech Magazine issue 19
Filed under Audio Interfaces, Hardware, Mackie, Mixer, Preamps

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