Musicians, artists, engineers, and broadcast studios looking for a professional-quality compact mixing solution for live audio, home recording, and content creation should look no further than the Mackie Onyx12, a 12-channel mixer with 24-bit / 96 kHz 14x4 multitrack recording and high-gain Onyx preamps.
Features:
8 award-winning Onyx mic preamps
Analog circuitry delivers premium-quality sound with minimum noise
Analog/USB channel strips with flexible routing
Studio-grade effects with user customization options
3-band Perkins EQ with On/Off hard bypass switches
Switchable hi-Z inputs for guitars, bass, and other instruments
100Hz low-cut filter and 48V phantom power on all mic channels
If there's one thing Mackie engineers can do in their sleep, it's design a mixer that sounds great, is easy to use, and is packed with flexible features. Sounds pretty good right? So if you mix live sound, record in your home studio, or live stream, this is the heart of your audio.
PERKINS EQ
To create the Perkins EQ, Cal Perkins started with the Wien Bridge circuit topology - a very musical design inspired by the hallowed "British" desks of the 60s and 70s. This design essentially trades boost/cut capability for a wider, highly musical Q filter. After a mind-numbing amount of math, Cal was able to specify capacitor and resistor values that would give the EQ an extra 6dB of control (±15 dB) without excessively narrowing the "Q" or bandwidth of the filters. It's what we call a win win.
A LIGHT IN THE DARK
Onyx Series mixers feature bright, easy to read buttons that shine bright in the darkest places so you will always know whats going on with your mix. On top of that, the full-color display of Studio Command makes it easy to adjust effects and SD card recording/playback.