Mackie Dfx12 Live Powered Mixer
Product Info
What makes an inexpensive mixer sound cheap? Excessive noise and marginal dynamic headroom. Ask anyone who's upgraded to a Mackie mixer and they'll tell you the first noticable difference is that they can load their new Mackie mixer with hot, high-volume inputs without hearing a lot of distortion.That's due to our special negative gain mix amp architecture. This "higher headroom" is especially apparent with mics plugging into our microphone preamps. Our circuitry can handle screaming vocalists and close-miked drums without "breaking up."Low noise is the other difference between the DFX Series and any comparably-priced competition. Our mic preamps are quiet. The mixer's main circuitry is quiet. The digital effects and equalizer are quiet. In fact, we'll bet that you won't be able to tell if your DFX mixer is turned on unless you look at the LED indicators.
Long, logarithmic taper faders.Instead of little stubby faders, the DFX*6 and DFX*12 have generous 60mm faders. And their log-taper design means that the sound doesn't drop to zero abruptly as you lower the volume - you have full level control over the complete length of fader travel.
Accurate 32-bit effects.Unlike a lot of our competitors, we also make digital audio components for recording studios. Our Digital Engineering division applied some of the same technology to the DFX Series' effects that we use in our $10,000 Digital 8*Bus console.
Key features and specifications
- Two 60mm main mix faders (L,R)
- Balanced XLR stereo main outputs
- Balanced TRS stereo main outputs
- 12-segment stereo LED metering
- 5-band stereo graphic EQ with main mix/monitor switch and bypass switch
- EMAS 32-bit digital stereo effects with footswitch bypass, Level Set LED
- Aux 1/monitor send with level control
- Aux 2/effects send with level control
