Mackie Mix12FX 12-Channel Compact Mixer With Effects

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AN OK / GOOD MIXER FOR THE MONEY, BUT....

I got the MACKIE - MIX 12FX to replace an old worn out 6 channel mixer with built in EQ. . . The Mackie is a better mixer in many ways, but it's far from perfect.! My old one was rack mountable, this one is NOT RACK MOUNTABLE.. It's way to small in width, being short at least 4 to 5 inches.. Also, it does NOT have a power switch on it, so you have to un-plug the power when your done, which makes it suck for studio use. Having said that, the seperation of left and right channel through the pan feature is very good, better than I had expected, in fact.! The sound is clear, and it makes a very good mixer for use on mix-down demo's or even for making "MIX C/D's" in place of the mix tapes of days gone by..! I did some D-J and Karaoke Jock work in the past, and this would be good for that kind of use for a low budget D-J.. Connect a good quality Amp, and a set of 12's or 15's, with a sub, and it would do a good job.. I have used this mixer at church for our Praise Band, I run the vocal mic's to this mixer, plug it in to our p/a as a sub mixer, feed the output to two channels on the p/a board, run the guitar amp mic's directly to the p/a inputs, and the six drum mic's go on seperate channels from a 6 port snake, which is reduced to two channel's. All in all, I get 4 vocal, 3 guitars, 6 drums, a EmCee's Mic, and 4 mic's from the house for live effect, run in to a 12 channel p/a system with one channel left open.. All of this gets two feed lines to a bridged 800 watt crown amp that is nearly as old as I am and it never gets hot.! That amp feeds two 15' and two 12's, and four stage monitors... It's got all the power we will ever need... ok, so back to the Mackie Mix 12FX.. I don't like that it only has four (4) mic inputs that our pre-amped and balanced, I don't like the combined "stereo" channels from 5 through 12, it could have done just as well with 12 inputs and 6 mic pre-amps the cost increase would have been very little for the value it would have added to the mixer. A side effect of that would have been a wider foot print, which would have made it a rack mountable mixer! As far as would I recommend it to a friend.? That would depend on how they were going to use it, and what they needed, or expected out of it... For what it is, it's a good mixer, but if you're building a home studio, spend a little more, and get a 16 or 24 track mixer, you'll be much better off.. But if you want to rock the local club / bar, have a three piece band, or karaoke set up, then this will work fine, and will not break the bank doing it...