Members Goldenvoice Posted January 27, 2007 Members Share Posted January 27, 2007 My old Mackie CR 1604 has been quite the workhorse, but I'm going to put my rig on the "diet". I've been eyeballing a 1402, as 2 aux's is all I need, and I'm generally only going to be using 3 or 4 channels. I then read about some quality control issues with the newer Mackies. I've been in the business 20+ years, and plan on continuing gigging to the foreseeable future. I need a GREAT sounding small rack-mount board, built to high standards - truly professional. Are any of the available brands NOT Chinese crap anymore? A&H? Seems, too, that a board to small and simple, not too many companies want to put out with good build quality, and professional components. So, what's out there? Thanks, G:wave: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members W. M. Hellinger Posted January 27, 2007 Members Share Posted January 27, 2007 Are any of the available brands NOT Chinese crap anymore? APB-DynaSonics Chuck and company debuted their new APB rack mount FOH mixer at Namm... which is really nice, but I suspect is more board than you're looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members witesol Posted January 27, 2007 Members Share Posted January 27, 2007 I'd really check out the new Peavey gear. I really think it's good gear at a very reasonable price. Along with that Crest audio(I believe same company..Don?)That being said the A&H is probably the only other thing I'd reccomend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dboomer Posted January 27, 2007 Members Share Posted January 27, 2007 Are any of the available brands NOT Chinese crap anymore?A&H? I don't equate Chinese and crap. There are great products that are made in China. It has much more to do with design that with what the guy who built your gear ate for lunch. As far as I know ... all the lowerend A&h gear is made in China ... along with a good bit of our gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members W. M. Hellinger Posted January 27, 2007 Members Share Posted January 27, 2007 Here's a picture of the Peavey rackmount mixer Don showed me at the recent Namm 07 show. It looks to be a real decent piece, which I'm fixin to replace my Spirit Rackpack with: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alby Posted January 27, 2007 Members Share Posted January 27, 2007 Peavey 16FX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PrActical_AV Posted February 21, 2007 Members Share Posted February 21, 2007 Have they discountinued the PV line? I have been searching online and a lot of websites say that the PV10 w/ USB has been discountinued? Is there a new model to be released? I liked my Mackie 1402 VLZ micro, but it had way too much noise (hiss). Maybe I'll go back to the Mackie since they have the 1402 VL3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SoundMan Posted February 21, 2007 Members Share Posted February 21, 2007 PV10 USB discontinued? That's news to me. Sweetwater shows them in stock, and MF shows them out, but more on the way. SoundMan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alby Posted February 21, 2007 Members Share Posted February 21, 2007 The Mackie 1402 VLZ should not have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted February 21, 2007 Members Share Posted February 21, 2007 The Mackie 1402 VLZ should not have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators MarkGifford-1 Posted February 22, 2007 Moderators Share Posted February 22, 2007 Look for one of these, on E-Bay: http://www.ashly.com/product/mx-508-2.htm MG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PrActical_AV Posted February 22, 2007 Members Share Posted February 22, 2007 The Mackie 1402 VLZ should not have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hemismith Posted February 22, 2007 Members Share Posted February 22, 2007 I've been very happy with my Mackie 1402 and noise has not been an issue for my situations. Every system has some noise and as long as it's below the required threshhold for the situation it's not really relevant. Also, sometimes it's hard to do an accurate noise comparison without bench test equipment, although I assume all settings were at unity or identical. And I assume the output of the Mackie (mic/line switch) was set appropriately. At any rate, I've been considering selling my Mackie only to get a few more features, but it's been good to me and I especially love it's portability -- small and light and with a nice SKB case that fits it perfectly. And I hear of so many reliability issues, including with the mixwiz, that sticking with a known quanity is usually the best. Not to be overly paranoid, but reliability is the most important thing to me and I'm almost afraid to buy any new stuff. Competition often breeds more features but unfortunately sometimes lower quality, in particular at the low end of the market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dboomer Posted February 22, 2007 Members Share Posted February 22, 2007 Have they discountinued the PV line? I have been searching online and a lot of websites say that the PV10 w/ USB has been discountinued? Is there a new model to be released? No ... they are NOT discontinued and there is no new model in the near future. We are working on a new one but we are having trouble sourcing flux capacitors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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