Mackie's Onyx Family Grows With Two New Mid-Format Live Sound Consoles

Jan 26, 2006

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Mackie used this year's NAMM Convention to unveil the newest members of its evolving Onyx family the Onyx Premium 4-bus Mid-Format Live Sound Consoles. With the additions of the new Onyx 24.4 24-channel and Onyx 32.4 32-channel consoles, Mackie brings the innovative feature set and unequalled sound quality of their Onyx Series to the world of mid-format live mixers, effectively filling the gap between the Onyx Small-Format and 8-bus Onyx 80 Large-Format Live Sound Consoles.

The Onyx 4-bus Series mid-format consoles incorporate a host of new features like a full complement of Mackie's highly acclaimed, flagship Onyx preamps that combine greater fidelity, increased headroom and unequalled sonic performance with greater radio frequency rejection and wider dynamic range.

Additional Onyx 4-Bus features include a fully balanced signal chain for lower noise and wider frequency range, as well as Mackie's exclusive Cal Perkins-designed four-band EQ circuitry, renowned for its highly musical "British" sound and wider-range control.

Both Onyx 4-Bus consoles also feature a 6x2 matrix, 100mm Panasonic faders, and a fully assignable stereo compressor/limiter section built upon the high-quality THAT 4301 chip. This compressor/limiter features independent threshold, ratio and fast/slow attack controls, and can be assigned to the main output mix, Groups 1 and 2, or Groups 3 and 4.

Key Onyx 4-bus Mid-Format Live Sound Console Features:

• Premium Onyx Mic Preamps on all mono channels
• Four-Band Perkins EQ
• Six fully assignable Aux Sends with Pre/post switches, mute and AFL solo
• Smooth, long-throw 100mm Panasonic Faders
• Analog direct outs per channel
• Two Dedicated Stereo Inputs
• 4 segment channel metering
• Dedicated talkback section
• 6 x 2 matrix
• Built in stereo compressor/limiter

The new Mackie Onyx 4-bus Series will be available Q2 2006 and will have a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $1849.99 and $2599.99 for the Onyx 24.4 and Onyx 32.4, respectively.

For more information, visit their web site at www.mackie.com.