Has anybody layed hands on the mackie DL1608 yet?

[Steve Garris]

Re: Has anybody layed hands on the mackie DL1608 yet?

It does all that and is much easier to use than many others. The only drawback of wireless mixing is that you can't set permissions for aux mixes if letting musicians control their own monitor mixes, like on Presonus. Anyone can screw other's mixes or even FOH mix if not looking which layer is selected. Otherwise works fine.

Sure you can!

I don't remember the proceedure, but I currently have a bass player set up so he can only control his in-ear aux mix, and he is locked out of any other mix. You can connect up to (10) iPads to this device.

 

[Arik Semagin]

Re: Has anybody layed hands on the mackie DL1608 yet?

It's coming in digitally, so it's actually not possible for it to overload. However, it is full scale, leaving you almost no fader travel. My workaround is to set the iPad channel's top and bottom EQ bands to shelf. Pull the top one all the way left and all the way down. Pull the bottom one all the way right and all the way down. You still have 2 bands left to EQ with, the tone and dynamics are unaltered, and the output is greatly reduced. Obviously, Mackie should put a gain control on that channel, but this at least makes it usable.

Thanks for the tip, I'll try. Actually one playback app sounds fairly decent in the mix, but when iPad channel is soloed it sounds like a crazy overload. Hopefully Mackie knows about it and will do something. Otherwise it's a great little mixer for small jobs.