Mackie’s mixers have earned a reputation for offering excellent value for money. We check out their most affordable range to date.
Mackie have been dominant in the compact and cost-effective mixer market for 25 years now, and while the company’s small-budget mixers may not offer the very last word in technical excellence, they are always well-designed, with a good feature set, and very usable. Mackie say that their brand-new Mix series, launched at the end of 2014, is the most affordable mixer range the company have ever produced, and the Mix 12FX reviewed here is the largest in this new family. Its smaller siblings are the Mix 5 and Mix 8, with the Mix 5 featuring a single mic/line input plus two stereo line inputs (ie. five inputs in total), while the Mix 8 expands on that to offer two mic/line, two stereo line, and a stereo tape input. However, the Mix 12FX ups the ante considerably, with four mono mic/line and four stereo line inputs, a stereo tape input, and an internal digital effects engine.
The Mix 12FX has a very low profile, measuring 297 x 244 x 53 mm (WHD) and weighing in at just 1.7kg, the weight being largely due to its all-metal chassis. The only rear panel connector is a mini-DIN which accepts a dual 9V AC supply from a ‘line-lump’ transformer unit. Everything else is connected on the mixer top panel, where you can see it, with XLRs for the four microphone inputs, and TRS sockets for almost everything else. All of the line inputs can be used with balanced or unbalanced sources, of course, and similarly all of the outputs (apart from the stereo headphone socket and tape outputs) are wired as ‘impedance-balanced’ sources, which means they can be used to feed either balanced or unbalanced destinations without level changes. Phantom power is available for all four mic inputs via a global switch near the console meters.
Although only supplied with a very simple Quick Start Guide for the whole Mix series, rather than a model-specific full manual, I think the guide provides more than enough information to get most users up and running. However, a full manual is available as a download, with extra operational details, descriptions of the effects programs, block diagrams and a more complete set of specifications.
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