Mackie ProFX12 Professional Compact Mixer  

We are currently training on the equipment and it has not been used yet.

The quality of the equipment seems to be excellent, however we have not yet used it.

excellent cost for what we received.  Again we have not used the equipment, but secured the warranty on it, which was also a great value.

So far evcellent and very reasonable.  Once we have seen the equipment in use then we will follow up on it's rating.

I was a little bit leary of buying this mixer due to some reviews that I have read on here. Let me just say that after buying it, I couldn't be happier. My one complaint was when I opened the box I was looking for a manual but honestly there is no need for one. It is very user friendly. A mixer isn't hard to figure out but I was wanting to make sure I used the USB properly. So, I plugged the USB in and my editing software recognized it immediately. You can use this as a recording studio with no problem at all. If you know how to adjust your latenency settings on your computer then you should have absolutely no problem. As to people complaining about noise, maybe their cables are bad. I haven't had absolutely any problem with noise at all. I haven't used the phantom power yet so maybe that is where the noise comes into play, but with my Shure SM58 it is clear as a bell. I've paired this mixer up with the mackie Thump 12A speakers and I have to say this is all that I'll ever need. For live gigs this is awesome. You can hook up your computer and play your sound tracks through the USB and record the gig at the same time! Windows media player is all you need to play your sound tracks. The volume control is soooo easy to use and you barely have to turn it up at all. The first time I used it the volume on the computer was at 100% accidently and it just about blew my ears off and the setting on the mixer was only at 1. The effects are very easy to use and sound great. You don't get a lot of good for nothing effects on this, just some reverb, delay and chorus options and a couple of mixtures of the different effects. It is a very rugged build and I'm looking for this to last me for many many years to come. Basicly, BUY IT!

The effects sound not bad. It make my drum sound a little more "roomy". The graphic eq is very usefull when you use powered monitors and when you want to plug them directly in the mixer. It's a nice mixer for a band.

Overall, the mixer is great. The eq is nice. It's built like a tank. The preamps are also good. The HI-Z switch is very usefull mainly when you're using the mixer as an interface for your cumputer to use effect/amp from the production sofware that you have. But here come the problem. There's is an an annoying sound that come from digital converter. It made my recordings sound weird. It's like a constant feedback. Because of this, you can't use the usb input cause it attack ears of the people that listen to you. There's also a long latency when you want to record while listening to a playback. It made tracking impossible.

If the interface would work nice, this mixer will be the best thing at this price, but i guess you get what you paid for...

This mixer is worth the money for the start, the metal shell is sturdy, but the electronic components inside are built cheaply.     When we are buying a mixer, we should go for the sound quality first, the build comes secondary.     This mixer can take a heck of a lot of beating on the outside, but not the inside, try using some force to turn the faders up.     After a month, the faders most probably wouldn't work.

But if you are having a budget constrain, for the price range, this might be good.     But if you have some budget, and you are thinking of this to save money, I suggest you not to do it, go for an VLZ 1404, MG16 FX, Onyx 1202,     CFX16 Mark 2 if you got the money for those rather than this.

The Mackie mixer's preamp was great, the EQ, pan, effects were working well at first.     But, after a few months, the Pan does not have any drastic effects unless you turn it all the way down 180 degrees left or right, the Effects were as good as not having, it never works!     The EQ was worth off, the EQ never seem to work well and the gain button was useless, adding more or less gain made zero difference.

The shell of the Mackie worked very well, but the fader and EQ knobs etc. were made of cheap materials.     My Mackie fader for music channel spoilt after a few months of usage, the effects are terrible.     I would go for a Mackie CFX Mark 2, or a 1202 Onyx instead.     The fader are cheaply built and turning the fader to the max volume and to the lowest doesn't have any drastic effects, the gain doesn't even work at all.

This stuff is certainly value for money for the start, but trust me, it wouldn't hold up for long.     Especially, if you are doing home recording like me, I brought it out for a small gig, the audio ports were made of lousy conductors.     As a result the speakers keep buzzing until I changed it to a Yamaha mg32 FX mixer.