Mackie Onyx 1640 with "custom-built" CP Cases flight case.
Overview
Overview
The Onyx 1640 is equipped with sixteen of the new premium precision-engineered studio-grade Onyx mic preamps. Mackie is renowned for the high-quality mic premaps used in their mixers, and the Onyx mic pre's are better than ever, with specification rivaling expensive stand-alone mic preamplifiers.
Channels 1 and 2 features high-impedance instrument/line-level inputs so you can connect an acoustic, electric, or bass guitar directly into the mixer, eliminating the need for an external direct box.
Each of the sixteen mono channels has individual phantom power switches, low-cut filters, pre-EQ channel inserts, and an all new four-band EQ design with sweepable mids and EQ bypass switch.
All sixteen channels have six Aux sends, Pan, Mute, Sub Assign, Solo, 60mm faders, and four signal level indicators.
A built-in Talkback mic with routing switches allows you to communicate through the Aux Sends 1-4, Aux Sends 5-6, Sub 1-4, or the Phones output.
All sixteen channels have balanced recording outputs on two DB-25 connectors for multitrack recording. An optional FireWire card provides all sixteen direct outputs and the L-R Main Mix on a FireWire interface for streaming digital audio to a laptop for multitrack recording in a live situation, or connecting to a DAW in a home studio.
Like the popular 1604-VLZ PRO, the Onyx 1640 has a "rotopod" connector section. This allows the connector panel to rotate so it faces up (all the connectors are on the same surface as the knobs and faders), to the rear (default mixer configuration), or toward the back (for rack mounting, using the included rack ears).
