5/17/2023 0 Comments Mackie onyx blackjack 2x2The not so good: A few nitpicky things I would have liked to have seen would be a 4 or 6 segment LED for input metering rather than just the single light on each channel (lights green when signal is present, and turns red when overdriven).useful enough, but a larger meter would have been nice. (I have no personal experience there, as I use SONAR, but most reviews I have seen of Tracktion paints it as an easy to use and straight ahead platform.) Also should be noted that it comes packaged with Mackie's Tracktion 3 recording software, which has received positive reviews. Perfect for use in a portable rig, and the Onyx pres continue to be the hands-down best in class for their price range. Also has an input monitor for zero-latency monitoring of your sources while recording (I found this to be a little on the quiet side, so you have to crank it right over to get a usable volume, but otherwise worked great). USB bus powered, so no need for an external power source, intelligently laid out, with phantom power and Hi-Z available on both channels. The good: Mackie built a great little 2x2 box that's compact, built like a Brinks truck, and featuring their killer-for-the-dollars Onyx preamps. This is sort of a 2-sided review.because in many ways this is a great product, but in one very large way it isn't.
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