

MACKIE ONYX 820I DRIVER FOR MAC FULL
The real beauty of the 820i lies in the integration of firewire technology (that’s IEEE1394 for folks who use PC’s) which makes the unit not just a mixer but also a full featured soundcard as well. Whilst quite feature laden for a small mixer, none of this is particularly innovative or mind-blowing stuff. On top of this the master and monitor sections of the mixer have a talkback module (allowing instructions or wry mockery to be sent from the control room to the headphones of whoever’s recording via the headphone out or auxiliary 1/2), 12 segment LED metering and a number of different routing options for the 2 mix output. The first two mic channels also Hi-Z/Lo-Z buttons to switch between mic or instrument level inputs whilst the third channel has a LINE level button to switch between +4dB and -10dB signals. There are two auxiliary sends per channel as well as your usual features like gain, mute, solo, pan and pre/post fader options for the EQ stage. And it also has two stereo line channels with three band parametric (fixed mid at 2.5khz). It has one phantom powered mono mic/ stereo line in channel with four band parametric eq (fixed mids at 400Hz and 2.5kHz). It has 2 mono mic/line channels with phantom power and three band parametric equaliser with sweepable mids. I picked mine up about a year ago for AU$850 (I think) and it has been a very worthwhile investment.īy way of a synopsis, the 820i is essentially a 8 channel mixer/firewire soundcard. This time I’m looking at the Mackie Onyx 820i mixer.
