#Mackie onyx firewire driver Pc
#Mackie onyx firewire driver plus

Not a by the book purist I guess but real world conditions and 20 years of album experience. I find I can also get a bit more level to tape by high-passing things like the hats, rides, and the cymbal overheads which are usually highpassed later anyway. Why not add one more direct out source switch between those two points and make everbody happy.Īs to the wisdom of EQ on tracking input, I track most drums with EQ because I have a very clear idea of how I need it to sound later, and on vocals I sometimes like to engage a high pass filter. As the EQ and the HPF are both switched, the direct outs (firewire and analog) could have been tapped at this point, pre fader, and made most happy, except the people trying to do two things at once, i.e. Comparable in price to units from Presonus or Focusrite, but a bit better in the quality department.

#Mackie onyx firewire driver Pc

If I want to record to PC, it's a set of pretty good pres and a pretty good A/D converter, and a PC bus in one unit. Furthermore, if I want to bring audio back into the mixer in analog and perform post-processing, I can do so. If I want to mix a large show or print to 2-track, I can use all of the features of the Mackie. I think Mackie was smart in their signal path design. (Overcompress a track - oops, damage done - can't fix it.

#Mackie onyx firewire driver plus

Granted, having access to the Aux bus would be a plus too, but again, I'm not a big fan of adding stuff to the signal while I'm laying it down anyway. Why would I want to add EQ during the recording process when chances are, the EQ in the mixer is not as good as my linear phase EQs on my PC. If I'm piping audio to a PC as a primary recording system, I want the signal path as simple as possible - Pre->Converter->Disk. I don't see this as being that much of a problem. I only use my mixer as an input device, monitoring thru a central station and mixing inside of PT so I don't need it to work as a two way The only place Mackie even shows where the direct/firewire outs are tapped is on the block diagram, it's not mentioned ANYWHERE else in their site which dosen't make for happy buyers. So if you want any EQ on the way in you are S.O.L. Dave62 wrote: Hi Dave, yeah it doesn't make much sense to have the firewire outputs pre everything, but according to the block diagram (page31) for the Onyx, the firewire outs are post preamp but pre hpf,pre EQ with no option to switch, just like the analog direct outs.