Unofficial Mackie User Forums > DL1608/DL806/DL32R/ProDX Mixers
For all the naysayers,, I love this board
abzurd:
Well sure, your board works! If you had the problems I've had with mine, some of them quite embarrassing, your tune would change in a hurry. Mackie admitted to me the problems existed and they had no answers. I also sent them videos of the board malfunctioning. If you choose to call that nay-saying, I suppose that's your right, albeit an ignorant view, IMO. I prefer to call it what it is..... the truth, as confirmed by Mackie.
I loved the board for what it's supposed to be. It just wasn't living up to it. After having it on CL for 2 months, it finally sold. I didn't feel bad about the bugs because that's how they are selling them new, and aren't repairing them because it's a software issue somewhere that they've yet to identify. I think it has as much or more to do with the ipad than anything else. The person that I sold it to emailed me and said he loves it.
FWIW, I'm diggin' my Qu-16. I really missed multi-track recording, which I had with my Presonus previous to the Mackie. Recently A&H gave the green light for compatibility with recording directly to select thumb drives. That's going to be very cool.
dpdan:
abzurd, I purchased a QU24 and absolutely love it..
it is in a league of it's own!
Still use the DL1608 for lot's of small gigs like wedding receptions
Dan
sam.spoons:
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--- Quote from: sam.spoons on July 13, 2014, 10:14:08 AM ---Mine has performed flawlessly since I bought it, did another gig last night, Lisa Mills and Ian Jennings in Macclesfield, great gig, many complements about the sound.[
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Sam,
Lisa Mills is a good friend of mine from this side of the pond. I was surprised to see her name pop up in this forum. Glad to know everything went great with her show. She is a hell of a singer. Can't wait for her to return from the UK tour.
Keep on rockin' the DL.
GT
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It is, indeed, a small world. Yes she's great.
abzurd:
--- Quote from: dpdan on July 15, 2014, 05:42:30 AM ---abzurd, I purchased a QU24 and absolutely love it..
it is in a league of it's own!
Still use the DL1608 for lot's of small gigs like wedding receptions
Dan
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At the end of the day I wanted more features than the DL1608 could offer so buying the Qu-16 was the right decision. That said, I wasn't hurting for dough when I bought the Qu-16 and would have kept the DL1608 in a heartbeat had it been a viable board. Even if I could get it to connect eventually, I simply didn't want to show up to the gig 15 minutes earlier to troubleshoot the mixer every time I wanted to use it.
]I tried for months to remedy the issues. A 50% "first try"success connection percentage is not good. Russian roulette pink noise blasts, not good. Random connection drops, even when docked, not good. Even if it's something specific to my ipads, those are the ipads I have so they become the mixer's problem. We do around 30 "high profile" gigs per year (weddings, corporate, private) where technical issues simply aren't tolerated. We're under enough stress to be "perfect" as it is without purposely introducing problems. I love the idea of the board, but the mixer is a mission critical piece and it would have been irresponsible to have continued to use it.
stevegarris:
--- Quote from: yigba on July 12, 2014, 03:04:15 PM ---Played an outdoor gig last night and the DL1608 worked perfectly. I mix from stage as I am the lead singer and guitarist. Here's my setup.
1) Pan L and R for poor man's Aux Fed Subs. I use Bill Fitzmaurice OmniTop 12's and T39 subs and with their efficiency I can use smaller and lighter amps.
2) Aux 1 and 2 outs for monitors.
3) Aux 6 out to a little digital recorder. I set the levels off this to get a nice even recording.
This thing is so small and light and eliminates so much crap I had in the past. I also amazed my drummer when I walked out in front to do a preliminary mix from the audience section with my Iphone.
Never got more complements on the sound as last night. When we were soundchecking even I was amazed at the clarity of this mixer. I had an Allen & Heath MixWiz and IMHO this sounds better.
Anyway, with some of the negativity here just thought I'd share a positive experience.
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My sentiment exactly! I went from a MixWiz as well, and I also use L/R for aux fed sub's. Nothing poor man about that. Almost all newer powered boxes will sound great using this method (I've mixed and matched several different boxes). I also enjoy just letting an iPod play through 1 channel on the board.
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