"David Morley" wrote in message
In article znr1058963767k@trad, (Mike Rivers)
wrote:
The Mackie has adequate headroom if you understand gain staging.
Agreed.
Anything can run out of headroom if you're careless, and why use a
console that lets you get careless about something this important?
No console is invulnerable to abuse. The nature of abuse is that if you get
away with abusing it a little, you'll try to get away with more in the
future.
This may be true, but itīs still a valid point that the soundcraft has
more!
It's also a valid point that if you run out of headroom on a Mackie or other
halfways-decent console, you have only yourself to blame.
The Mackie console spec sheets I've looked at all claim 22 dB or more
headroom above 0 dBu. My personal experience with a SR32 is that it meets
spec, therefore I have no reason to believe that other Mackies don't meet
spec. If 22 dB isn't enough headroom to get the job done, what happens when
the same operator starts working with equipment like analog tape and DAWs,
that have only about half as much headroom?
BTW, I'm no great fan of Mackie consoles - I inherited the one I use. I also
fully agree that the equalization on Mackies is a lot less than many
situations really need, but that is why there are such things as insert
points, isn't it?