On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:16:10 GMT, Dale Farmer
wrote:



wrote:

I've heard from a handful of people that Mackie is worthless. My church
uses a midrange Mackie (it's a vlz-80, i think) board speakers, and i
think they work fine. So somebody, everybody, tell me, are they good or
bad?

-dano

Their small stuff is very good value for the money. For sound
reinforcement
work where all you are doing is incidental music and speeches in not very
good acoustic environments, they are plenty good enough. If you are a
recording studio, they suck large rocks through small holes. Depends on
your application. My biggest beef with them is that they use ribbon
connectors internally, and they have, um, issues with reliability, and
service
on them is rather expensive, labor-wise.

I'm sure the repair issues are there, however a band I work with has
used a Mackie 1604 mixer for years without any failures. As others
have said, for small live mixers they work extremely well.

Al