Mackie SR24•4 Mixing Console
Mackie designed the SR24•4 to be the best value 4-bus live sound mixers ever offered; yet they also knew that almost anyone who performs music live wants to record it, too. So they made sure that the SR Series mixers could do both well. The SR24•4 features major amounts of headroom, thanks to Mackie’s VLZ circuitry. They also have main and submix amplifiers that use Mackie’s distinctive negative gain mix architecture, which provides double the mix headroom of conventional designs. Ultra- quiet high-headroom mic preamps on 20 mono channels mean great- sounding vocals or instruments. Low cut filter (on mono channels) centered at 75Hz allows you to cut out mic thumps and wind noise that can enter your mix and rob you of amplifier power. Four buses make live mixing a breeze — send all of your vocal mics to one bus, maybe your drum tracks to another — by letting you control the overall level of those channels with one fader. The SR Series mixers have six aux sends per channel, with the flexibility to handle multiple chores at once. Two of the aux sends are pre-fader, so you can use them for monitor sends during a live session. Two other aux sends are post-fader, which you would want for effects during studio tracking and mixdown. But get this: the final two aux sends are switchable to pre- or post- fader! So you can have 4 pre- fader aux sends, or 4 post- fader aux sends, whenever you need them. Equalization on the SR24•4 is quite musical. Besides the fact that our Hi and Lo shelving EQ are centered at useful frequencies — 12kHz and 80Hz, respectively — the SR24•4 has sweepable midrange EQ (on mono channels).
