Mackie ProFX10v3 10-Channel Professional Analog Mixer with USB, Onyx Mic Preamps and GigFX Effects Engine

I hate writing reviews, but I felt that the Mackie was worth it. In the past, I owned at 1202 vlz pro- not ever turning it off for about 25 years. Yeah, I’m stupid that way. But the point is – the 1202 still works other than having a little bit of issues with one channel but that’s hardware that holds up! The Mackie profx16v3 has surprised me in many ways. I use the aux sends and subgroups way more than I thought I ever would. I have outboard compressors and EQ’s so I’m a bit of a power user but not a pro. I have been making music for over 25 years in that entire time I have only owned mackie mixers, but I’ve also owned universal audio’s stuff, motu, and Behringer audio interfaces. The reason that I bring up other gears that I kind of understand what sounds great, and sort of deduced that it kind of doesn’t matter what you have as long as it has a good noise floor as long as you can use other gear to beef it up. The mackies do with the new Onyx preamps. I looked it up & I think it was like 65dB headroom, it can cost thousands on other better mixers and be only 75db sometimes…so in that regard, another win. The crazy part is, I really like the onboard effects. There’s like no control over any part of them and that’s why I like them. They come really quick in a mix when you just need a little reverb or just a chorus or a stupid echo- I use it a lot! Good job on that too. The reason that I picked the PROFX16V3 was because of the eight channels of inserts. I love inserts on mixers because of the way that you can compress or EQ or put effects on single channels, but still remain in the mix. What I’m messing with now a little bit is that you can use an insert cable that has TS on one side and one TRS on the other side and route every Mackie insert channel to your multi channel audio interface and effectively make it into a tascam 12. … it can do that! I would love to have something like the SSL BIG SIX, but since I can’t afford it, I use this and with some silly pirated plugins on top of this, I sound great enough with the mackie. It’s not audiophile quality but it’s great. The onyx preamps on channels 1-8 can be saturated nicely! When I run out of them I feel sad when I just use the other channels haha. I would buy this again! It’s built really solid and it’s a comfortable mixer for my small studio.

Good compromise of features versus portability!

Really good so far, I use it to connect my ddj-sb3 to M-Audio speakers and sounds great

I got the ProFX6v3. This is a decent compact size mixer/interface that suits my needs. All the analog inputs/outputs works expected. FX is also pretty good. My biggest headache is its USB IO when using with Mac. It took me the entire weekend to figure out how to get the computer playback music to go to the main mix. Before that, I was seriously considering returning it thinking it is defective. According to the user guide, it should be plug-n-play with Mac. Well, it is true that you don't need to download and install any driver. But what the user guide failed to mention is that, it is not truly 2x4 (2 track out from mixer, 4 tracks into the mixer at the same time). For audio from computer to the mixer via usb, you have to choose usb channel 1-2 or usb channel 3-4 in Mac's rarely used Midi app. If you only set up ProFX as the output in the Sound setting without changing the setting in the Midi app, you will always get the default setting, which is to usb channel 1-2 on the mixer. That means if you push down the usb 1-2 to Phone button on the mixer, you can hear your computer playback in the headphone. But if you push down the usb 3-4 button, there will be no audio to the main mix. To have the computer playback go to the main mix, you have to use the Midi app, in addition to the Sound setting, and configure its 2.0 speakers to use channel 3 and 4, and then push the usb 3-4 button down. I wish the manufactory did a better job on their user guide.

I’m a professional drummer and use it for click tracks, backing track feeds and personal monitors. It works great. I’ll add a picture of it at a gig later.

A great Interface for any in the world of voice over. This is my second one!

System is great for my podcast.

Good quality