Radio Sales Café

I think I bought my first Mackie board over 20 years ago.  They are good sturdy boards fro production rooms and news booths alike.  Today I took delivery of a Mackie ProFX8 for my home studio.  It is a USB board which means once I record, I start and end digitally.  Recording and playback through a computer are done via USB post.  It has 32 bit FX presents, a full board 7 section EQ and individual three channel EQ on each pot. The best part?  $230.00 (yes the decimal point is in the right place).  I would definitely put this 8 channel board in  my production studios as well as any off site applications.

Mackie is the best way to go. They are usually a little more expensive, but worth every penny. That is all we use here.

I have owned 2 mackie boards in my 54 years in recording at home and being in radio and tv broadcasting.

For the money,they are great.Recently,a company new to audio consoles caught my attention.I needed a 16 channel stereo board with onboard phantom power for my internet radio station.The company is Pyle Audio out of New York and their Pyle PMX1609 caught my attention. 10 balanced mic inputs,built in phantom,4 subs,2 audio outputs for air and studio,onboard digital delay and reverb effects EQ on each input and master out Effects send and return and on and on and on.Each input has an on-off push button that lights when that input is live (A must when broadcasting) I bought the board off Amazon for $240.00. 1 year warrenty and 3 months added to that when you register on Pyle,s website. Pyle has been around since 1975 and they are well known for car audio and speakers. I had external USB so it didn't bother me that this board is not equipped with a USB feature.I have never liked a board like some of the Mackies because all the mic and line connections are ON TOP of the board which to me looks messy. Heres a link where you can check out this board.  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002MPQYBU/ref=sc_pgp__m_ADCZTTE1B...

As far as durability? well that remains to be seen but with all these features, the PMX1609 deserves a look. And you can't complain about the price. ALOT of mixer for the money!