Mackie TT24

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I have been excited about the Mackie TT24 feature set since I first
saw it on Mackie's web site. Now it's in all of the magazines and
catalogs…. But I can't find anyone who has used it. I am recommending
a new console for a small church (300 seats) with a very progressive
style of music and I love digital mixing. I currently have a Yamaha
o1v and have played with the DM2000. I also know of one church that is
using the Tascam 24ch digital desk however they said that it "crashes"
once and a while. I know the Yamaha stuff works but it is really
pricy. In a live setting I can't ask 300 peaple to chill while the FOH
desk reboots…. So I thought the Mackie would be perfect….. If it
works. So If anyone has had there hands on it please advise.

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In article <9c20c99.0410241750.2ffbea2c@posting.google.com>,
randy@realitystop.com (Randall) wrote:

> I have been excited about the Mackie TT24 feature set since I first
> saw it on Mackie's web site. Now it's in all of the magazines and
> catalogs…. But I can't find anyone who has used it. I am recommending
> a new console for a small church (300 seats) with a very progressive
> style of music and I love digital mixing. I currently have a Yamaha
> o1v and have played with the DM2000. I also know of one church that is
> using the Tascam 24ch digital desk however they said that it "crashes"
> once and a while. I know the Yamaha stuff works but it is really
> pricy. In a live setting I can't ask 300 peaple to chill while the FOH
> desk reboots…. So I thought the Mackie would be perfect….. If it
> works. So If anyone has had there hands on it please advise.


Don't put an untested digital console into your job. Let somone else be
the guinea pig. While Mackie is not likely to let this new console fail,
it is still an unknown.

Yamaha digital consoles are not that expensive, and for the price of the
Mackie, you could purchase (2) Yamaha 01V96 mixers, and cascade them.
That would give you 24 channel's of on board mic pre, and the redundancy
of having two desks, should one fail. These mixers can accomodate
additional mic pre via lightpipe or AES. The 01V96 is reliable,
flexible, and well supported.

And for that matter, the Yamaha DM1000 is about the same price as the
Mackie TT24.

Forget the Mackie, at least until it has been on the market for 6
months.

And FWIW, I am looking forward to getting my hands on the Mackie TT24.
It does look like it could be a contender.

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Mike Rivers wrote:

> randy@realitystop.comedy writes:

> > I have been excited about the Mackie TT24 feature set since I first
> > saw it on Mackie's web site. Now it's in all of the magazines and
> > catalogs…. But I can't find anyone who has used it.

> Could be because they haven't shipped it yet. They put their effort
> into getting the studio board (Digital X Bus, formerly dxb) out first.
> There are a few of those around now, so I guess the TT24 will be
> coming around in the next few months.

I'll interject that I ordered a pair of Mackie SRM350's in _June_ of
this year. Weeks passed, followed by months, until gigs for which I'd
wanted them had already been done without them. A friend also had an
order in and since he was facing a situation where he could really use
them I had the vendor move his order ahead of mine. The speakers arrived
at his place recently (well past the point where he'd needed them, too)
and we both discovered _they are not up to snuff_, period. They have
some problems that might be remedied by a small fix, and they have
problems that are rooted in the design concept that may or may not ever
get fixed.

> I wouldn't recommend something brand new that I haven't seen. If you
> have an indeterminate amount of time before you have to choose a
> console, it's probably worth waiting for.

See above. In the first place you might have to wait long enough to have
the item be irrelevant, and/or find that when it arrives its useless. Be
damned careful. I admit I bit at the fruit before it was ripe. But by
the time it'd ripened it'd gone rotten.

--
ha

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In article <20041025130236.07524.00002652@mb-m11.aol.com> blindjoni@aol.com writes:

> Someone on the LAB has one.

LAB? Seems like I read that they had a couple on one of the shed tours this Fall,
maybe Lollapalooza? But they were either prototypes or pre-production units. If
there are any out in the field now, I'm sure it's by some sort of special arrangement.
You can't go into a store and buy one yet, and that's my test for availability.

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