Mackie Mix8

Great budget mixer

This mixer has a nice quality, very good sound and overall feel but it's not really a 8 channel mixer as the name might indicate. You only have 6 channels, the 7/8 is achieved via a mono out stereo return auxiliary, which includes dedicated post fader sends on all four strips, and a dedicated Auxiliary Master return.

nice little mixer

smooth, nice design, functional, compact

miss an off button, always branched stays on

small detail

recommend for small desktop configurations

nice sound

Previously, I owned a Behringer mixer but upgraded to the Mackie Mix8. Compared to the Behringer the outputs are super quiet, without any hiss or noise.

The only downside is when using it with headphones, setting the main and the headphone dial under 2, the stereo balance is not always correct and one side is over amplified.

Good Mixer

Not bad mixer

If you have budget going to 802VLZ4 should be better

Very useful for home jamming / players, ideal in fact

very solid build, good control of knobs. Sound quality looks very good although I never used it with high volume

Burned my earphones and my ears

Used the mixer for about 10 months, just home practice, nothing heavy duty. One night, on powering on the mixer, a loud buzz appeared in the right ear of my earphones that were inserted in the mixer’s dedicated earphone input. I pulled out the headphone jack a few times, twisted it around in the socket, which didn’t help: the right ear was still dead. I then plugged in a set of Apple earpods to double-check. Not only was the right ear dead, but I felt the earbuds heating up inside my ears to the point they actually hurt and burned my inner-ear skin. I pulled the earbuds out and touched the cable, which was hot. I pulled out the headphone jack, it was blistering hot.

The earphones I was using at the time to monitor the mix were permanently damaged, the right ear doesn’t work. I was using a pair of inexpensive Sennheisers while waiting to buy Sony MDR7506. I’m now glad I hadn’t come round to buying the Sonys, they would’ve been fried, too. The earpods I plugged into the mixer are rendered unusable: they now distort even at low volume levels.

My whole sound gear was running through that mixer, which is around EUR 4000 all counted. What happened to the headphones input could’ve happened to any other input on the mixer, which would’ve caused damage to some of the quite expensive gear, like Torpedo Live or some analogue synths. I’m not even sure some long-term damage was not caused by faulty contacts at some other inputs/outputs on the mixer, the consequences may still show.

Perfect home studio mixer

Just works, no issues at all.

Good mixer,

Good little mixer with plenty of headroom. Yes, it doesn?t have mute buttons or ON/OFF button or grounding, but that info you already get from the pictures. And if you?re okay with that, then it?s a really good mixer.

Only con. It died on me. The main operational amplification chip went dead. Soldered a new one in (3 euros) and works like a charm again. Ain?t a big problem for me, but might be for somebody.

Perfect mixer for small gig

Perfect mixer for small gig,

Sound is good . Mackie is good company

Price is perfect