Mackie Onyx Producer 2x2

I bought mackie for home practice with iphone. It works fine for me.

Great value with a few shortcomings

Pros:

+ Good feature-wise for the price

+ Sturdy case without any wobble in the knobs

+ USB Class-compliant

+ Small footprint, useful for a cramped workspace

+ An actually useful manual (the one available on Mackie's homepage that is, not the quickstart in the box).

Cons

- Gain knobs have non-linear behavior, which means up to 80-90% of the of the knob can be just silence and all of the usable range adjustment is compressed into the last few degrees of turning if you have a low sensitivity mic.

- Phantom power and line/instrument buttons don't remain in their "pressed" state between USB disconnects, which is a minor annoyance e.g. if you frequently connect/disconnect a laptop to an otherwise fixed setup.

Impressive quality for a cheap interface

Pros

It's a perfect interface for a basic home studio set up. All necessary controls at the front. Monitor, Mix, headphone jack and gain knobs for individual channell.

The hi-z function to record instrument does enhance the quality quite a bit when you plug a regular 1/4 jack instead of XLR. The phantom power activates both channells at once, that could be a problem only if you are combining a ribbon mic with a condenser....but for a regular set up such as guitar + 1 condenser mic it is not a problem whatsoever as phantom power will not feed the guitar

The midi in and midi is very good too, no latency, no lag. It works quite well. After my usb connection on my controller broke, I opted for this option which I find to be a lot better.

Cons

When I bought the mackie offered a 'free license for pro tools first'. But if you go on avid website, pro tools first is free anyway. Maybe when the interface was launched pro tools first wasn't free.... I found that was a bit deceiving. The freebies were free anyway

If you are looking to play guitar live, the latency is quite perceivable for live performance, so that wouldn't be a good investment. But for general recording of guitars, mic and midi control you can't go wrong. Recommended

Small, cheap, versatile, and Linux-compatible

I keep recommending this.

It's built tough, it has all the features a growing musician needs, and it's class-compliant so it Just Works on Linux. It's versatile, and its sound quality is great for the price.

Balanced outputs are a good feature at this price-level; just be aware that they're jack sockets, not XLR. This is a good design decision, because it works with unbalanced connections as well.

Качество в коробочке

a pretty good sound card that is not inferior in sound even to the focusrtie 2i2 series. cheaper performance and some lightweight functions do not interfere with work. There are small friezes on large projects, but they do not interfere with life. Recommended for initial recording.

Great sound card, perfect for home recording.

First of all, it's built like a tank. You can't damage it if you tried. Knobs are perfect, inputs and outputs are great. Great for home or on-the-go recordings, really portable. Hasn't failed me since I got it.

Pretty Good

The build quality is great, the knobs feel great. For its price, I have no complaints.

I highly recommend it

Excellent for home use

Easy to use and control

Perfect for small home setup

Had some issues at first getting Reason 11 to pick up the audio in, it appeared to auto install drivers in Windows when I first plugged it in, and mic and line in worked in other applications. Had to grab driver from Mackie (not hard to find), and now works perfectly.

Separate monitor and headphone volume, does exactly what I needed.

Very good price/quality

Nice pre amps, portable and fun!

Worth every penny!