Mackie Onyx Pres?

[53Crëw]

What is the consensus on Mackie Onyx preamps? Are they considered pretty decent for mic'ing guitar cabs and vocals?

 

[006]

Generally considered solid pres. I have used them before, no complaints.

 

[pikachu69]

I had a Mackie Onyx 16 channel desk. It was ok. It was very stable as an interface, never let me down. I found with mackie that most of the gain in the pre is in the last 1/4 of the gain knob and they do have a tendancy to distort in this upper range. Not a transparent pre and not good for most ribbon mics either.
Having said that overall you could do alot worse and if used on louder sources should work out just fine.

 

[Trevoire520]

I think the Onyx pre's are pretty good. Certainly not going to stop you from making a great recording. Check out my Low End Preamp Shootout thread where I've compared it against Behringer, Focusrite and M Audio pre's.

 

[Melodeath]

No pre will stop you from making a good record.

 

[ChrisTanakaCanwell]

They're pretty nice, I like them a lot more than I like all of Mackie's other pres