Mixers for hands-on musicans.
We designed the new DFX Series mixers for folks who don't have the luxury of a front-of-house sound technician. Working professionals who have to control their own mix while making music - and have to do their own set-up and tear-down.
What does that mean? It means that we've made the DFX•12 and DFX•6 extremely easy to use. For example, if you have a front-of-house sound person to control your effects levels, they can locate a small knob and tweak it.
But if you're on stage, it's a lot easier to grab a big, color-coded fader. Plus you can see the fader positions from halfway across the stage.
That's the philosophy of the DFX Series: make it easy to control a mixer when you're busy on stage. Channel faders are white. Effects and Monitor Sends are red, master levels faders are blue. The Tape/CD level fader is also white but separated from the channel faders. You get "mixing at a glance."
Every channel has both a Level Set and Overload LED so you can tell at a glance on a dark stage if one of your inputs is too hot.
And of course, both digital effects and a graphic equalizer are built in, so you don't have to mess with an extra rack of outboard gear.
Above all, superb sound quality.
What makes an inexpensive mixer sound cheap? Excessive noise and marginal dynamic headroom. Ask anyone who's upgraded to a Mackie mixer and they'll tell you the first noticable
difference is that they can load their new Mackie mixer with hot, high-volume inputs without
hearing a lot of distortion.That's due to our special negative gain mix amp architecture. This "higher headroom" is especially apparent with mics plugging into our microphone preamps. Our circuitry can handle screaming vocalists and close-miked drums without "breaking up."
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Crosstalk
(3)
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DFX•6 |
DFX•12 |
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Noise (1): Master fader @ Unity, Ch. gains down
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-90dBu |
-90dBu |
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Noise (1): Master fader @ Unity, Ch. gains @ Unity
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-86dBu |
-86dBu |
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Signal to Noise Ratio (ref +4) |
> 90dB |
> 90dB |
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Total Harmonic Distortion
(2)
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below 0.05% |
below 0.05% |
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Crosstalk
(3)
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Channel fader down, channels at Unity
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-85dB |
-85dB |
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Channel muted, other channels at Unity |
-85dB |
-85dB |
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Mic Pre Section
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Frequency Response(4) 20Hz to 60kHz
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-0.5/-1.5dB |
-0.5/-1.5dB |
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Maximum Levels
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Mic preamp input
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-22dBu |
-22dBu |
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All other inputs
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+20dBu |
+20dBu |
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Balanced main outputs
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+20dBu |
+20dBu |
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All other outputs
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+4dBu |
+4dBu |
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Impedances
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Mic preamp input
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3k, bal. |
3k, bal. |
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All other inputs (except inserts)
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>10k |
>10k |
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RCA tape outputs
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1.1k |
1.1k |
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All other outputs
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150 |
150 |
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Equalization
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2-band channel + 2-band channel + 5-band graphic |
2-band channel + 2-band channel + 5-band graphic |
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Low EQ
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80Hz |
80Hz |
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Hi EQ
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12kHz |
12kHz |
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Low-Cut Filter
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18dB/oct @ 75Hz |
18dB/oct @ 75Hz |
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Other
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Microphone Preamp E.I.N.
(5)
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-127dBm |
-127dBm |
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Power Requirements
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20 watts |
30 watts |
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Product weight & dimensions:
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Height (including knobs)
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4.1" (105mm) |
4.1" (105mm) |
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Width
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11.8" (300mm) |
16.1" (410mm) |
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Depth (w/o power cord inserted
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14.4" (365mm) |
14.4" (365mm) |
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Weight
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8 lbs (3.63 kg) |
10 lbs (4.53 kg) |
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(1)
20Hz to 20kHz bandwidth, line inputs to main L/R outputs, all channels assigned, panned L/R. (2) Any output, 1kHz @ +14dBu, 20Hz-20kHz, channel input. (3) 1kHz @ 0dBu, 20Hz to 20kHz bandwidth, channel In to Main outputs.
(4) Mic input to any output.
(5) 150-ohm terminated, max gain. |
