Mackie mixers are ubiquitous in post-production and edit suites. You see them everywhere. Usually, it’s a 1202 or 1402. Well, we recently had a 1402 go scratchy on us, with one of the channels going out and the overall sound of the mixer just sounding “not right.”
We wanted our hands to stay on the home row. That is the job.
We are terminal people who got lazy with a mouse. KDE is where that laziness became a daily driver. Before that it was ed, then vi, then the years when a remote machine meant Gopher, a newsroom, telnet, and later SSH. Shortcuts. Hands barely leaving the row. Point and click is slow. We knew. We kept not fixing it.
We've used Mackie mixers in our edit suites pretty much exclusively for many years. The Mackies have the ideal routing flexibility for post, they sound neutral, and they have a nice punch to the sound. Paired with Genelecs, it's a hard combo to beat.
Recently, we had a 1402VLZ4 develop some distortion and scratchiness on a stereo channel that we use for playback. We thought it might finally be time to try one of Yamaha's MG series mixers.
With fewer and fewer ports on laptops these days, there's been renewed interest in docks that feature the latest ports and provide a one-cable connection to power and use all the accessories we need.
For creators, that makes a lot of sense.
The Plugable TBT-UDH2 Thunderbolt 5 Dock works particularly well with the MacBook Pro line, including M4 and M5 machines equipped with Thunderbolt 4 or Thunderbolt 5. And for creators who regularly move between a home edit suite and working on the road, a good dock provides tremendous convenience.
Earlier this year, Micron announced it was getting out of the consumer business. All its business will be focused on enterprise and AI in general. Flash memory is in short supply, and they’re getting paid while the getting is good. So they killed off their Crucial brand. We lost a supplier of pretty solid memory products.
