MACKIE REPRESENTATIVE: We’ve been shipping these for a while but it’s part of the Onyx family which keeps on growing. This is the 24-channel version. We also do a 32-channel version, and they’ve replaced our very successful previous models, the SR32 and 244. We now have the Onyx 244 and 324.

Really, there’s no comparison between the two. We have the Onyx preamps which is the highest quality preamp that we make, the Perkins EQ which is a wonderful musical sounding EQ designed by Cal Perkins, really fantastic stuff, and there’s a built-in bus compressor.

So, you have an input metering and a gain reduction metering, bypass, and with this knob, you rotate either the compressor’s off, it’s assigned to the main mix, it’s assigned to groups 1 and 2, assigned to groups 3 and 4, and again off. So again, you can play with the ratio and the threshold, fast attack, and just put a bus compressor on. So, more people asked us for, in a serious mixer, it would be better, instead of having multi-effects which tend to be a little bit cheap and cheesy sounding, why don’t you just put a nice bus compressor in there so I can have some dynamic control over background vocals, drumming, even the left right main outputs so that’s been integrated in here. And there’s also a matrix mixer built in.

So, a great product, really well built, very light, easily carried by one person, but we have been shipping this one for a while.