Hey, everybody, it's BT.
And I'm here to tell you some really cool stories
about my experience with Mackie mixers.
And I think a lot of people
that sort of came up around
the time that I did will have similar stories.
So I'm probably the first to tell you this
of many people that should tell you this.
So I started making, I started making music
as a young teenager in the eighties,
and the first things that I ever got
to make records on were Mackie mixers.
And so during the early, very early nineties,
we were making records on
things like this right here,
which is a 1604
and still to this day
one of my favorite mixers ever.
I see that this rack is off...
So cool story about the 1604 is,
and it's funny too, because
there's this whole huge like, trance revival thing
and melodic techno, whatever you want to call it.
And something that you hear
on a lot of tracks, on the kick drum
is this very kind of cool
thuddy, low midrange and saturation.
This does it, like, inherently
as a part of what it is.
So where that sound comes from
is basically desk distortion on Mackie mixers
on the, the large format ones and on 1604s.
But I still use these to this day as line mixers.
I've got a bunch more over here
in this rack you'll be able to see...
and it's the sound
of slightly overdriving it.
And the usefulness of the EQ to this day
in 2023 is incredibly valuable.
So that's my little story
about desk distortion on Mackie mixers.