Hi there. My name is Korel Tunador.
I am a voice coach and a multi-instrumentalist.
I tour with one of my
favorite people and artists, Rob Thomas.
I've also spent many years
traveling with other acts such as
as Katy Perry, Goo Goo Dolls and more.
I was thinking about long ago
when I was in one of my local bands
before I ever moved to California.
We were doing tons of gigs and we
obviously had to carry a lot of our own equipment.
So we had our PA system
and we had this monstrously heavy road case.
It was probably like a probably just a 16 space rack,
but it had, you know, power amps and a lot of stuff in there.
And it had a Mackie 1604 mounted in there, and
we saw a lot of use with this stuff.
Luckily, our rehearsal space,
which was on the second floor
of this industrial building, had
a conveyor belt built into the building,
which was like a saving grace for us.
So we would pull up our van to the conveyor belt
at the end of the night, you know,
sometime one, two, three in the morning.
And we would load all our gear
on the conveyor belt and someone would
be at the top, you know,
waiting to take it all off as it would go up.
And at one point, we were loading our gear
and I heard this “LOOK OUT!”
and we looked up the ramp...
and our at least hundred pound rack
was tumbling down this conveyor belt.
And we, you know, got out of the way
and the thing crashed on the sidewalk.
The rack itself broke. We had to replace that.
But the Mackie 1604 inside still worked.
So that was a pretty seminal moment
that was seared itself into my brain
as I saw this slow motion
cube of tone about to clobber us all
and send us to the emergency room.
But luckily we avoided that
and luckily we did not have to buy another board.
So thanks guys for that.
Many, many years later, I'm here in my home studio.
I've got instruments, we've got amps,
we've got outboard gear.
And at the heart of my studio
that I see every day, is the control center.
And I see...a Mackie.
all these years later, at my desk,
still the center of everyone's world.
So thanks, guys.
You have been the fabric of
a lot of our musical development
and you're still with us today,
making our music happen every day.
We really, really appreciate it. Thanks, Mackie.