Hey, it's Monte Pittman,
and I have been using Mackie products
for over two decades now.
I first started playing guitar for Madonna
23 years ago, and
that tour was called The Drowned World Tour,
and that's the first time I'd ever gone on tour.
And I got a Mackie mixer
to run multiple guitar sounds all into the mixer
and use that feed to send
as making one guitar sound.
And it's worked so well
that I still use the same mixer that I've had.
I haven't needed to get a new one.
It's very heavy duty. It's great on the road.
You don't have to worry about it breaking.
And there's something different about the sound.
I feel like just from running into the mixer,
it just adds something to your overall tone.
So I've used that to run different amps
all into, you know, say I’m using
two different amps, and I'm going to use
both of those channels to make one signal.
I have, for that reason,
also using it for recording, where
you do like, let's say you’re, for
acoustic guitars to have multiple mikes.
They again, they just go into the separate tracks
and give you one, one signal.
Also using it for playing live.
There have been some instances where I played
and I would do these one man shows
where it's just me playing with tracks.
Like, someone asked me to play a party
and I said, Well, I don't have a band with me.
And they said, Well, what if you just played
to the tracks on your album?
So I did that and everybody liked it. It was cool.
It was a lot of fun.
And so I would run my tracks
and all of the different guitar processing sounds,
you know, run a couple of different amps
and then run my microphone,
all into this, this mixer.
All to get this one one sound.
And, you know, everything is,
it's easy to use. It's easy to figure out
because when I first got a mixer, I didn't
really know how that that worked.
I would always leave that to,
you know, the sound man or something like that.
And it was easy to figure out.
It's been with me
over two decades now.
They make the best products and
I just I, don't know,
I'll always be using it for all these different reasons.
It's like a Swiss Army knife for sound.