![]() A quick way to go over elements of previous takes, without having a player put down their guit or whatever and come into the control room to listen. A cool feature available on the headphone outs is the ability to switch between a headphone o/d mix and the studio's mix (what the engineer hears) at the push of a single button. 3 pairs of outputs for monitoring are available, in addition to 2 headphone outputs on the front of the unit. Layout is sensible, the Gain knobs are typically small and cheap feeling, though they don't feel like they'll snap off in my hands anytime soon. Interfaces now have a pretty common aesthetic to them. More on that in a moment.įirst impression of the Blackbird? It has that solid, Mackie "built like a tank" feel to it out of the box. Tried the Steinberg/Yamaha MR816 CSX for a couple of days. Previously, I used the Presonus Firestudio 2626. My 'modus operandi' is to spend time on mic placement and instrument tuning, and performance - so I spend less time trying to fix sounds in or out of the box. I do tracks for various clients, along with my own percussive - midi creations. My rig - Macbook 2.0GHz, OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.4 - 4GB RAM - WD Scorpio Black 7200rpm HD - Reaper, Ableton Live 8 and Logic 8, etc., etc, blah, blah. Haven't spent a whole lot of time with it yet, but will share a few initial impressions. Just got my Blackbird a couple of days ago.
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