DFX12 12x2 Compact Live Sound Mixer with On-Board Effects

The DFX•12 actually includes three flavors of channel strips. Channels 1 through 4 accept microphones or mono line level sources, just like Channels 1 and 2 on its little brother. Channels 5/6 and 7/8 accept microphones or stereo line level sources. Channels 9/10 and 11/12 accept stereo line level sources

What makes an inexpensive mixer sound cheap? Excessive noise and marginal dynamic headroom. Ask anyone who's upgraded to a Mackie mixer and they'll tell you the first noticable
difference is that they can load their new Mackie mixer with hot, high-volume inputs without
hearing a lot of distortion.That's due to our special negative gain mix amp architecture. This "higher headroom" is especially apparent with mics plugging into our microphone preamps. Our circuitry can handle screaming vocalists and close-miked drums without "breaking up."

Low noise is the other difference between the DFX Series and any comparably-priced competition. Our mic preamps are quiet. The mixer's main circuitry is quiet. The digital effects and equalizer are quiet. In fact, we'll bet that you won't be able to tell if your DFX mixer is turned on unless you look at the LED indicators.

Long, logarithmic taper faders.
Instead of little stubby faders, the DFX•6 and DFX•12 have generous 60mm faders. And their log-taper design means that the sound doesn't drop to zero abruptly as you lower the volume - you have full level control over the complete length of fader travel.

Accurate 32-bit effects.
Unlike a lot of our competitors, we also make digital audio components for recording studios. Our Digital Engineering division applied some of the same technology to the DFX Series' effects that we use in our $10,000 Digital 8•Bus console