Wow, i shot out the onyx with my chandler tg 2, and an api 512. I picked the onyx. punchier, and had a better sound for synths and drums machines. Super high fi and clean. But analog, the eqs are amazing. i mean as good as the neve on my neve clone for the work i do. This is amazing. and for the money, the best mixer out there, i like it more than the midas stuff too. Better than any software, better than saw, better than samplitude, cubase, logic or any of them. If you want stuff to sound good, get out of the box. digital summing is the pits. and with these onyx boards, wow, you can get a bigger sound that is musical, not crunchy and ear screeching like digital, that usually kills your high end and punch. Don’t listen to the idiots on gear sluts. Also, as to where the old vlz pro mixers has this aggressive mid range, the onyx is more hi fi and open and huge and less pinched sounding. They compliment each other amazingly well, and is why i own and use both now.

I got out of the digital workstation box and went back to the old mixers i used on fun with knives, because i miss the aggressive sound i used to get, i cannot get aggressive sounds out of a digital mixer. Hell and my allen and heath mix wizards failed me in this as well. But the good old mackie 1202 vlz pro is just the trick to get aggressive arpeggios and bass and lead lines. not to mention pissed off snappy drums. People nay say these suck, well they are doing stupid rock crap and pop music, for pissed off electro, nothing beats these old mackie boards. The down side is that they do lop off the low end a tad, but highs and mids are great and cut in a very aggressive way. I can not live without my vlx pro mackie mixers of the past. don’t believe the negative hype. these are great for electro. EQs suck, but can be good for strange sounds and ok for cutting frequencies.. limited though.

We love these things. Not the best, but way better than any plug in in the box. We used it a lot on our remixes post lust for blood. and man we got great results. I love compressing room verbs with it on vox. amazing. I like using it to make things a little louder in the mix. and it can add punch and cool over drive harmonics that adds a nice color to a stale digital sound. so i like it for that too. Very expensive though… but i think they are workhorse compressors. we have two of them. This is a must for tracking into a daw. The distortions on this unit adds just enough of a subtle color to make the DAW thin cold sounds go away. This can get really aggressive, or really passive.

Not a synth, but it is the most powerful fx unit on the market, reverbs blow away tc electronics and lexicon hands down. Not to mention the compressors are distressorish and kick ass for anything really. The space echo delays sound warm and analog, the chorus, phaser, flange are pretty cool as well, analog is still better but this is really good. I have 8 analog ins and 8 analog outs on mine. run just about everything through it and the DACS are the best i have ever heard on an fx processor. I can make things dark huge and ominous, or subtle, transparent, thin and vibrant. agressive and in your face, or distant and soft. versatile. i’m so glad i got this thing! easy to edit, setup, tons of memories to save to… very cool. now i am waiting till i get my jupiter 8, should arrive with in the next couple of weeks.