Mackie
Mackie is an American professional audio products brand. Founded in Seattle in 1988 by Greg Mackie as a manufacturer of affordable and versatile compact pro audio mixers, Mackie is the primary product line of LOUD Technologies.
This article is about the professional audio equipment manufacturer. For other uses, see Mackie (disambiguation).Name change[edit]
In 2003, company management renamed Mackie Designs, Inc. as LOUD Technologies, Inc. (now known as LOUD Audio) to avoid confusion between the parent company and the Mackie brand.[11]
Acquisition[edit]
On December 4, 2023, Mackie was purchased by Rode Microphones LLC.
Known VLZ Series Technical Problems[edit]
In 2020, a post by user "LincolnG" on Gearspace.com (formerly Gearslutz.com) initiated an online conversation that revealed a design flaw in the Mackie's Onyx chip used in the VLZ Series mixers. Others contributing to the conversation shared their experiences anecdotally and it was subsequently tested, verified, and documented, by "LincolnG" that the VLZ Series mixers do in fact have a design flaw the effecting the stereo imagining. In the intervening years several others have verified the findings of "LincolnG".[12] [13]