Re: OT: Mackie SRM150 / tiny PA

[Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>]

Wow, this mixer sounds absolutely perfect, sizewise. Impressive to get a 
couple of power amps in something that light.

Thanks for checking it out and the note on the limited mixing 
capabilities. My mixing needs are simple, since my looping involves an 
all-in-one four-track I already have subloops taken care of and I'm just 
sending out a mono (sometimes stereo) signal to the mains. I could mix 
everything in the four-track of course, but for the times when I'm not 
looping (shh...) or when I want to have vocals or another instrument 
separate from the loops this will do me right.

appreciated,

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
www.chinapaintingmusic.com

>> I thought it was higher wattage, though, with two 150-watt
>> amps as opposed to the MSR's which are 100-watt? How heavy is the mixer,
>> would you say?
>>     
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> You're right.  For some reason I thought it was 150W total but it's
> 150x2 which I guess would explain the name "Stagepas 300".  Duh.
>
> When detached the mixer is about the size of a Harry Potter novel.
> Maybe an inch taller, about the same width, about 3 inches deep.  I
> don't have a scale handy but it's more than a pound, less than five.
> Lighter than any laptop I've owned.
>
> One word of caution, download the manual and make sure the mixer will
> do what you want.  In my case I can't use it as a looping mixer
> because I need to create a mix to send into the looper then send the
> looper out through the PA.  Since there is only one bus, you can't
> have the looper sending to the mixer without the looper's output being
> sent back to itself, creating a feedback loop.  What you need is
> something like what Mackie calls the "Mute/Alt" bus.  None of the
> mixer/speaker packages I found in this price range could do that.
>
> So, I do the interesting mixing with a MOTU Ultralite and just send
> a single stereo feed to the Stagepas mixer.
>
> Jeff
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