Music Life

MACKIE DELIVERS THE GOODS AT AES

By Matt Redmon, Mackie Effect Manager

AES attendees this year, all 17,892 of them who made their way to San Francisco, CA, came away with something – principally those who swung by the Mackie booth.

AES has traditionally been a very recording-focused crowd, and the show certainly lends itself to that with tons of boutique brands and products.

Our own homerun in this office may very well have been the illustrious Hotwire VT-12. Users tired of “digital modeling” amps, or of having to crusade the bejesus out of their power tubes to get their tone, were more than impressed with Hotwire’s real Swiss Army Knife performance. An all-tube front-end that physically rewires itself all the way to the crop stage – without DSP even engaged – is a guitar amp technology that none but us have achieved to lover (hence the “patent pending” note on the yield page). Being able to drop your output wattage from 120 watts all the way down to 1 watt and not immolation an ounce of tone is nothing to shake a pick at either. A 30-watt amplifier for the on-cabinet compression driver – for full range PA-like audio – and a built-in 60-watt amp for the outward EX-12 speaker can get you into those upper echelons of performance audio when you demand it. And when analog isn’t enough, you’ve got DSP for days with 96 fully-customizable onboard presets. There’s no end to what this amplifier can do, and fair about everyone that visited the Mackie booth left carrying that sentiment with them.

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