Mackie TT24.... yay or nay?

[Watershed]

All our gear is installed at a jazz festival for the weekend, and another job comes up that we don't want to lose.
So we sub-contract an outside company to bring in a rig, and I showed up just so we had a presence at the gig.

This system was running a TT24, and after the operator gave me a brief rundown on what it does, and then seeing it in action for the day.... I must say I was pretty impressed.
I mean, you need a full 80RU rack to house all the stuff that this thing can do.

So we're now entertaining the thought of getting one.

Anyone have any experience with them who can give me any pros and cons....... or maybe suggest a better option for around the same $$$ ?

[pounce]

i've used a number of digital consoles, but not this one so i cannot comment. we have some yamaha digital boards in the venue right now, and that's what i see the most.

[Watershed]

Actually, this dude had used Yamahas all the way from the (shudder) Promix.
He swapped to the Mackie only to get 24 channels..... and now he has 3 of them.

[jacvenza]

Like it pretty much. Have mostely worked with analog consoles before and have been pretty much skeptic working digital. But I have to commit that TT24 is pretty good designed, and in many ways similar to an analog console. It is easy to understand and start work with especially when you run it with an laptop.
And it contains pretty much "gold nuggets"....:)
Good information with videoclips on Mackies homepage: http://www.mackie.com/products/tt24/index.html

My conclusion is YAY :D

[studjo]

any bad experiences with the TT? I'm looking for a console for our school and that thing would be perfect featurewise but is it stable???

Jo

[paulsn]

i don't wanna be the nay-sayer but i've heard some really fucked up shit about this board. starting with annoying "latency issues" (whith means things happen way after you actually pressed the button) up to horrible scenarios of total software crashes during shows.
well i admit, that i havent used it myself, but i'm also not keen on doing so.
as far as i heard it's a little gamble wether you get a board that's actually working like it should or not. but still it sounds a little too risky, in my oppinion.

[Tim Halligan]

Apparently they are more stable nowadays due to some new software...


Anyhoo...


Is this only going to be for your company's use...or is rider acceptability going to be an issue?


If rider acceptability is an issue, you 'd be better off looking at Yomammas...LS9's and M7CL's.


Cheers,
Tim

[studjo]

in my case it's a school thing - nobody else is using the board - so I really don't care which company. All I know is that I really don't like the Yammy sound. Perhaps the Mackie is a "nicier" form of ugly :lol:

Jo

[Watershed]

Well we've had out TT for about 18 months now and it's been great.

Outside engineers have been fine with it. Some are doubtful at first but are generally happy after a quick instruction and they realise how simple it is to drive. I think i've actually converted a few.

Sound quality is very acceptable for the price.

Haven't noticed any latency issues and the system has been rock solid.

[clicktrack]

Some are doubtful at first



I would definitely see myself in that group.

I don't have anything to warrant doubt, but, up until this thread, I haven't heard much about using these desks live...good or bad.

This is all good information...makes me want to take one for a spin, just to know what I'm missing...

Cheers

[studjo]

all I can say: I had a quick rundown on a trade show and was very impressed with the ease of use - now if the thing is stable and sounds halfway decent it's the Yamaha-killer for me.

Jo

[paulsn]

good luck

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=qK22JZyjE6E&feature=related

keep us up to date!

[studjo]

ähem what's up with that video clip? any connection to the discussion?

Jo

[24bit441]

I've used the TT24 extensively in a theatre setting. My digital console teeth were cut on a yamy dm2000, so getting to know this board was very easy. It operates very much like its yamaha brethren. The sound quality is fine in my humble opinion.

One note I have (and it's been about 3 years since I've researched this) is that if you want to use the adat inputs to expand to 48 channels, you must buy an expansion card in order to have eq or compression on channels 25-48. This is from memory, so don't quote me on it...and perhaps this has changed in the last few years.