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Mackie 1202-VLZ3
Despite it's cute appearance, the Mackie 1202-VLZ3 is a serious professional compact mixer, with features that belie its small footprint. The ideal compact mixer for home and project studios, the 1202-VLZ3 is equally at home on the road, on the stage, or in the recording studio. Like with many other products at Mackie, they rarely leave "well enough" alone. After all, the VLZ Pros are among the best-selling mixers of all time, so it would be tough to improve on what many devoted owners already consider perfection.
While it keeps all the features and functionality of its predecessor, the Mackie 1202-VLZ3 offers even greater headroom versus the original. In an effort to improve an already well-designed mixer, Mackie redesigned the Mix Bus, tweaked the EQs, and created a mixer with a highly intuitive, musical feel.
VASTLY SUPERIOR XDR2 MIC PREAMPS
Mackie's new XDR2 (Extended Dynamic Range) second-generation mic preamps are better than ever. These new preamps offer incredibly low noise, with individual mic pre THD below 0.0007%, and overall mixer THD less than 0.0025%. With 60dB of available gain per channel, the 1202-VLZ3 can handle inputs ranging from a whisper to a scream, and can even handle hot line-level signals up to +22db, without any added coloration. Find a preamp this good on any other mixer in this price range isn't easy.
EQUALIZATION
Mackie invested tremendous resources optimizing the center frequencies of their 3-band Active EQs. By selecting 80Hz, 2.5kHz and 12kHz, for the Lows, Mids and Highs, respectively, you'll find an even more musical EQ than on previous VLZs. With up to 15dB boost/cut capability per band, VLZ3's Active EQ provides more tone-sculpting latitude than any other mixer in its class.
PROFESSIONAL FEATURES
The Mackie 1202-VLZ3 is packed with premium features on every mic channel: 75Hz Low-Cut filters, two Aux Sends, inserts, phantom power, constant-loudness Pan controls and Pre Fader Solo. And since you can never have too many output options, Mackie provided a Control Room/Phones source matrix, Master Aux section with EFX to Monitor, tape outputs, a high-volume headphone amplifier and balanced XLR and TRS outputs.
NEED EVEN MORE FLEXIBILITY?
Greg Mackie's mind was working overtime when he originally came up with this: instead of sending muted signals into the vacuum of space, why not do something useful with them? So, when you press the mute button on the 1202-VLZ3, the signal is indeed muted, but it also appears at the ALT 3-4 output jacks and ALT 3-4 stereo bus. This is an ideal way to create additional Aux Sends and mixes for cry rooms, green rooms, or assistive listening, etc. And with a press of a button, the ALT 3-4 mix can be assigned to the Main output, which means ALT 3-4 can act very much like a mixer within a mixer.
BUILT MACKIE TOUGH
All VLZ3 mixers are built tough-as-a-tank. Mackie's legendary solid-steel chassis can take the kind of abuse that would turn many competitors' flimsy boxes into twisted chunks of debris. Instead of cheap, unsealed potentiometers, Mackie uses co-molded pots, which offer substantial strain and impact relief. By design, the control knobs "ride" just above the surface of the chassis, so if something falls onto the mixer, the impact is transferred from the knobs to the chassis, not to the potentiometers or circuit board. They also use thick, horizontally mounted fiberglass PC boards to eliminate the potential for damage and brace them with a shock-absorbing support structure. They've survived earthquakes, hurricanes and typhoons, so Mackie mixers can certainly handle whatever you throw at them.
VERSATILITY
You'll find Mackie mixers everywhere you go, from video post-production facilities, to major artist tour buses, to duty as field mixers for news departments of all the major networks. Drummers and keyboardists use them to send submixes to front of house and monitor consoles. VLZ3 compact mixers are the ideal choice for any situation requiring superior audio mixing, especially where space and/or budget constraints are an issue.
Leave it to the innovative minds at Mackie to produce the 1202-VLZ3, an even more perfect version of the best-sounding mixer in its class. |
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Features
- Ultra-low noise mixer with the highest headroom in its class
- 4 precision-engineered XDR premium studio-grade mic preamps
- Advanced DC pulse transformer RF rejection
- 12 line inputs (4 mono, 4 stereo pairs)
- Separate RCA-type tape/CD inputs and tape outputs (unbalanced)
- 2 Aux Sends with 15dB of extra gain above Unity
- Constant-loudness Pan pots
- 2 stereo Aux Returns w/EFX to Monitor
- Aux 1 Master w/ Monitor/Post assign
- 3-band Active EQ (80Hz, 2.5kHz, 12kHz)
- 18dB/octave 75Hz Low-Cut filter eliminates stage rumble and wind noise
- Extra ALT 3-4 stereo bus for submixes, separate recording, monitor and 'mix minus' feeds
- Control Room/Phones multi-input source matrix
- Phantom power for premium condenser mics
- Rugged steel chassis, sealed rotary controls
- Built-in power supply
Mic Preamp
Equivalent Input Noise (20Hz-20kHz)
150 ohm
-129.5 dBu
50 ohm
-131.0 dBu
0 ohm
-134.5 dBu
Frequency Response
-1dB
5Hz to 100kHz:
-3dB
3Hz to 192kHz:
IM Distortion (4 to 1 ratio SMPTE)
35dB gain
0.0008%
Harmonic Distortion (20Hz-20kHz)
35dB gain
0.0007%
Gain
Max +60dB
Min 0dB or Unity
Max Input +22dB
Input Impedance 1.3k Ohm
Common Mode Rejection > 90dB
Common Mode Rejection Ratio > 140dB
Main Mix Noise
20Hz-20kHz bandwidth, 1/4" Main out, channels 1-4 Trim @ unity gain, channel EQs flat, all channels assigned to Main Mix, channels 1 and 3 Pan left, 2 and 4 Pan right, Reference +4dBu
Main Mix knob fully counterclockwise, channel Gain knobs down:
-104dBu
Main Mix knob unity, channel Gain knobs down:
-90.5dBu
(90dB Signal to Noise Ratio, ref +4dBu)Main Mix knob @ unity, channel Gain knobs @ unity:
-88.5dBu
Total Harmonic Distortion (THD)
1kHz @ +14dBu, 20Hz-20kHz.
Mic in to Main out:
0.005%
Attenuation (Crosstalk)
1kHz relative to 0dBu, 20Hz-20kHz bandwidth, Line in, 1/4" Main Out, Trim @ unity
Main Mix knob down:
-85dBu
Channel Mute/Alt 3/4 switch engaged:
-84dBu
Channel Gain knob down:
-83dBu
Frequency Response
Any input to any output
+0dB/-1dB
20kHz to 60kHz
+0dB/-3dB
20kHz to 100kHz
Maximum Levels
Mic in:
+22dBu
Tape in:
+16dBu
All other inputs:
+22dBu
Main Mix XLR out:
+28dBu
All other outputs:
+22dBu
Impedances
Mic in:
1.3 kilohms
Channel Insert return:
2.5 kilohms
All other inputs:
10 kilohms or greater
Tape out:
1.1 kilohms
All other outputs:
120 ohms
EQ
High Shelving
15db @12kHz
Mid Peaking
12dB @ 2.5kHz
Low Shelving
15db @ 80Hz
Power Consumption:
120VAC, 50/60Hz, 25 watts
Weight:
6 lbs 8 oz. (3 kg)
Mackie 1202 VLZ3 Manual
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