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Meeting held December 8, 1993, at Mackie Designs in Woodinville, Wa.
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Meeting held December 8, 1993, at Mackie Designs in Woodinville, Wa.
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On a cold, windy, and rainy! December 8, the 37 members and guests of the Pacific Northwest Section met at the world headquarters of Mackie Designs in Woodinville Washington, a suburb of Seattle. Our host was the king of mixers himself, Greg Mackie.
Those attending were treated to a viewing of, "The Mackie Home Studio Tour Video (Clamboots in Paradise)," a factory tour (via videotape so we could see the hordes of smiling faces), a factory tour (on foot, which facilitates ogling naked mixers and twisting their knobs), and last but not least, a sumptuous array of edibles. After viewing the videos, Mackie invited questions from the group and gave a short history of his contributions to the Northwest audio community. Mackie's influence in audio dates back to the late 60's when he founded TAPCO and developed a low-cost high-headroom inexpensive mixer aimed at rock and roll bands. He left TAPCO in 1976 and started AudioControl and made a variety of equalizers for the home hi-fi and (later) autosound markets. TAPCO was subsequently acquired by and absorbed by ElectroVoice. At AudioControl, he developed the SA-3050A real-time analyzer, making an affordable analyzer a reality. In 1987 he founded Mackie Designs and returned to his first love: mixers. The phenomenal success of the Mackie CR-1604 and 8-bus mixers speaks for itself. Afterwards, everyone was given a copy of the Mackie Home Video and a copy of their CD, "Mixed on a Mackie."
Reported by Rick Chinn, PNW Section Committee Member |