Mackie - Big Knob

The Big Knob is a simple and powerful audio control center that offers four important features to musicians and engineers to make music: level of control, selection of studio monitors, input source selection, control and Talkback helmets .

Precise Level Control
Using a big handy knob, Big Knob lets you adjust volume like our ancestors very old audio (Ingeniaurus analogus) - with a simple, intuitive knob, not with the mouse and the screen. The end result is a higher degree of precision and faster level settings.

Selecting Monitors
When it comes to mixing, pros know it's best to get a second or even a third opinion. Big Knob lets you quickly switch between 3 pairs of studio monitors, or 2 studio monitors and a subwoofer, or any combination of powered speakers.

List of Sources
On the input side, Big Knob lets you connect up to 4 stereo input sources at once. This means you can simultaneously connect the outputs of your computer / workstation, your CD player, your cassette deck and even your turntable by using the built-in high quality RIAA preamp. You can even connect keyboards, guitars, drum machines, samplers - anything you want to hear in your monitors. What makes Big Knob great for comparing your mixes progression compared to your favorite CDs, for archiving your old LPs, jamming along to your favorite tracks, and much more.

Headphones and Talkback Section Control
With its built-in talkback microphone and activation buttons, Big Knob lets you quickly communicate with musicians in the studio and recording booth - more tedious gestures through the window! Big Knob also has two headphone outputs with separate mix bus, which solves the communication needs of most computer studios.

All Appropriate Connections
Although its brushed gray button turns the head, the back of the Big Knob also required. You will find three separate Monitor output with independent level controls; stereo outputs 2-Track A and 2-Track B with level selection switches; a DAW stereo output for your computer; a Studio output with level control; a Phones Mix input with level selection switch; stereo source inputs 2-Track A and 2-Track B with level control; a DAW Mix input for your computer with level control; and even a Phono input with level control for direct connection of your turntable.

Sound quality
Because Big Knob plays a crucial link between recording output and studio monitors, we awarded extreme importance on a clean and uncompromising sound quality. For this reason, Big Knob features ultra-low noise OP amps, components extremely low tolerance and advanced technology. All this ensures superb sound in critical listening environments, and high reliability - for everyday use in the studio, day as night