Mackie DL Series Reference Guide

Mackie DL806 and DL1608 Reference Guide
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Reverb Type
Reverb simulates the eect of room variations. The Master Fader app comes with nine reverb types to
choose from: plate, ambience, small room, medium room, large room, hall, cathedral, gated reverb and
spring.Abuttondisplayingthecurrentreverbtypemaybetappedtorevealtheotherreverbtypes.Tap
the reverb you would like for the selected channel. The image will change to reect the reverb type chosen.
Reverb Type Description Examples
Plate Platereverbsemulatevintagemechanicalreverberationthatis
generated with a metal plate. Its sound is characterized by lots
of early reections and no pre-delay.
Perfectforthickeningpercussive
instruments, such as a snare drum, or
tight vocal arrangements.
Ambience Ambienceisthesurroundingsoundeld.
This reverb adds depth and space.
Ambienceisgoodforscoringmovie
soundtracks and post-rock bands
utilizing a lot of depth in their sound.
Small Room The small room reverb simulates the reverberation
(persistence of sound) in a typical small room. Small rooms are
typicallycoined“dead”roomswithlittletonoreverb.
Some artists record guitars (and/
or bass) from a bathroom to get a
“punchier”soundoutoftheiramp.
Medium Room The medium room reverb simulates the reverberation
(persistence of sound) in a typical medium room.
Amediumroomwouldbegood
for thickening up a bass sound
without it sounding muddy.
Large Room The large room reverb simulates the reverberation
(persistence of sound) in a typical large room. Large rooms are
typicallycoined“live”roomssincetheyhavealotofreverb.
Sound tends to carry in large rooms
with a lot of open space. This works
well for a good, boomy kick sound.
Hall This reverb is characterized by its large, spacious
sound, long pre delay and vibrant tone.
Addslifetoacousticinstruments
and vocals from solos to full-on
symphonies and choirs.
Cathedral This reverb emulates the extremely long tails, dense diusion
and long pre-delays and reections that would be found in a
very large, stone-walled house of worship.
Gives amazing depth to choirs,
wind instruments, organs and
soft acoustic guitars.
Gated Reverb Gated reverbs incorporate an age-old trick whereby an
extremely dense reverb is processed through a fast gate for an
interesting, albeit articial, sound.
Most often used to fatten snare
drums and toms without clutter.
Spring Aspringreverbusesatransduceratoneendofaspringanda
pickup at the other end to create and capture vibrations in a
metal spring. The longer the spring, the longer the decay time
of the reverberation.
Spring reverbs are typically used on
guitar ampliers or organs in a rock
band format.

Mackie DL Series Specifications

General

Brand	Mackie
Model	DL Series
Category	Music Mixer
Language	English