RE: OT: Mackie SRM150 / tiny PA

[Jeff Larson <jeff.larson@sailpoint.com>]

> I thought it was higher wattage, though, with two 150-watt
> amps as opposed to the MSR's which are 100-watt? How heavy is the mixer,
> would you say?

You're right.  For some reason I thought it was 150W total but it's
150x2 which I guess would explain the name "Stagepas 300".  Duh.

When detached the mixer is about the size of a Harry Potter novel.
Maybe an inch taller, about the same width, about 3 inches deep.  I
don't have a scale handy but it's more than a pound, less than five.
Lighter than any laptop I've owned.

One word of caution, download the manual and make sure the mixer will
do what you want.  In my case I can't use it as a looping mixer
because I need to create a mix to send into the looper then send the
looper out through the PA.  Since there is only one bus, you can't
have the looper sending to the mixer without the looper's output being
sent back to itself, creating a feedback loop.  What you need is
something like what Mackie calls the "Mute/Alt" bus.  None of the
mixer/speaker packages I found in this price range could do that.

So, I do the interesting mixing with a MOTU Ultralite and just send
a single stereo feed to the Stagepas mixer.

Jeff