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Hello and welcome

 to one of many download-

able web editions of Mackie’s Product Hook-Up 
Guide. Since 1992, we’ve been including these 
helpful “connection maps” in our 

In Your Face

 

product guides, and we’ve been urged to continue 
doing so because they’re so gosh-darned help-
ful. Now, we’ve split our hook-ups into product 
famlies, and made them available to you over this 
new-fangled “Internet” thingy that everyone is 
talking about these days.

There will be documents that cover hooking 

up our compact VLZ

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 PRO Series, Analog 8•Bus 

Series consoles, CFX Series effects mixers, DFX 
Series compact effects mixers, the D8B digital 
console, the HDR24/96 hard disk recorder, PPM 
Series powered mixers, the FR Series amplifi ers, 
SR Series front-of-house mixers, and our Active 
loudspeakers.

Inside you’ll fi nd lots of useful information 

— most likely your questions will be answered 
here. We realize that there’s no possible way to 
cover every single question or application in so few 
pages because new ways to use Mackie products 
are invented every day. You may come up with 
some ideas on how to do what you want by look-
ing at the various diagrams we’ve included here.

Keep in mind that a good half of the battle in 

hooking up our products is having the proper 
connections. Check the cables ’n’ plugs that you 
already have with the diagrams on the next 
page. We know it may look boring, but one of 
these drawings could save your life. Well, maybe 
not your life, but probably a lot of weeping and 
sorrow. And don’t forget to check out the tech 
tips/FAQs document also available for download 
on the web at www.mackie.com/

techsupport

If you don’t fi nd the answers you’re after, then 

why not give our mighty Tech Support gang a 
call? These folks have tons of experience in the 
real world, and they’ve got lots of equipment and 
mixers at their beck and call. They’re aching to 
share their knowledge with you. (And calling them 
would be a very humanitarian thing to do — they’re 
located in the dank sub-basement of our building 
and they rarely get visitors. Your call just may be 
the one that keeps their spirits alive.)

Call Mackie Tech Support toll-free (in the U.S.) 

at 800-258-6883 (Monday through Friday, 7 AM 
to 5 PM Pacifi c Time) with any Mackie product-
question you can conjure. Put them through the 
wringer! We encourage it.

Incidentally, the Mackie Product Hook-Up Guide 

(Web Editions) were put together from within the 
confi nes of the Mackie Digital Mosh Pit — located 
on the second fl oor near the Area Of Refuge — by 
the well-meaning, super-preening Mackie Macin-
tosh Department. We used Adobe InDesign

®

Illustrator

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, Photoshop

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, and Acrobat

®

 on a 

number of suped-up big daddy Macs.

Oh yeah: Copyright © 2002 Mackie Designs Inc.

All Rights Reserved. 
The following are trademarks or registered trade-
marks of Mackie Designs Inc.: “MACKIE.”, the 
“Running Man” fi gure, VLZ, XDR, D8B, HUI, CFX 
Series, FR Series, and HR Series.

PRINTING NOTE: These pages were built 21cm wide (8.26in) by 27.94cm (11in) tall to 

accommodate the printers of both our North American users and our users around the 
globe. This PDF will print at 100% on both “Letter” sized and “A4” sized paper (with room in 
the left margin for hole punching).

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