I think your a dip shit! let me tell you why. I googled m-powered pro tools and the new i series onyx mixers because I was interested in how it intergrates with pro tools m-powered in hopes to find someone who actually tried these 2 together and could give me some real insight. Me and the rest of the fuckin planet would like to know this!!! I came across Joe the flow whatever who actually claimed to have tested this set up only to be dissapointed by his fucking worthless and lenghthy bableing about the mixer. Then totally bewildered after 10 grueling minutes of reading through a sea of worthless bullshit why in the fuck someone would post an article about the compatibility of a mixer/interface and the software to only describe the mixer and leave the rest of the world hangin!!! Look jackass the article suggest the intergration of to seperate devices which means WE WANT TO KNOW HOW THEY WORK TOGETHER!!! GET IT?  “TOGETHER”. If I wanted to know just about the fuckin mixer I could’ve and did go to Mackie.com or to digidesign to learn about the m-powered software. OK, with that said, maybe you should re-name this article MACKIE i series onyx mixer written by the DIP SHIT who just wants to here himself babble like a stupid fuckin’ cheerleader the day before prom!!!
thanks I hope I did’nt offend anyone Im just speaking my mind!!
The Rooster

Someone’s pissed.

Have you tried any recording via firewire?
I did, and the recorded levels are way too low, compared with any similar product I have ever used.

In fact, recording normal voice will push the mic gain knob to max and the recorded file will be only at maximum 8% (peaking) from the total range.

Using the same mics (Shure dynamic or Neumann condenser) on any other mixer will get 90% covered with gain knob at about 2 o clock.

So, kind o f big difference.
Practically unusable for any other but really loud instruments or additional preamp cascaded in front of the mixer (this will rise the noise level and color sound more).

Conclusion: for home recordings, practically unusable.

I need more gain/output on a single mic on my new 820i.
Problem: low levels—an output of minus 20 to minus 7, even when I push the gain, level, and main mix knobs to 3pm.

For a single dynamic microphone level, I am setting the gain up to +50 (past 3 oclock), also turned that channel level and main mix up past +5 and the level meters are just responding up to minus 7.

Any suggestions to increase gain?  Am I missing something?
Thank you for your time and assistance.
Sincerely,
Keith

KH, nothing you can do, the “I” Mackie series is just lame on gain.
Since they have moved the factory to Behringer-China, Mackie products gave changed the quality.

Don’t nobody fuck with the Rooster. Oh no. No no no.