Mackie SRM150 powered loudspeaker review and user guide
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- A review of the smallest member of the Mackie Sound Reinforcement Monitor series, the SRM150. Despite having only a single 5.25" cone loudspeaker, this unit manages to sound surprisingly good, even at relatively high volume levels.
Review includes demonstrations with an SM58 vocal microphone as well as with my Takamine TSF48c acoustic guitar.
Part of this video focuses on inconsistencies and 'creative' aspects of Mackie's specification sheets. The company has long been known for flowery language and hyperbole in its marketing materials, so let's see just how accurate their specs are.
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Companies should pay you to review their products. Very informative and balanced.
Thanks Richard, I try my best to keep things objective :)
I have several SRM 150 monitors. For a normal lounge, or nightclub situation these are fantastic.
As monitors presumably, not as main speakers 😅
@@GLBProductions Actually, I have used them (2) in a "Nursing Home", living room environment. I recall setting up a keyboard in front of a fireplace with a wheelchair/sofa audience of about 20 people. Placement is important. If they're too loud your vocal mic will pick up the monitor and add "mud" to your FOH system. The best placement is on a mic stand, in front of you, pointing back at you.
One of the best presentations on UA-cam! Makes me consider this product. Thanks, Bruno!
Wayne Franks You're welcome Wayne, thanks for watching!
Seriously, the finest reviews I've seen on UA-cam. Well done.
David Stanley Thank you! Comments like yours encourage me to keep going :)
What an excellent review. Very informative and very easy to listen to. Thank you.
You're welcome Ian, thanks for watching.
Agree, a well done review!! Thumbs up Bruno! Enough to convince me to go seek these out... Mackie should consider themselves blessed for such a honest review.
Thanks for watching!
Nice review brother! No extra commentary and exactly what I wanted to know all the way around. Thank you!
+Todd Marx You're welcome, thanks for watching!
Comprehensive and genuinely helpful review. Well explained and held my attention throughout. Many thanks
You're most welcome, thanks for watching!
Really excellent and thorough review. I wish others were this informative and well thought out. I'll be checking out your other videos. Great job!
Thanks for watching and supporting the channel, let me know if you have any questions :)
I use a pair of these powered speakers with a mixer for small venues with great results.
Also, as far as the speaker mounted on a stand facing upwards helps to avoid going straight into your audience's ears with any possible excessive volume.
Bottom line: they work great.
Thanks for the excellent review...!!
Thanks for watching!
Excellent review. Raises the questions I ask. Very thorough.
Thanks for watching :)
This is an oustanding, thourough review. I like it and subscribed just for the sake of supporting you. Thank you Bruno for the time time you spent doing this and for taking the time to reply to all the people who sent you messages. Good luck! :-) And I feel sorry for the 11 people who disliked this review. They must be working for the other companies. LoL
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I recently purchased the Mackie SRM 150. This is an excellent personal monitor for keyboard. I have a mic input on my keyboard so this is also my vocal monitor as well. My keyboard has speakers that are rated at 30W, which is good, but needed just a bit more and this did the trick. I actually have it set at the 9 to 10 o'clock position, 12 o'clock is a little to much. It is a little punchy in that it doesn't have a lot of bass, but I have a 10 powered sub woofer added that I got from an old surround sound system. It adds the extra bass I'm looking for. I did try the mic stand set up but it is extremely wobbly! I do not recommend this set up. I use a separate mic stand and have it centered above the music stand as opposed to having it on the left or right so I can hear it from both ears about the same. I highly recommend this as a personal monitor, just plan on getting a separate mic stand for it.
Great info, thanks for your contribution!
Mark Hourigan I just recently bought it,where exactly can I connect. subwoofer I've gotin order to get morebass formy gigs(1electric acoustic guita r and voice)? after using it I have noticed that. at high levels it lows are poor and you start messing with the nobs with no results thanks
I used a headphone amp to add the sub woofer. Behringer Microamp Ha400 Ultra-Compact 4-Channel Stereo Headphone Amplifier is the one I got on Amazon for about $25. I use one channel for the Mackie SRM 150, one channel for the sub woofer, and I have the other two available for headphones if I need them. This allows you to adjust the level sent to the sub woofer and the level sent to the Mackie SRM 150. When I increase the volume from my keyboard, it also increases the volume to the Sub and SRM 150. Hope this helps.
Thanks
Excellent review and very informative. Very clear articulation and pronounciation.
Thanks for watching!
Great demo, thanks for the post, now looking forward to using my new 150
+Michael Sandilands You're welcome, all the best with your music!
I think this is the most thorough and well-done review of any product I've ever seen.
Thanks for watching, glad you feel that way :)
seriously,I'm bringing this guy with me next time I go to buy a new truck🤙
me too
Amazing review Sir
Jeez, you went through this in depth! Thanks for the amount of effort :)
+Da Spotz Yes that's why they're called review and user guide videos, not just reviews! Thanks for watching!
Excellent review of the product. I found it to be very helpful in making a decision about which small monitor to purchase. Thank you.
That's great to hear, I'm sure it'll serve you well. There are many other products similar to the SRM150 on the market today but it can still hold its own.
I used two of them for voice and music for a one many show, and could use it in pretty big spaces. I either left them on the floor pointed up, or but them on mic stands, depending on set up.
Yes these are surprisingly capable as long as you don't need loud bass.
Thanks.
Good review!
I´m considering to get this for my acoustic band.Portability is a key factor.
MrAnderswt Thanks for watching! As I said in the review, these speakers are great as monitors when space is at a premium.
Brilliant review !
Glad it was helpful!
Nice thorough review of a great little compact monitor. I have used one for 6 years as a personal monitor with a live band, small PA for indoor meetings, personal monitor for acoustic guitar/coffeehouse gigs, and in a pinch, an on stage mixer for mic'd electric guitar and acoustic guitar mixed in the SRM 150 and sent line level to the house system as one guitar channel. It is a little workhorse and if used within it's design envelope will probably last forever. Cheers!
Yup, mine has also lasted many years. Such a shame that Mackie quality control is all over the place at the moment, makes it difficult for me to recommend this unit to customers.
That was very well-done. Thank you so much for taking the time to go into details about inputs, quality of uses, etc.
+Gloria 'Sangreal' You're most welcome, thank you for commenting and for supporting the channel!
great demonstration! thanks
Another great review. Thanks!
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
Excellent work here! Very informative,
Thanks Mark!
Wow, just subscribed. Excellent review
Welcome to the family!
You are a very good reviewer.
Thanks, glad the review was useful!
Thanks again for another informative video. I enjoy your KISS theory style of presentation.
I can understand them.
JimE
blackemmons Glad to hear that, understanding is all important :)
nice review, well done
Very well done!
Thanks for watching Cuong!
is it normal to hear a very little HUM when nothing is plugged into it? is it because it is a class D amp?
No you should not hear anything - if the unit is humming there is likely some issue with your A/C power supply. Class D amps do not generate more or less noise than other amp classes per se, they just have a different way of managing the incoming power :)
nice job on the review!
Mike Ortega Thanks for watching!
You need honky mids for voice to be projected. Sounds good.
Ok that's one way of putting it 😅
@@GLBProductions especially outside
How in the world did toy remove the fuse? I've tried to rock it without hitting the guards and it still won't budge. Help?
It is actually a thermal circuit breaker, not a fuse. When it trips the inside button will pop out revealing a white section - just push to reset.
Nice sounding monitor. One question. Can you turn it upside down and mount to a microphone stand to retain the horizontal orientation of the sound coming out instead of it being angled?
You could try but you would probably damage the threads in the top before long. Plus all your controls would be upside down - not recommended!
I've used the SRM 150 with a microphone boom on top and it was not easy to secure it. The weight of the mic on an arm acted like a lever and swung so undoing the threaded extension on top of the unit. I have had larger lock nuts made to try and overcome this problem but it needs to be tested before you go live.
Now my question!
I use the srm150 as a monitor but want to daisy chain the feed to a further two passive speakers for other band members. I have some JVC 4ohm 20watt speakers from an old stero unit. Is it possible to use these?
Liked your detailed presentation.....good work.
+Peter Brown Yes, I was rather dubious about that setup myself! Much easier to use a separate mic stand for the SRM150 - speeds up setup time too.
The output of the SRM150 is line level, not speaker level, so you would need to use an amplifier for the passive speakers, it's not possible to power them directly from the SRM150.
Thank you Bruno for the wonderful review! I have one question and if you have a moment to answer that'd be much appreciated! I have a Mackie mixer with only 2 x Mon send which are shared among the musicians but I would need an extra monitor for the Singer and I was considering to buy the SRM 150 as a personal monitor for her. If I connect the microphone to channel 2 and then use the thru output of the SRM 150 to feed one channel of the main mixer, would this work without affecting the FOH band mixing? Also, would I be able to add vocal efx from the mixer? Thank you in advance for your attention. Best wishes.
Thanks for watching 😊 Yes you can do this but bear in mind that it would become a stand alone monitor with just her voice in it. You would not be able to add any additional reverb from the mixer.
@@GLBProductions Thank you very much for your prompt answer. Much appreciated!
I am looking for product this year for an audio upgrade at my church, oh, hi again Bruno, and I like this review (well I like all of your reviews, I'm such a novice). My question is about mounting this on a mic stand, does it do well with fold up portable stands or is the heavy round base stands more stable with this speaker due to its weight?
Dennis Neuhaus Hello Dennis :) I've used the SRM150 with both types of mic stands and had good results in both cases. Just make sure you use a quality stand from a company like K&M. In addition, I recommend using a separate stand for the speaker as opposed to putting it on the same stand as your vocal mic.
GLB Productions Thanks Bruno that helps.
would be awesome if you can do a review of the LD Systems MIX6AG2 Stinger 6.5-Inch Active PA
nice presentation...may i know the price of this product?
Thanks Master for your time !!!! I want to know if I have two power mains and two power monitors and a 100' snake, if I can use the snake returns to put the power mains and the power monitors and don't damage the gear?
You can't run power through the audio snake but you CAN run the line level returns from the mixer back to the main and monitor speakers.
GLB Productions Sorry for my ignorance distinguish, then I can put the power mains and power monitors thru the snake returns to the mixer or not 😔?
As a musician - I find when I daisy chain a srm180 to the monitor (as front of house speaker) it works ok - then when I daisy chain a second srm180 as a second front of house speaker it never works. I have been annoyed so many times, especially when I play for live audiences - I end up using only one speaker. I have no confidence in the daisy chain use. Can you help. John
+John Collins Hello John, which inputs and outputs are you using when daisy chaining? And I assume you mean SRM150 rather than SRM180?
Hi, I am sorry I did mean SRM 150 - my apologies. I use a Pioneer CDJ unit (for my backing tracks etc) as output. As mentioned When I connect an SRM 150 to the CDJ - all is ok - when I then connect another SRM150 to the monitor -all is ok. When I then Daisy Chain another SRM 150 to that one I get a very poor output or nothing at all.I have thought of buying another system that is reliable.Thanks for reply - I appreciate it - Please can you help. John
John Collins Thanks for the info. When you say you connect the second SRM150 to 'the monitor' is that the first SRM150? So you have three SRM150s daisy chained together? What input and output connectors are you using, and does it occur regardless of what order you have them in?
Hi, Thanks for reply-- I use DMX 3 PIN CABLE - (male & female etc). It occurs regardless of what order they are in. I have been testing them all this week and now I find the SRM150 Monitor has a strong output and the two other SRM 150 (daisy chained) are very faint. I find them very unreliable and I fear I may have to purchase a new pa system as I don't want to be embarrassed in front of a live audience. Please help - I can't understand what's going on. I would appreciate your help. Thanks John
Hi Great review thinking of purchasing this, I play small venues have Cube Street ex amp looking line out from amp into line in on Mackiesrm150 to use as personal monitor on stage. How do you think this would perform Thanks Len
Hi Len, why would you need the SRM150 if you already have an amplifier?
@@GLBProductions Hi thanks for getting back to me. The reason I wanted to use it as small feedback monitor as playing small venues with amp in front of myself 2 guitarists + vocalist would give us much more clarity in hearing ourselves as the noise from the front ie audience can effect what we hear from amp. Average amount of people present around 80 to 100. Cheers Len
Yes it would work for that but have you considered placing the amplifier behind yourself and to the side so that you can hear it more clearly without blocking the sound to the audience?
Thankyou. You have helped out alot. George
George Roloson You're welcome, all the best with your music. Let me know if you have further questions, I'm always happy to help if I can.
Could you do a review on the TC-Helicon VoiceSolo FX150 ?
Sure will do one as and when I have access to one of those.
Those Mackie guys have sped-up in recent years. Even released a new line of affordable mixers.
Andreev Andrei Yes I saw that, just today in fact! Mackie have had some ups and downs in their product quality but what they are making now seems to be pretty solid.
can I buy the mic stand speaker mount and boom extender?
You may be able to - check with your local Mackie dealer.
please compare with Behringer MPA40BT Pro or Behringer Eurolive B207D
I'm sorry but I don't review Behringer products.
How would I get reverb into this monitor for the vocalist please?
PhotoMusicMan There's no internal reverb, so you'd need to use an external reverb unit or the reverb built into a mixer and route it to the monitor send. I have a couple of videos on this: ua-cam.com/video/GoIiofqEIyU/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/p77y0SFT088/v-deo.html.
Thank you very much.
PhotoMusicMan You're welcome :)
Hi sir, how is behringer B205d..!!
+Robins Live Not recommended - reliability issues.
how does it work, though? I just plugged in my mic and turned it on and it doesn't work.
Double check that you have turned up both the main as well as the channel level controls. Also switch on phantom power if you are using a condenser mic.
mine sounds kind of poor never 150watts,i think not even 50,is this normal or maybe damage?
Easiest way to find out is to compare it with another one that you know is in working order. If your speaker is blown you'll get either no sound or very distorted sound.
thanks mine is neither distorted(unless used at high volume input) nor blown but for some reason it seems to me that the maximum sound is too low I'd say no more than 40watts...does the fuse have anything to do with this?I mean that it could be damaged?thanks
The sound altough is low is clear...
As I said, compare it to another one or even better a new one. No the fuse has nothing to do with it - fuses are either working or not.
Ok ,I'VE got no other to compare with now,I'll sort it out thanks.
Can it be used for Zumba Fitness class
Yes it can but there is not much bass compared to bigger speakers.
Salut prietene.. 🎄❗
Merry Christmas to you too!
@@GLBProductions thank you prietene.. 🎄❗
Great and very complete review.
I have tried one of them recently along with a 250 watt floor monitor . Because the Mackie SRM150 is nearer the vocalist it is very easy to hear. The floor monitor with their 12 inch speaker offer a richer tone but the sound is somewhat lost over the entire stage and more difficult to hear over the band's sound. I will be using a combination of floor monitors across the stage and some mackie SMR 150 for the vocalists and drummer.
Merci beaucoup.
Thanks
Rob Led
robled555 Je vous en prie! Yes, with live sound it's important to get the monitor as close as possible to the performer, especially in the case of vocals. You can also try sidefill monitors, which I prefer because they get the speakers up off the floor and at ear level. See what works best for your situation and volume level.
A peak light would be good.
PhotoMusicMan Agreed, plus some form of signal present indicator or even a simple meter. No doubt Mackie have their reasons for leaving it off.
GLB Productions Do you think only having a 3 band EQ would make this quite awkward to use as a vocal monitor?
PhotoMusicMan Depends on the situation, what vocal mic you are using and how loud you need it to go :) It's not as good as having a 4-band parametric, for sure! The unit is quite well-voiced and I have found that I can get a surprising amount of level out of it.
GLB Productions Off topic, but have you seen the QSC Touchmix? It looks amazing but you have to use the internal effects and can't use external reverbs. I doubt they would measure up to the SI Compact effects. Just wondered if you have any thoughts. It is light and would save me taking out a whole case of effects. My poor back these days!
PhotoMusicMan Yes I have. The only issue with that mixer, which it share with other entry level digital mixers, is that it has physical gain controls, which means that you cannot have full 100% remote control of the mixer. Also I don't like mixing on a touchscreen, I like a mixer to have physical faders. Of course, all of these add weight and bulk, so you need to be aware of your priorities.
Very good review - thanks a lot!
You're welcome :)
Mine gets used for voice, inside, outside, covers one heck of a big area of audience easily, but for guitar, the SRM 150 is pretty useless, just mushes up, even with careful EQ adjustment.
I like it mounted on the mic stand as a monitor in the band. I have a special bracket which isolates speaker vibration from the mic stand, avoiding feedback. Great.
As a PA, my Lunchbox acoustic leaves this one way behind for both guitar and vocals.
Mackie is very good all the same & always does a "pretty good job with most sound applications.
+MrMusic1950 Thanks for your contribution.