While there are a wide range of companies that have built solid reputations making quality audio mixers, for the past decade or so few have had a better reputation for both value and dependable quality than the Mackie brand. Much of the reason for Mackie’s success has been its reputation for balancing quality of sound performance, with nearly indestructible quality and signal flow flexibility. A case in point is the Mackie 1402-VLZ Pro.