Mackie Master Fader 5

LOUD Audio, LLC

About this app

The Mackie Master Fader™ 5.2 app provides complete wireless control over your Mackie DL32R, DC16, DL32S, DL16S, DL1608 and DL806 wireless digital mixer. Proven at more than 5 million live mixes worldwide, the incredibly intuitive Master Fader control app is packed with powerful processing and a rich set of mixing tools for any professional application.

Master Fader is the heart of any DL Series system with a proven, intuitive workflow that leads the industry. Only Mackie can deliver the ease-of-use that Master Fader delivers. With a completely customizable UI that is scalable for users of any skill level, Master Fader is the most adaptable control app available.

A DL Series mixer is required for audio mixing and processing.

Ratings and reviews

Never connects with mixer. The app sees the online DL32R mixer and I can select it. But then it just silently fails to connect. It is as if I'm using the offline/demo mode. There are no error or diagnostic messages. The app makes me feel totally helpless. I've searched online and this connection step is never explained--yet, the iOS devices in the videos connect properly. My other band members use iOS devices and it works for them. It's just this Mackie Android app that fails. Poorly engineered.

Works Well, Except... Two significant problems: 1.) it constantly disconnects from the mixer. That's serious. 2.) The other problem is more of a limitation: when running IEMs, you cannot pan channels left or right, so everything is always mono, which is REALLY sad. Other systems seem to have that capability, so when my church upgrades its system in a few years, we'll probably be getting off the Mackie bus. Too bad, because there's a lot we like about it, but running IEMs in mono is depressing.

This should be the easiest ecosystem to recommend, sadly it's not. The suite of tools is genuinely amazing. The problem is that the app suddenly stopped working for any of our musicians ruining Android 13. If the app wasn't labeled as being compatible with Android, I wouldn't care, if they pumped out a fix for the bug within a week or two of the issue arriving, I wouldn't care. It's now been months with no update. Don't waste your money. Seems like they no longer care about this app.

What's new

This latest Master Fader 5 update provides minor bug fixes for Android 13 compatibility.