All user reviews for the Behringer Eurorack MX602A

For the price, the number of features is incredible! 100% balanced ins and outs for $69, it is a miracle!

Price paid

$69

UTILIZATION

Super easy to use

SOUNDS

The sound is excellent, again for $69! Of course you cna get better quality if you pay a thousand or more, but frankly the noise floor is very low, perfect for waht I do with it (I use it to control the volume of my amplified speakers 20/20bas).

OVERALL OPINION

Looks very solid. metal box. knobs may loosen after a while, i havent had mine for too long so I cant say for sure

I love it! Very useful. Super cheap (again)

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Unknown ( 5-, 2002)

The mic. pre-amps are great, you get a really high out-put, with "ultra-low noise" just like it says on the tin. The eq's are fairly musical, sweeping mids would have been nice, but heh! Six channels in all, though two are mono and shared with the mic. inputs(also mono). Theres a stereo aux send/return, and also phantom power for the mics.

Price paid

£75.00

UTILIZATION

Its so easy to use, any one familiar with a half decent stereo could figure it out. My only problem is that it has knobs instead of sliding faders for the master and channels. I just set it up plugged in and recorded till my heart was content(ish). This is a great mixer for anyone who can only spare a small area, or if you aren't planning to record an entire band with it. Though a three piece might be ok!

SOUNDS

The sound is incredible for the price, I record mainly vocals and acoustic guitars through it, mixing the pick-up and the miked sound for the guitar and generally a straight mic for the vocals. The sound is consistently good for all applications that I've used it for.

OVERALL OPINION

The components used are boasted as the same that are in all there models, just on a smaller scale I presume. It is a durable little thing, I accidently dropped a fairly heavy container on it, which hit the knobs full on, leaving it without a scratch. It is ideal for the singer song writer / recording artist in a sense that it is portable and could be easily put in a bag with some mikes and a minidisk player to record gigs or for more serious location specific recordings (as long as theres a power supply).

The difference that this mixer has made to my recordings without breaking the bank is too great to express. For the enthusiast on a budget the only mixer I've seen that comes close is the spirit folio notepad which retails at around £50.00s more than I paid for this and I think that I was overcharged by a twatty salesman, but I'm still rather joyfull over my purchase.

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Unknown ( 7-, 2002)

This lil' mixer provides some very clean sounds that you would only expect from bigger consoles and it's perfect for small home studios. Fits near the computer's Monitor and has a very nice 48v Phantom power Mic Pre-Amp for Condenser mics. What kinda disappointed me is that it doesn't have a power switch(Atleast not one that i've discovered yet). I literally got to disconnect power cord to turn it off.

Price paid

$79

UTILIZATION

It's very straight foward. everything is layed out perfectly.

It's pretty good for live applications although you'll probably run out of inputs for all your synths and mics. But it does sound farely good for its size.

SOUNDS

Very nice clean sound for a lil mixing console. Maybe if there was an automated version with sliding faders in the same compact size it would be nice.

OVERALL OPINION

It's a must for all my vocal recordings. Love the pre-amps very clean.

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Unknown ( 3-, 2003)

Very satisfied. I bought it mainly to do live stereo recordings of band practice sessions and hooked it up to a Philips home-stereo CD recorder and pair of Behringer ECM8000 phantom omni condensers (mics designed for measurement, but they make superb room recording mics - and they're only $40 each! I recommend these mics highly.). I put the MX602A head-to-head with a $350, 12-channel Mackie board that it's three times the size and weight and it perfomed just as well. About the only thing we're still trying to figure out is how to get two instrument inputs mixed with miked drums - but with no drums from the amp - and sending that to the CD recorder.

Price paid: $69 USD

UTILIZATION

The manual is written for sound engineers, and it shows. I don't understand a lot of it. On the other hand, I really don't know all the possibilities, so I would basically need a crash course in the fundamentals of sound engineering to really understand. This little board is a powerful tool for my music and there will be a learning curve for me. The board is really an instrument unto itself and will take some time to master. But even with the sound geek jargon, the manual conveys the pride and excitement of the Behringer team and I felt like they really want me to be happy with their products. It has no on/off switch. When you plug it in, it's on. That's a minor inconvenience.

SOUNDS

Mindblowing cleanliness, even for a mixer at four times the cost. We cranked the amp up to a sound way beyond what you would ever normally use and just heard a slight hiss from the mixer. We did the same with the Mackie and heard a slight rumble. It's about the same amount of noise, just in different frequencies, and undetectable at normal playing or recording volumes. We did notice the EQs didn't seem to have a huge affect on the sound. The EQs are somewhat weak in that regard. But it's clean, which is most important. We can mess with the EQ at the instrument. Man, I'm stoked a $69 mixer even HAS EQs, even if they're not particularly effective.

OVERALL OPINION

It's as tough as hell. Would I take it to a gig? I'd take it to war.

My bandmates like its smallness so much, they want me to bring it to use as our mixer for gigs, instead of the other guy's big Mackie. We're just three in the band, so we can get away with it, but it probably wouldn't have enough inputs for a bigger band. It's so small and light that I've put scratchy velcro on the back and it holds fast to the fuzzy fabric on the side of the amp. If you had to, you could wear it, it's that petite. We've used it for practice sessions and put it through the paces. I doesn't do a lot of fancy stuff, but what it does, it does exceedingly well, at a good price, in little space, and with VERY clean sound. Mackie and other makers should really study this low cost/limited function/high quality/compact size niche or Behinger will eat their lunch. And it looks cool.

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Unknown ( 4-, 2003)