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MGR/Tim Warren « Behringer 2004 Mixing Desk »
Published on 03/20/02 at 15:00Purchased second hand, US$300. I wanted a mixer for my home studio setup with several synths, plus the requirement to record accoustic instruments.
Ita a great unit. Solid construction. Typical EQ and Aux sections. 8 XLRs with Phantom and huge range on the preamps. Makes it easy to record any type of source. Behringer clain big head room, and they are right, lots of gain is available, the mixer is suitable for a range of applications.
Great for live, and very good for project studio.
Noise floor seems very low, I've never had any audible noise with all faders right up.
Insert points for the 8 mono channels is cool.
Hardly any dislikes but one major one:
Unit has 4 stereo input pairs, thats cool. What is not cool is that you cant Aux send the stereo channels in stereo! The are summed to the auxiliary. There should be an option to send each channel to a different aux send. With out that, it makes it a compromise in the studio setup because if you use stereo effects, or record from your auxillaries, then you are faced with a reroute to the mono channels, or using the Alt outputs. The Alt outputs are almost ideal, but then you find that it means you cant mute other channels while you are using them as mute and Alt are shared on the same button.
Great construction quality
Minor thing with the design... a 20 channel mixer is quite likely to be something that you setup and leave in one place, its not tiny. But with nearly all the connectors on the top rather than at the back, it makes life messy. Its pretty minor, and i'd probably complain if they were on the back.
Its great, only one issue I mentioned above. For live its a 5 out of 5, especially being perfect for rackmount.
For a small studio its pretty good as long as you are only recording 2 channels.
Its a fantastic live sub-mixer for foldback or dropping drums to stereo.
Its also far better value for money than anything else i've tried of this size.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
Ita a great unit. Solid construction. Typical EQ and Aux sections. 8 XLRs with Phantom and huge range on the preamps. Makes it easy to record any type of source. Behringer clain big head room, and they are right, lots of gain is available, the mixer is suitable for a range of applications.
Great for live, and very good for project studio.
Noise floor seems very low, I've never had any audible noise with all faders right up.
Insert points for the 8 mono channels is cool.
Hardly any dislikes but one major one:
Unit has 4 stereo input pairs, thats cool. What is not cool is that you cant Aux send the stereo channels in stereo! The are summed to the auxiliary. There should be an option to send each channel to a different aux send. With out that, it makes it a compromise in the studio setup because if you use stereo effects, or record from your auxillaries, then you are faced with a reroute to the mono channels, or using the Alt outputs. The Alt outputs are almost ideal, but then you find that it means you cant mute other channels while you are using them as mute and Alt are shared on the same button.
Great construction quality
Minor thing with the design... a 20 channel mixer is quite likely to be something that you setup and leave in one place, its not tiny. But with nearly all the connectors on the top rather than at the back, it makes life messy. Its pretty minor, and i'd probably complain if they were on the back.
Its great, only one issue I mentioned above. For live its a 5 out of 5, especially being perfect for rackmount.
For a small studio its pretty good as long as you are only recording 2 channels.
Its a fantastic live sub-mixer for foldback or dropping drums to stereo.
Its also far better value for money than anything else i've tried of this size.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com