All user reviews for the Crest Audio HP-8/40

Church rock / blues / classic rock / Modern rock

Don't know. It was already setup in my church.

The good is it has plenty of Aux sends (10), and other features which is useful for live performance such as group mute (4).

Taking into account that this is a large board (40ch + 5 stereo ch), and for that it's reasonably priced ($6000), the sound could be little cleaner. When you monitor PFL the instrument coming into the board sound's pristine, but when you monitor AFL at monitor send, you can hear some grit, and grain. Very clean acoustic guitar or keyboard will not go out the board the way it came into it. I would not recommend this board for recording (which this board isn't designed for anyways) for this reason.

Construction seems good on the outside, but there seems to be some weakness between the channel strips and monitor section. Our board is relatively new (about 2 years), but already one of the monitor send is broken. It's not due to physical abuse because the board never gets moved.

The board has plenty of features and you will probably not run out of features to do live sound work with board. It's heavy (150 lbs.) and big so you'll definitely need a truck and good flight case to move this board around.

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