All user reviews of 5/5 for the Behringer DDX3216

a few gaps in the paramtrage (compared to 01V96), I find it very complte (unless also among the spdif in and hits that take up among others).

USE

Very easy to use, I find it very intuitive. (Easier than yamaha o it sometimes gets lost in the menus if you do not use the same model all the time)

SONORITS

The pramps are transparent (no breath (-72 with the substantive gains - calculus with my HDSP9652 RME ADAT))
The converters are very well (sound recordings sound good in general)

NOTICE GLOBAL

For almost 5 years of use (and yes, I bought the very beginning 2000 with the ADAT card! So do not complain about the price quality for I am very happy even this price (except now the 01V96 is almost the same price as the DDX3216 there 5 years 500 1000 see prs) I have never encountered worries, even at ventillo who has never made a monster sound! (perhaps the first models were stronger than 600 new versions!)

Yes brackets supplied 19 "
16 channels with 16 options (adat interface, tdif'AES / EBU) 16 bus dep to 4, 4 fx dep
XLR Jacks 12-16-RCA + SPDIF 2in2out
4-band EQ paramtrique (good quality!)
4 multi-ffects Intgr (4 pocesseurs have 26 groups of effects)
Echentillonage: 44.1/18khz
Automation
SMPTE sync, MTC

UTILIZATION

Can be used without doc! so little that we have a little experience numriques consoles.
Everything is clear, logical and accessible.
The manual is clear and we even offer courses on DIFFERENT effects / compression.

SOUNDS

Very accurate 24-bit converters
Very suitable filters and effects hallucinate.
Good dynamic

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for about 4 months
The +: automation! effects, compressors on each slice and especially ergonomics!
The -: an extension for 16 classic tracks suplmentaires.
I used a 01v and believe me there is no picture! Best EQ, effects, filters, notch Lighter and larger, long-fader + ...
Report qualitprix: Imbat!
I think it nya no better in this price range, although any dpend requirements of each. For my part I use in home studio to mix prods style "house music" and the DDX3216 is perfect for me!

All of www.ddx3216.com CHARACTERISTICS

UTILIZATION

The machine configuration is quite simple and intuitive once you have understood the mode of operation of faders on four layers (a good half hour to set up 16 channels of 6 attractions diffrent rglages with EQ and effects). The internal routing is complete and trs allows many configurations and mixing Different. Function calls (to, FX, Dynamics) are simple and LCD rgler afffiche always what we are doing.

SOUNDS

All ingrdients an analog console, a patch, a processor and a dynamic effect processor is runic in one case even without the hassles of cables. The effects are especially interesting trs for live, they may be less Defines some external rack, including the Tagus compression. For registration you should use some peripherals cot for a more welcoming. Because the converters are good quality and well transcribe the dynamics but the sound is a little cold nanmoins from a console anologique.

OVERALL OPINION

J'utlilise complment the DDX3216 in a MX-9000, the ddx sourtout I use for mixing live band, or to return management. For recording I use the MX-9000 that allows me to keep the warmth of its original. The DDX is a good console trs numrique for home studio, and the pre-production of contemporary music. It will be a fair bit to record a jazz band in the studio. The price and functions it offers great years ahead. Do not forget that c THE FIRST numrique Behringer console, and is much more enjoyable than a 01-V Yamaha did not have its first test shot ... Forget to keep the OS of the machine day and load factory presets found on the behringer site!

CHARACTERISTICS: see site Behr
regret: no physical connection to analog external effect. There's much ass 4 outputs default assigns dpart aux1-2-3-4, but no return other than on the conventional routes. It's pretty boring to me. And if we assign to these outputs to dpart, we lose the possibility to assign buses. For people who do not have a sound card equipped with ADAT port (available as an option on the DDX3216) was boring.

UTILIZATION

Simple to use. It was my Premire digital and the small 50-page manual is almost useless.
Everything is hand door.
Regrets:
between the numrique spdif can not route as a somewhat boring way 13/14
the spdif out is necessarily the master a little too boring
I also regret that it is not possible to make a real assignment from other than group 8 (enters from the top has had t).

Otherwise, the happiness bar. The memory, automation ...
The four effects, compressors for work by an amateur like mine, it widely. enough. Economy are made of cable!

SOUNDS

Then the high dbat converters ....
Well not a great ear, I was not shock me. But as I read it I know in the 21st century o ad da converters are either good or trs good!
Pramp on mic, I do not care, I do not branch as synths and bar ...

The effects are decent enough and plenty of guys like me whose only ambition is to make music for themselves.

OVERALL OPINION

I just have (1 week). I am still discovering, but it is so simple that I think I have seen the biggest dj.
I think acqurir ADA8000 extension that plugs into the port to be 8 adat between analog and more (16 is not just for me).
Automation and especially the memory, I believe that today would be difficult without it

See other opinions

UTILIZATION

Unlike other opinion, it is very simple and far more ergonomic than o1v.
Having used all consoles and numriques yamaha it, live, studio, small scne style piano bar or large type scne 20kW, no worries, and a quick extra.

SOUNDS

The converters are nice but too cold, which is why I couple with two converters a rack lamp.
Effects and are equa to live, but not in the studio.
The dynamic works as it should, but always with the problem of coldness.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a year and a half, and frankly we shall adopt to tell me about the yamaha o2r96 apart, but the price is not the same carrment.
Small point which is a shame, behringer not come out the plug to turn it into a control surface for Pro Tools.
For the price, the best plan of march.

Rackable (using two brackets supplied)
16 analog tracks (including 12 and 4 XLR jack)
16 digital tracks
16 bus
4 Auxiliary
Parametric Equalizer + gate + compressor on each track

4 built-in effects processors.

Sampling at 44.1 or 48 KHz
By snapshot and dynamic automation (dream)
MIDI sync, adat, SPDIF

UTILIZATION

Come from the world of analog, it did not take me more than half an hour to get used to it. The use is very intuitive: you select a track and there is everything you want.
The routing possibilities are virtually endless.
The manual is more than adequate (or surplus)

SOUNDS

The converters are doing their job. The preamps too.
The effects are very useful and very often interressants in my case.
"Very good" to ehancer, the Plate reverb and the stereo chorus.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for two months now and I do not know how I have waited so long to buy it.
For the price (650 € in MusicStore) is the best console that can be found.

I am not at all agree with the last review (which I suspect the author had never touched the table). The DDX3216 a very good restaurant with a quality / price ratio unbeatable ...

I would do it again in a picosecond choice

-Not try to Racker
Some limit-e / s analog direct outputs have fun but also does good is a digital and that price should not ask for the moon.
Conection-levels, trs well nothing to say.
Eq them lack a bit of precision for my taste
Upscaling in 24/48 Sufis largely for my own use
-The internal automation I have not used, for against the console used to control the mixer of Cubase and midi faders motoriss after the mix is ​​internal gnial (nb: no HUI mode fashion so tlcomande not available for pro tools ... grrrrr: /

UTILIZATION

Dja-for anyone who used a mix numrique table using the DDX is a breeze, trs intuitive for those coming from analog must well faloir 5 / 10 minutes more to get used to the concept
I do not remember not having opened the manual

SOUNDS

-I found rather transparent converters, taken on acoustic 12-string with a large diaphragm microphone Chinese, trs aproach its really natural sound (at least the end of what my ears still hear saturax guitar sound natural)
Trs pramplis them are clean as broadly comparable to those of my digi 002
For effects-not bad sharck the dsp (the Memme than creamware, or on some amps high ranges like H & K Zenter) do their job but nothing more, for against the fact that there is a dynamic section for each is really great.

OVERALL OPINION

I can use it for a prs 3 months
Most:

- Dynamic per
- 4 multis can DPAN
- The "meter band" at the fader Intgr
- Small and flexible
Price-quality RAPORT absolutely unbeatable on the nine

les:

-The fact that the input output S / P DIF are not assignable or you want *
-That the e / s numriques spares either otpion (since 16 tracks of their consoles are DDIS)
-Number of analog output limits 6 and spares including 4 rpart bus / to
The fan-not silencieu.
-Not compatible pro tools (especially since their last mulate the control surface so it'll have HUI probably not much more expensive to upgrade a kit like Mackie HUI has for its control surface)

a few gaps in the paramtrage (compared with 01V96), I find trs complte (except SPDIF input and also the tape that take place in other entries).

UTILIZATION

Very easy to use, I find it intuitive trs. (Easier than the yamaha o one sometimes gets lost in the menus if you do not use the same MODEL all the time)

SOUNDS

The pramps are transparent (no breath (-72dB gain with background - calculate with my RME HDSP9652 ADAT in))
The converters will rev well (taken from his sound good in general)

OVERALL OPINION

For almost five years of use (and yes, I bought it in 2000 while beginners with ADAT card! So do not complain of the quality price because I am me trs happy even this price (except that now the 01V96 is almost the same price as the DDX3216 5 years ago 500 prs see 1000) I have never encountered worries, the same ventillo level that has never made a noise monster (can be the first model taient stronger than 600 new releases!)

Is Rack? yes
What is the type of connection (RCA, Jack, XLR ...)? XLR microphone inputs, line inputs for Jack
How many lanes, bus attendant, departures, returns ...)? 16 channels in native range in 32 with a card and two ADA8000 adat.
The parametric equalizer is it? full 4-band parametric
An effects section is it integrated? ... For digital consoles: 4 multi-effects built acceptable.
Automation is supported? yes

UTILIZATION

The general configuration is it simple? yes
The usual functions are they easily accessible? very
The manual is clear and sufficient? ... Little use: it is an intuitive console.

SOUNDS

Overall sound quality is good.

OVERALL OPINION

I have three, and used live outdoors for 4 years. The live and the outdoors are demanding circumstances, and I had 2 times of trouble, but for reasons that would have impacted any console (console in the water, and console forgotten in the sun, after drying and cooling, ddx return to life!).
Personally, I prefer the interface of ddx that of yam. that have a slightly higher sound quality.
The value for money of these consoles is unbeatable. They have a reputation dragged major downtime, I did not have this concern. I have three, then, and I bought in a failed, I repaired and works every day since. I said all along, alerted on the forums for information failures in the heating power supplies, I grafted additional fans on my boxes in my lim consoles.
I would do if this choice? yeah, definitely. I look also forward to X32 the behringer.

For CHARACTERISTICS, visit the Behringer.
It is a console numrique, do not forget to synchronize with the rest of the hardware.
Otherwise, some will say that is the Behringer!

UTILIZATION

Me, I have AIM routing functions, safeguarding paramtres MDIA * Smart and visualization of the level on each channel.

* With adapter PMCI

SOUNDS

I use it with the expansion card connects to a 1616 ADT ALESIS HD24.
The 3216 synchronizes the HD24.
Personally, I 'm very satisfied. Not seeking any color in the sound, but plutt transparency, it suits me well!
When it is 100% mastery operation, it provides good service.
Trslgre coloration in the acute to the headphone jack.
The fan of the original noise was cold, I have replaced by an equivalent MODEL and now ... silence! (12volt-100-mA 40mmX40mm)
Available at Conrad REFERENCE: 53 14-29 73 at a price of 9 Euros.

OVERALL OPINION

Nothing to do with the consoles diffrent Behringer that I tried. The DDX3216 has convinced me its price over quality.
I use it for about two years (every day) from the fan, no worries.
I keep my and my mackie soundcraft in relief, but at the risk of shock to some, I prfre my 3216!
There are better, but that is much more expensive .....

Added 10 fvrier 2006

I possde this console since 2002 and I 'm used almost every day.
I record concerts often "classic" in DIFFERENT places (churches, chapels) where the temprature and the rates are quite hygromtrie nfastes for the electronics.
The heckling by van dplacements somewhat DDX3216!
Well, not a failure, not the least abnormal!
I use it mainly input / output interface via ADAT numriques 1616 with routing functions.
The techniques DIFFERENT problem faced by some of you, s' explained by the application of a pricing policy "trs" emissions that fact that Chinese manufacturers Behringer consult DIFFERENT . Thus, despite the specifications imposed by Behringer, making this console is in Ingala of SERIES SERIES.
If we can criticize dmarches commercial products of the brand, it is difficult to criticize the console that benefitted from an excellent qualitprix.


Added November 18, 2008
Since 2002, not a failure, always Fidler!
If it falls in the road, I make you sign ...

* Is the rack?
Yes
* How many lanes, bus, auxiliary sends, returns ...)?
32 channels 16bus, 4 auxiliary
* What type of connectors (RCA Jack, XLR ...)?
* An effects section is integrated? ... For digital consoles:

* What is the accuracy of the sample (bits / kHz)?
Good RAS
* Automation is supported?
yes
* What type of sync are supported? ...
ADAT sync or word clock

UTILIZATION

Excellent console in use!

SOUNDS

Sounds great! Maybe not optimal, but some will say though, I love!

OVERALL OPINION

* For how long have you been using it?
I use it regularly now for a little over a year.
* What thing do you like most/least about it?
I love everything about this console and I've never had problems with (though I use it often in difficult conditions (cold, humidity ,...).
* Did you try many other models before getting this one?
Yes, I fiddled a little Yamaha 01V96. And I tried the Tascam DM3200, these two are great too, but I love my ddx so I prefer it in common use in the past two
* What is your opinion about the value for the price?
Excellent!
* Knowing what you know now, would you make the same choice? ...
Absolutely!

The ddx digital mixer has all the standard studiotools on board, like channel delay, gate, compressor, effects, and even phase reverse. It's just a complete production package, can't think of something missing. the expansion slots give you the opportunity to hook up adat , tdif en aes-ebu equipment. In the near future , i'm going to install a adat board in the ddx and in my pc, so i can record up to 32 channels digital audio on my computer. Wow, at that price!!

Price paid: 1399 euro

UTILIZATION

Not much has to be said here, very easy! I started without reading the manual. Offcourse, when you're a newbie in studioland, it's neccessary to read the manual. But hey, why should you buy such an advanced device then?

SOUNDS

Well, let's be honest, it's not a yamaha o2r96, but i'm not owning a 1 milion professional studio. For semi professional use, especialy when you won't make any acoustic recordings, it's perfect. I believe the pre amps, can be of better quality.But in my situation, only line gear is connected except for one condensor mic. And even that one sounds great! effects are pretty good, but i wont sell my lexicon! dynamics are a bit lame, better use the inserts to route them to youre analog compressor. But in most circumstances, they are pretty usefull.

OVERALL OPINION

The first range of analog behringer mixers were not that robust. but i have to say, this one is just as robust as e.g. the yamaha o1v, wich i recently laid my hands on for a mixjob. No negative comments here!

i love it!!!! Because of it's price it's a perfect substitute for the more expensive mixers from e.g. yamaha. I own it just for a few days, but this is the best buy i made in years!

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Unknown (January 1-, 2003)