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Published on 03/02/06 at 08:52
Strengths:
Cheap, effective ... Behringer thank you. Paid € 129 in MegaHertz.

Finally, we can repeat any time (drum machine, guitar simultaneously with HP, DI bass, keyboard ... all in the headphone!)

A few complaints:
1 The entries do not accept a very high signal, or they have tendency to saturate, and there is nothing to indicate! After various tests, it seems that it comes from my device??

<p class="bbcode-offtopic"> Off topic: <span>Response to ZavierXP - Thanks for the bit of information ... obvious ... But I do obviously not talking about that! The saturation of which I speak is born when all indicators are largely green (since it is necessary to specify such things ... lol)
I misspoke, and I was misunderstood ... deSolla.

Here are the details ... :
The small LED which you speak you learn about two things: the level of pre-amplification of the input signal from the preamp general, and the level of the signal output by each section ... Even with a signal level of a wild entry, the LEDs of the input section of my device does not display more than -30 dB ... Therefore the LEDs do not provide information directly to the input level in the device but on the amplification of the signal by the camera ... Everyone follows?

Thus, my indicators can be in the green to -30, yet the sound is distorted already! Strange ...

Clearly, either the input stage of my camera to a very weak tolerance against what it says in the manual, since it is in theory capable of handling far more than the 4 dB, the LEDs of the section General pre-amplification does not work (unlikely since it is easy to know the level sent to the HA4700 from the previous device in the audio chain.)
In this case, whether tested out of my TLaudio C1 or 01V96 (when reliable gear to control the output level), the sound level quickly saturates HA4700, while it is still very much in line levels tolerated (-10 to +4 dB). You plug the headphones into the headphone output of the 01V96 to the same noise level ... like, the sound is clean ...</span>

2 ° A light breath on this output 2 and 3 (No 1 and 4, why ...) which pre-amp channels 2 and 3 are responsible.
A whistle (5000-6000 Hz) continuous with the pre-amp-General is responsible (audible on all channels) when more than half of the race. Thinking it was a problem of mass or earth, I tried the device in different rooms, with friends at local to repeat, nothing to plug ... anything done! Of course, I said that no flag is in the red ... In view of the headroom that this device, I can not imagine anyone foolish enough to paste his ears with a headset plugged into the HA4700 with red LED. Even my drummer (death metal) with DT770 plugs and the head does not grow back the gain when the club Starclassic recording! Apparently, the forums are full of users with this problem, which is not to reassure me.

I do not denigrate provided Beringher, quite the opposite (I have a B2Pro which is awesome for the price). The sound is fine for the use described above, rehearsal style, local radio ... target what you want to do with! To be objective, however, can not deny that this unit is responsible for a loss of sound quality, see a deterioration sometimes pronounced.

For the price and convenience, home, home studio, repeated, back-recording, radio station -> 10/10
For audio precise -> 3 / 10

Refine much the use you want to do! ...