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RainyDave
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Joined: 19 Jan 2005
Location: Dublin, Ireland

Posted: Mon Apr 25 2005 14:31 Looking for a small mixer
I'm going to use my PC to record songs with my band this summer, and so I'll need a small mixer, with about 12-16 channels. We need to record singing, guitar, bass and drums. I was going to just rent/borrow a mixer along with the necessary microphones, but I'd like to buy a mixer if I can get a good one for under 500 euro. I've never bought a mixer before, so I'm not exactly sure what to get: there seems to be a bewildering array of mixers out there. I'm just looking for three-band EQ and slidey-faders; I'm not too pushed about phantom power but it'd be nice to have the option, and the effects I want to use are all on the computer already. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Dave

QBical
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Joined: 04 May 2003
Location: Utrecht , The Netherlands

Posted: Mon Apr 25 2005 18:38
I myself use a simple phonic 4-channel mixer, it cost me around 65 euro's, I know they have mixer with more channels all with relatively low prices. Check them out! Grtz Raymond
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Blaster
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Joined: 04 May 2003
Location: Netherlands/Germany

Posted: Mon Apr 25 2005 21:10
behringer have nice mixers: good value for money. But you might want to check something from mackie as that's a bit more quality.
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N0N
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Joined: 20 Oct 2003

Posted: Tue Apr 26 2005 03:34
I use the Compact4 Soundcraft mixer. pretty cheap too, great sound quality and comes with phantom power and insert fx (whatever there used for? hadware fx I think).

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Joined: 08 May 2003

Posted: Tue Apr 26 2005 07:28
my humble opinion/top: in the budget(analog)range: 1. spirit mixers very nice EQ, nice preamps. 2. mackie clean EQ, decent preamps 3. phonic 4. behringer 3 and 4 are mostly the same... if you want a very good sound and buy your mixer 2nd hand: I would advise you to go for a Tascam M1600 16channel(or24 ) very very nice EQ, very warm!

RainyDave
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Joined: 19 Jan 2005
Location: Dublin, Ireland

Posted: Wed Apr 27 2005 13:14
Thanks everyone for the advice. Those Soundcraft mixers are very nice but they're a little too expensive - is there much difference in quality from a Mackie? The one I was looking at had "S/PDIF out" but I still don't know exactly what that is... The Mackie 1402 VLZ is what I'm considering at the moment; has anyone had experience with one of those? Dave.

Inge
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Joined: 04 May 2003
Location: Nieuw Lekkerland @ Holland

Posted: Wed Apr 27 2005 13:20
I'm not sure about what s/pdif is for a mixer, but normally this implies a digital output (optical or coax), which is nice for exporting your sound to another device with a digital input with very low signal to noise levels. Ofcourse, Wikipedia knows it all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/PDIF Inge
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Posted: Wed May 18 2005 15:27
I recorded my band with my PC a couple of years ago, using a Behringer MX2004A that I bought new for around �200. It has decent pre-amps, three band EQ, slidey faders, phantom power and did the work. The "alt" bus proved practical to computer recording.
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BeatMax
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Joined: 04 May 2003
Location: Germany

Posted: Thu May 19 2005 03:25
Hi, it doesnt really belong to this topic but did you know that Behringer studied at my university of applied sciences in Duesseldorf? An ex professor told me that. BMX
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