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11-04-2008, 05:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Supercheap mixer?
Hey all... the hotel that hires me and some of my company's clients has installed a "Bose Designed" system in the ceiling of the venue... the idea is to have a better visual presentation than the Bose L1-B1 that they now use. They've installed XLRs on the wall near the spot where we play. However, they expect each individual act to provide all the stuff needed to get the sound into the wall. The directive from the hotel sates that "the (xlr) input is for pre-out or non-amplified inputs only".
So I guess I find myself in need of a dirt cheap little mixer.... enough to handle the piano mic, the vocal mic, and the bass pickup I guess. I was looking at the little Behringer mixers, because it's only for this gig, and equipment tends to either walk off or disintegrate in the salt air environment.
Any suggestions are appreciated... be kind, I'm a luddite. 
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11-04-2008, 05:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia | | | I have a small Behringer Mixer, a supposed 8 track euro desk. And the thing works for me because I make noise music, it works because there is alot of noise! a lot of high hiss that is pretty much unavoidable. I would probably stear clear for your needs though |
11-04-2008, 05:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Yeah, that's what I've been hearing. Of course, my ears are old, and there's a lot of ambient noise in the venue (including a big fountain right behind us for most of the night)... so I thought I might be able to get away with it. |
11-04-2008, 06:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: on the bottom in sw ohio | | | Take a look at the Mackie ProFX8. Reasonably high quality for about $225. |
11-04-2008, 06:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Tokyo, Japan | | | Also, the Yamaha MG82CX is made for exactly this purpose. Even a little compressor on a couple of the channels. The little Yamahas are pretty quiet, I have a similar, slightly older model. About 150 bucks in the US... |
11-04-2008, 06:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Thank you, everyone. Those last two look pretty interesting! |
11-04-2008, 07:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Tokyo, Japan | | | I think you should think about whether you need the effects or not. The Mackie robgrow suggested and the Yamaha I mentioned have built in reverb. MD's links are to mixers that don't have that. If you need reverb/effects, that's something to consider, unless you want to carry a separate reverb with you as well. |
11-05-2008, 07:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Brisbane, Australia | | | I've had opportunities to compare Mackie, Behringer, Yamaha and Soundcraft. I'd avoid the Behringer; the little Yamahas are tough and sound good, Mackie are fine, but recent models don't seem as reliable as the early ones they built their reputation on; the Soundcrafts are probably the best sounding but I don't know how they compare in price at the moment.
I'd avoid the ones with FX. If you really need reverb or delay, get the tc-electronic M300 |
11-05-2008, 09:14 AM
|  | Student of Life Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, KY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MD  | I own this mixer, and use it in my upstairs office to mix signals from keyboards, microphones, and a CD player. It's a great little board, and sounds really good. Definitely recommended. |
11-05-2008, 09:18 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: South Jersey | | | I got a nice, small used Carvin mixer recently for my home PA system, and it runs the basses, the synths, and the drum machine. It's super quiet and cost me 90 bucks. Carvin makes a nice product.
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11-05-2008, 09:28 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Cambridge, MA | | | Try the Peavy PV6. I just purchased and installed one in my home practice studio. I am using it with an Alesis power amp and it is very, very quite. Even better, it is very inexpensive, I picked it up for $79 and my local Music Go Round. Musicians Friend and Guitar Center also sell them. |
11-11-2008, 01:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Alaska | | | cheap mixing boards
In my experience as a professional sound guy, don't buy the cheapest thing out there it will sound bad and the preamps built in the channels won't match impeadance very well, as well as having a lot of hiss. The cheaper boards also break pretty easily.
As far as small mixers go I'd stick with
Mackie
Yamaha
Allen and Heath
and Sound Craft
You also want to find a mixer with at least
Treble
Mid
and Bass tone controls on every channel.
I prefer to have Hi, HI mid,Lo MId, and Low
on each channel, or HI, Mid sweepable, and Low |
11-11-2008, 04:55 AM
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Originally Posted by MD | +1. Both very good bang for buck. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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