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Double Bass Supercheap mixer?

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Marcus Johnson

Nov 28, 2001
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#1
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. :D
 
#2
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
 
#8
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.
 
#9
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
 
#13
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
 
#14

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