What mixer do you use? Would you recommend it?

This might get asked a lot, but I'm curious about what mixers you use, particularly for live performances. Anything you'd recommend? Thanks,

I use a yamaha n12....mainly because it's firewire, and the mic channels all have eq's and a compressor on each channel.....also has reverb(that actually sounds good, you can choose plate, room, or hall and set the duration as well). I love it, allows me to track into Logic while still being able to turn knobs and such. I recommend it, also the yamaha n8 might get the job done for you and save some $$.

Allen & Heath ZED R16
nice piece of gear, I love it for the analog sound and the fact that I can connect it with the Rme card via ADATs. No live usage tho, only for mixing my music at home

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that's cool

at home i use a Lem compact 210 s



it was a gift from a friend that don't use it anymore
great mixer
it's old but sounds good
it also got analog chorus and delay/echo effects

thx wrote:^
that's cool

at home i use a Lem compact 210 s



it was a gift from a friend that don't use it anymore
great mixer
it's old but sounds good
it also got analog chorus and delay/echo effects

That looks really nice.I bet the effects sound great.

Allen and Heath 14:4:2

I originally bought this to mix while going into my Teac Tascam 80-8.

[url]http://www.allen-heath.com/uk/products/pages/productdetails.aspx?
CatId=MixWizard3Series&ProductId=MixWizard31442[/url]

I would recommend it, except that I quickly run out of channels. I use hardware eq, compressors, filters, samplers, etc. So bussing things out and bring them back eats up a lot of channels.

Overall I think it is a great sounding board. They go for $1400 new, but I got mine for $700 from Craigslist.

If you can get by with the number of channels, I say go for it.

PS, having the limited amount of channels makes you get creative with grouping, which can be a good thing.

I 2 tracked this beat straight from the MPC to Pro Tools mixing it on the way in through the A&H.

dryad-66 wrote:

thx wrote:^
that's cool

at home i use a Lem compact 210 s



it was a gift from a friend that don't use it anymore
great mixer
it's old but sounds good
it also got analog chorus and delay/echo effects

That looks really nice.I bet the effects sound great.

they are not bad, but unfortunately it got no external fx send
also 2 of the internal amps are not working (250 watt per channel, 2 lefts and 2 rights, to send signal/power to passive speakers)
but i have 2 active monitors so i don't really need the amps
as a gift is a good mixer
i would like to fix the amps (only 2 left channel are working)
sorry for my poor english

cozy wrote:Allen and Heath 14:4:2

I originally bought this to mix while going into my Teac Tascam 80-8.

[url]http://www.allen-heath.com/uk/products/pages/productdetails.aspx?
CatId=MixWizard3Series&ProductId=MixWizard31442[/url]

I would recommend it, except that I quickly run out of channels. I use hardware eq, compressors, filters, samplers, etc. So bussing things out and bring them back eats up a lot of channels.

Overall I think it is a great sounding board. They go for $1400 new, but I got mine for $700 from Craigslist.

If you can get by with the number of channels, I say go for it.

PS, having the limited amount of channels makes you get creative with grouping, which can be a good thing.

I 2 tracked this beat straight from the MPC to Pro Tools mixing it on the way in through the A&H.

I have this board too. The thing is a beast.

for live i like a good no frills mackie - they sound good enough, usually have great, complex routing for the price point (skip the ones with fx), take a fair amount of abuse, and are generally cheap.

After some research I decided on the Yamaha MG166CX. 16 channels, 10 XLR inputs, the effects are supposed to be totally decent, and the nifty feature that won me over was the compression which'll be great for vocals. Price isn't too bad either, but we'll see how it turns out.