Be aware what you're buying: It's a rack mixer and all the connections (except headphones) are in the back. You need a rack, a power distribution strip, a connector patchbay and a lot of patch cords to set up everything.
I use it in a Millenium 6U rack along with an FBQ2496 (using inserts on first two channels), a Millenium PB16 patchbay and a t.racks power strip and the setup is wonderfully clean and professional.
Sound is simply perfect, no inherent hiss or noise.
What I don't like about the mixer:
- Inflexible phantom power. It's either on or off on all channels. You can't select which channels get phantom power.
- No ground lift or any separator on outputs. I had to add a HD400 on the output to break a nasty ground loop when using this mixer.
- No clear description what an effect is, just numbers. I know it's the case with all Behringer mixers that have a two-digit display and if you know your way around them, you don't need anything else, but even a single line character display would go a long way towards making it more user-friendly
- No mute buttons on channels.
- No direct USB.
- No compressor on any input.
- No low cut filters on any input.
Behringer should make a third revision of this mixer and add these:
- Phantom power selection per channel.
- Compressors, at least on first four channels.
- LCF on the same channels..
- Mute button on all input channels.
- Foot switch connector.
- USB out/in, I'd love a multichannel USB out for recording.
I'd definitely buy one at a 50% higher price.
