Drawmer CMC2

I love my Drawmer CMC2. It's quiet, turning the unit on and off doesn't cause any monitor noise, speaker switching is silent and the phase reversal and mono switches are great tools for helping troubleshoot problem mixes.

My only issue was that ordering mine from Thomann for use in the UK, the unit was sent with a Euro plug PSU, and a totally useless 2-pin to 3-pin plug converter that physically couldn't fit on the PSU. The Drawmer PSUs for these originally used to come with slot-in pins for a number of different countries, but I found out from Drawmer that they had stopped doing this as it was expensive and wasteful. So Thomann only have the Euro 2-pin adapter pins in their stock. The very nice Drawmer people sent me a UK set of power pins for my PSU free of charge, but Thomann really should add a warning for UK customers. So whilst I have every respect for the CMC2 itself, if you are in the UK, I'd strongly recommend buying it from a UK based store.

Used in my studio now for a month or 2 and all I can say is this is a very nice sounding and practical monitor controller. The features are dare I say, perfect, for a music studio.
The build and price are very good, although the jack sockets on the back are a tad close together, but hey..
Ive tried a few controllers over the years, including very expensive stuff like Crane Song and very low cost Mackie stuff.. The CS was great but was a faff setting up via USB and not worth all that money, many other low cost controllers can me a liability to a professional studio.. This Drawmer is EXCELLENT and perfect for a general music making studio environment, with the Mono, Sum & Dif, Phase, Mute and switching between monitors. I have a little mono speaker connected to the Sub so you can connect 3 sets of speakers, 2 stereo and one mono.
Good work Drawmer, spot on sound, clear, full range, uncolored. Its a keeper.

The CMC2 is exactly right for my modest, one room, home studio set up.

This little unit has everything I actually need;

- Two main inputs and an additional AUX input with input gain control.
- Two stereo main outputs, a mono (sub) out and a headphone output
with independent level control.
- A very smooth and accurate master volume knob.
- Mute, Dim, Mono and phase reverse switches.
- LED indicators for every function.

More importantly it has nothing I don't really need; no talk-back, no 5.1/7.1 functionality, no multiple headphone outputs and no convertors.

Built like the proverbial tank, my Neumann KH120A's love it, my AKG K612 PRO's love it.

All in all this is a big step up from my (passive) Mackie Big Knob monitor controller at a very competitive price.

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I have two pairs of monitors: Very easy to switch between them with this device, all the buttons are handy and easy to learn where they are - after one day You must not look at the device to use the buttons and knobs.
Phase change, dim, mono, the two input and the aux input is great, all I need is there. It's sound is open and clean, actually much more open than my previous controller. sub connector is a great feature too.
My mix is simply better with this device.
Headphone out also good, but my Lake People head amp is a bit better
Setup: UAD Apollo 16 MKII dynaudio bm15a, EMU PM5 with KRK Rokit 10S subwoofer .

I absolutely missed this