Behringer Mixer

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Hey ya'll,
I'm doing a recording at home the december with a Tascam 424 MKII. Now, I don't have a mixer yet, tho realize, that if i'm going to record I need one, hands down. So...i've been looking at a Behringer MX1602A Eurorack. Can anyone tell me some stuff about it? If anyone has experiance using it, i'd love to hear how it's performed. Also, if you think I need to know anything else about this recording(i've also got an SM57, multi-effects unit, dual band compresser), let me know. Thanks ya'll...
 
Hi --- I'm not a professional, but I've done a lot of "home" recording over the years. I have the Behringer MX802, which is similar to the one you mentioned (only smaller, and missing a couple of features). First, the Behringers all have excellent mic pre-amps, which is very important. I think the 1602 (1604 ?) has enough mic pre-amps for the number of microphones you will run at any one time. Are you recording a drum set? a full band? If you are just recording one track or two tracks at a time, things are much easier and you may not even need the Behringer. But if you are recording on all four tracks of the Tascam at once, then the Behringer will prove very useful. But it sounds like you'll also need more microphones.

I'd say in general that the Behringer mixers are of very high quality --- very quiet, with plenty of headroom (more than enough for recording to a cassette four track). Make sure you really need it for what you want to do, though. I think a good microphone or two add much more quality to a recording than the mixer. The 424's mixer is cheap --- but if all you are doing is recording using an SM57 --- the 424's mixer is probably adequate.
 
I have a E.R. 2642 and use it quite frquently with a 424. My expierence with the 424's built in mixer is not very positive. But when it is connected to the 2642 the 424 comes alive. Larger controls , lots of I.+ O., This makes it much easier to control the level going to the tracks. Get it and play with it and the 424. I think you will love it.
 
Just a question. When I hear about people mixing on a stand alone mixer and recording on a four track is anybody actually by-passing the recorders mixer. I use a makie 1202 and go into an old yamaha mt-4, but I still use the yamaha's mixer, I just bypass its eq section (which is a 5 band equalizer). But I have no capability to bypass the actual onboard mixer. I still get better reults this way but I would love direct access to the recorder.

Peace, Jim
 
Jim M. --- You're right --- most of the cassette four tracks don't really "bypass" the mixer (and I would suspect the Tascam under discussion above wouldn't bypass the mixer either). I have a Fostex DMT-8vl (digital recorder) that does allow you to bypass the mixer, but most (or all) cassette machines won't do this.

That's partly why I think the microphone is more important when using cassette than an external mixer.
 
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okay im new to a mixer and i got one but idk whats the best recording out of it got inserts as aux send, return main mix, main mix inserts and ctrl room and phones i dont know whats the best to plug in i have behringer 1602a
 
Wow, there's been a lot of old thread bumping recently, but I think this one beats them all...

Almost 10 years old! Woooow, this is like ancient history. I was 7 the last time this was active :)
 
At that time I had only been playing drums for 4-5 months...hell, I was still with my first teacher at that time. And I was in middle school. Yikes.
 
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