Mixer recommendations - Mackie, Behringer, . . . what?

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Chris Tondreau said:
There is a lot of rhetoric about Behringer stealing others' designs. As I understand it, with respect to mixers in particular, Mackie tried to sue Behringer because they felt that a certain mixer essentially stole their design. (one can't help wondering if the two mixers sounded the same, if Mackie was so convinced that their design was stolen....) An expert was called in, and reported that the Behringer mixer used a different circuitry design altogether, and the case was thrown out. Behringer responded with counter-litigation.
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Well if they look the same but have completely different components inside then they must be just as good :rolleyes:

That's the whole problem. They make their stuff look like some other well known product then fill it with crap components so people will think they are getting the same product just with lower cost.
 
Ive had a Behringer MX602 since i was in 6th grade, and it was working great until just recently. I was not even using it, but in the same room and it caught on fire. I unpugged it fast and rushed it outside and blew on it until it was all better. Somehow it still works, but if i turn the mains up past halfway i get a real unpleasant humming sound.

I dont have hardly any cash so of couse my options are very limited, but I am looking to buy the 20 channel version of it. I was really happy with everything about it until the incident, but i would reccomend it to anyone who needs to get one on a budget.
 
Eight pre's, and more in's and out's than you'll know what to do with. Also a dual function that allows 24 inputs.
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That should read 16 nice sounding pre's. Not eight. I just caught that.

Question: Before Mackie came on the scene in the mid to late eighties or early nineties, what were some of the more popular mixers?

I thought for semi-pro to entry-level pro use that TASCAM pretty well had the market cornered. Is that true? Anyone know anything about that?
 
A friend of mine runs a proaudio repair centre, and he has to tell almost all clients that come with the behringer mixers sad news. It seems that these boards consist of one big print with everything soldered to it. Which means that even a little defect potmeter will cost you more on research and repair that the console is worth. Not sure if this is the technical correct explaination, but bottomline is: The refuse to even accept behringer consoles for repair cause of there technical design.

Not judging the quality (good price/quality ratio, but an old oldsmobile of $100 has also a good price/quality and I wouldn't be driving that one on the highway), just telling some 'facts'


For a music school I bought this very low expensive little pa system, $500 dollar for a active yamaha mixerblock, 2 speakers, 2 behringer mics and all cables/statives. Works great for them.
 
apostle said:
What about Peavey?
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I've never been too impressed with Peavey stuff.

Sennheiser- Before Mackie they were Tapco. In general though the choices then were Tascam, Fostex, Yamaha, Peavey. Not that any of them were amazing but those were the cheapies. That is getting a little before my time, I started messing around in jr high in the early 80's.
 
I've never been too impressed with Peavey stuff.
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Me either. But their guitar amps have gotten better since the '80's.

Sennheiser- Before Mackie they were Tapco. In general though the choices then were Tascam, Fostex, Yamaha, Peavey. Not that any of them were amazing but those were the cheapies. That is getting a little before my time, I started messing around in jr high in the early 80's.
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Thanks.

The music store I used to go to back then had mostly TASCAM. All the way up to the M-600 and M-700.
 
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