Phonic mixers???

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has anybody heard anything on these Phonic firewire mixers??? they seem interesting as you can record up to however many inputs the mixer has (16,24,etc) simultaneously by running it to your pc and each channel is output seperately also for even better editing/mixing capabilities. They look alot like behringer models and they arent expensive either. Hmmmmm......
 
I own a Phonic mixer (not a firewire, just a basic analog mixer). Phonic is Korean made and they basically re-engineered Behringer gear - given that Behringer re-enginneered Mackie there is a certain ironic justice.

Phonic gear is very cheaply made (thus the low cost). My Phonic was purchased to sub-mix drums at live gigs (mainly festivals, etc). I didn't care about a little noise and candidly, if it gets dust and rain on it I don't care cause it did not cost much.

However, for a critical application, such as a firewire for recording, I don't think I would want to depend on a Phonic.
 
mikeh said:
Phonic is Korean made and they basically re-engineered Behringer gear - given that Behringer re-enginneered Mackie there is a certain ironic justice.

Phonic gear is very cheaply made (thus the low cost).
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I am not sure about this. I can't really comment on whether Phonic re-engineers Behringer, but Behringer re-engineering Mackie is a very common misconception. It has the status of an urban myth.

Being "cheaply made" (and being sold at low prices), is not intrinsically indicative of poor quality. Low labour costs with good quality components can produce cheaper and better products than high labour costs and lesser quality components.
 
To be honest with you, I don't care if they re-engineer some play toy and make it a mixer, I absolutely love my Phonic Fire mixer. I have the Helix 18 and so far, I've recorded 7 simultaneous mic tracks to my PC and it has done wonders. It allows me to monitor the mix while recording, without any latency issues, and to seperate my mix, unlike other mixers. The preamps are fairly good and are actually pretty quiet compared to other cheap preamps. It's a really sturdy and the only problem I had with it was the setup of it, but that's mostly due to me not having enough knowledge of Cubase SX3.

In Short... I absolutely love my Phonic helix 18 firewire mixer, and wouldn't have spent the $450 any other way.

P.S. - The PC I record to only has a P4 1.8 Ghz cpu, and 256mb of RAM, yet it still records absoultely beautifully.
 
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