[sdiy] [OT] great little mixer?? (was: Behringer MX1804)

[Henri Kovalainen]

On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 media.nai at rcn.com wrote:
> Since we are already off topic (unless this leads me to building my own
> mixer :)  I'm looking to buy a compact mixer with at least 10 channels,
> tape/line switches, mutes, solo, 4 aux sends, four buses, and a decent
> monitor section. Any suggestions??

The Allen & Heath WZ14:4:2 (http://www.allen-heath.co.uk/WZ1442.asp).

I bought a WZ16:2 years ago and I must say I love it. It's built like a
tank and it sounds great. The WZ14:4:2 is essentially the same but with 10
mono + 2 stereo channels and with 4 groups.

I'm also selling my Allen & Heath because the compact digital mixers are
becoming very affordable and in a modern mixing environment with digital
multiracks they are _very_ flexible. The only problem is that people
compare this desk to a Behringer or whatever of the same size and find the
secondhand price too high. So far it hasn't been much use writing them
email saying that they simply can't compare the two.

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