Feature:
It is very good to have some onboard effects like reverb, delay, echo, pitch shift, etc. But thank for the awful mic pres,it becomes useless. If the quality of its mic pres is going to be improved, it would be the best mixer in this price range. You will benefit on the effects, but surely not the sound quality. It is really a pity to hear your recording.

Quality:
I choose 1 - THE WORST. You know, the mic pres are noisy. 1st BAD point. You have great latency in monitoring. 2nd BAD point. These two points are enough to say the mixer are bad. Try to think that you can plug the mixer to the computer via USB, but providing us high latency with monitoring. How can we record? How can we mix? Good idea to add a USB host to the mixer but bad idea to have ASIO incompatible. 10 ms is too much for instrument players. Then how about 46 ms? What a pity!

Value:
If you buy the mixer, you are simply like the man who throw your money to the sea. You can't get anything from the mixer. Somebody may think that I expect too much from the mixer. But I need to tell you the truth. In this year when I bought it from ITConcept in Hong Kong, my recordings are worse than those I record via my Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi platinum. The Creative's is aim at CONSUMER market but the Alesis' is aim at BEGINNER/AMATEUR studio level. Same price, different targets, and also different quality. The Creative's is far more better than Alesis' who is named as "STUDIO PRODUCTS". That's really horrible

Desirability:
If you read my comment carefully, you should know what the answer is. Surely not. I've got a nightmare in this stuff. Finally, I sold it at a reasonable price to another amateur. He accepts the quality from it. However, not me. I hope he could write another review on it. After I bought the Alesis Multimix 8USB, I really lost the confident to the manufacturer. Sorry to say that. I think Alesis should pay more effort on improving the quality of mic pre, also the main out. If you keep on doing this - to release such a low quality of products, then I simply avoid to buy your products, even you said you have greatly improve it. I am looking forward to see any improvement in Alesis' Product. I hope so.

Sound:
HISS and POPS everywhere on your recording! If you are using only a DYNAMIC MIC like Shure SM58 and turn the volume (not the gain), you simply hear noises. I've try to unplug the mic to see whether the environment noise is great or not. However, when I turn on the Gain to 12 o'clock position (about half of the gain), it is very clear to hear NOISE!! Do you think you can record clear sound with this mixer? Surely not!! I can't see any good features in its sound quality. Maybe the best word to describe its sound - BAD!! Noise, Hiss are your sound recorded. No matter how great your vocals' voice are, no matter how stunning your instruments skill are, you only get a poor voice/sound. It would be a waste to record beautiful sound with this unpleasant mixer. Beside the bad mic pres, the output from computer (means the 2TK) are also worst with noise. What a pity! I use SONY MDR-7506 for monitoring, noise covers my mix. How can I do accurate monitoring? After hearing my comment on this mixer, will you like it? For me, I don't!

Ease of Use:
Simply turn on the power, turn on the phantom power, plug the USB cable to your computer, connect the mic to the mixer, switch on the 2TK to Ctrl Rm, increase the volume of the channel, ctrl rm and also the mix, plug your headphone to the mixer, you will hear what you recorded, and the output from the computer. It is really easy to use. No driver is needed. But ASIO incompatible with 46.xxx ms latency. You still need to choose ASIO Full duplex VIRTUAL ASIO driver to do your monitoring work. If you are a keyboardist to play the instruments and use it for real-time monitor, I don't know how can you play your instruments correctly, with correct timing. Surely not. Great Latency, isn't it?

Support:
I bought it in Hong Kong. The support is awful. The staff "IS" useless and the dealer only has the duty to sell the mixer, but NOT responsible to provide any support to me. I've asked them to have the driver which is compatible to ASIO. They asked me why you need it, and told me that I can still use it to do recording and real-time monitoring in such a great latency. Finally, he said he feel sorry as I have no experience. Second, they don't know how to use Cubase LE to do separate recording (record the vocal with the playback of my MMO). The reason is they only know how to use Audacity. I've no experience on Cubase LE. But the staff said that he is the professional arranger, composer, vocal teacher and vocalist. How come a man only know how to use Audacity and Band-in-a-box can become a pro arranger? Do you think he is really a teacher, or he just simply tells lie? I need to blacklist the shop in Hong Kong. I hope the new dealer could change the reseller shop manager. It's really HORRIBLE to say these things. I solve every questions by myself. I would like to ask, what is the usage of the reseller? No, it is only garbage, a rubbish!! How come he can still work in there without firing? Why there is no zero rating, I should give the rate worse than the worst!

Overall:
Overall it is really BAD and HORRIBLE. I know the price is really low (not really, as a beginner, this may be too much for them). You still need to provide CLEAR and ACCEPTABLE sound. First, you really need to isolate the noise from mic pre. No matter how "INEXPENSIVE" your item is, you still need to do this. I have no money to buy a noise gate. Or any noise reduction plug-ins. I don't use any noise reduction plug-ins as it will further lower the quality of the sound. Don't tease the beginner like me. I am not a person who is unable to distinguish noise sound. I still hear a lot of noise from my mix. Every person who buy the mixer will probably want decent sound. But sorry about that, Alesis Multimix 8USB will give only low quality of sound. You can't listen your mix CLEARLY. Monitor your mix with HEAVY noise. How can we mix it? How can we send our demo to the others? Do you want every users of this item become the target that everyone laugh at their mix? I think Alesis is playing tricks on every beginners. Harsh to say that but also honest to say that. Can't believe me? Go and buy one. Try this horrible garbage, you finally agree with me.

• User: a customer from yahoo.com.hk
• Submitted: 8/16/2008
• Style of Music: Rock, Metal, Hip Hop, R&B, Canto-pop
• Location: Hong Kong, China

Feature:
They all work perfect. even though im not using cubase. I give advice to people who are getting this. you get what you par for.

Quality:
its made perfect. should be used for professionals.

Value:
best in the buisness

Desirability:
i wanted it along time ago. I got it and its just what i wanted.

Sound:
No need to improve. The sound quality is outstanding!

Ease of Use:
take it out of the box. plug the power supply and hook usb. simple

Support:
well i trust Zzounds. they always provide you great instruments. mine lasted 2 years, and just ordered another. thanks Zzounds.

Overall:
All i can say is THE BEST

• User: a customer from yahoo.com
• Submitted: 4/13/2008
• Style of Music: Rap
• Location: Tennessee

Feature:
great features if the worked- on longevity.

Quality:
Like I said, it quit giving good performance about 6 months in.

Value:
Cheap but you get what you pay for.

Desirability:
Very appealing marketing, but not good in practice

Sound:
Although It originally worked fine I have had it now 7 months and it crackles and pops when it warms up. If you're using Cubase LE or Sequel( both great apps by Steinburg) the mixer must be turned off and rebooted to hear playback through the on board soundcard, a real pain and time consuming.

Ease of Use:
was great when new, with Garage band- Cubase is more difficult anyway so it might be hard to tell.

Support:
so far so good.

Overall:
I am trying to sell it now to get a different- firewire type interface/mixer

• User: a customer from yahoo.com
• Submitted: 2/14/2008
• Style of Music: Rock, singer songwriter
• Location: Flowery Branch, Georgia

Feature:
This unit is very good for a quick setup, it has more than enough features for the size. The FX is great 100 to choose from great!. Wish it had a better way to power it, had to replace the power supply twice in a year and a half. I have about a 1000 hours on the unit itself. power supplies need to be a little beefier.

Quality:
With care the the Alesis multimix will last a long time like i said my unit is a 1 1/2 years old and still gig'in nobs could be better, but for the price you can't beat it.

Value:
Very well priced for the features that it has. I compared it to other models like berringer with same features the Alesis price is the best going.

Desirability:
Sex Appeal ?? Don't know about that, but it a good design slick looking, low profile. Like the look of it. as long as the unit works there worth there weight in gold.

Sound:
The sound of this mixer is very good, the sound depends on the mic you feed into it. I'm useing a mxl v6 Sounds very good and 3 shureSM48 very good also also I used a few low end mic's and there you get what you paid for as far as recording very good mixer, live can be demanding but the mixer can carry its weight though a gig. The nobs on the unit are a little weak in quality but I understand that we need to sacrifice that for board quality.

Ease of Use:
Its right there, at your finger tips. EQ fantastic, FX right there GREAT, as far as ease of use it couldn't be simpler. if your a newbie read the Manuel. Like with everything plug everything in before you POWER ON!!!! I'v used this product on a windows based machine XP (sucked) Vista (sucked) usb problems CRASHES almost every time The problem is WINDOWS not the Alesis. The unit runs without a flaw on a mac.

Support:
My experience with Alesis was very good, my only problem was with the power supplies the first one stopped working after 300 hours of service and cost me $32.00 to replace though Alesis the second one after 150 hours and Alesis replaced it free. Support was very good!

Overall:
I will try other alesis mixers as long as the quality is there. I have Yamaha mixers but not for the road. To be honest I did not expect the Alesis to hold up as long as it did and I'm very satisfied with it performance and if lost or stolen I will replace it with the same.

• User: a customer from mac.com
• Submitted: 2/11/2008
• Style of Music: Alternative
• Location: Lancaster, PA. U.S.A.,

Feature:
.................. if you turn up the the aux to hear your effects "EFFECTIVELY" it will clip out of control.

Quality:
Clips ALOT, HISSES and HUMS... trash.

Value:
Personally this thing is worth as much as a gun range target.

Desirability:
I want to break it, and i will when my M-audio mobile pre gets here.

Sound:
No matter what this thing will generate hisses and hums. I have never gotten one clean recording off of THIS mixer. One good thing is i have become a noise reduction guru in sonar.

Ease of Use:
Plug and play for me, horrible sound though. Silly me, tried to use used a usb mixer for... computer mixing.

Support:
Called in for help, and they basically told me to not use the usb. I will never call alesis again.

Overall:
I will destroty this product, i have even went as far as to ground this thing to eliminate SOME hiss. I did get less hiss but a little extra hum. This thing is not even good for entry level, leave it alone.

• User: a customer from yahoo.com
• Submitted: 12/10/2007
• Style of Music: Rap, Techno, Pop.
• Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Feature:
Has the features...but hasnt got the strength to use them...

Quality:
solid...not easy to break...but then again, id rather break than buy another!! lol

Value:
u do get wat u pay for..i mean its a "ALL IN ONE" mixer usb, they cant spend at least 50 on one pre-amp, they spent less than that for EVERYTHING in ONE..

Desirability:
Not anymore I dont...

Sound:
The pre-amps on this are really bad..somethin that isnt evan entry level with some mic's, works OK with some tho...but isnt professional, my advice...save up...

Ease of Use:
easy to use...but I think that effort goes to waste at times....

Support:
never needed it.

Overall:
its OK...nothin special...i think for a begginner until he learns hw to mix its ok to learn...nothing special about this tho...its a waste of money really if ur advanced.

• Submitted: 11/13/2007
• Style of Music: all
• Location: UK

Feature:
I gave this a 5 because the Chorus and Flanging effects don't work! I spoke with their tech support and they even acknowledged those effects are not operational. No plan for a fix either.

Quality:
Definitely above what you would expect for this price.

Value:
If you only need to record a single stereo channel at a time, this is the way to go. It works perfectly with my recording software and Pod XT Live.

Sound:
Sound Quality is amazing at this price.

Ease of Use:
Perfect!

Support:
Well, I was happy that they acknowledged the missing effects, but dissapointed that they offered no fix. I would think a FLASH upgrade could fix this.

• Submitted: 10/3/2007

Feature:
This is a flexable unit, the USB alows for mobile recording with my sound recording impared laptop, I am using it for live performance, and as a phantom power/eq/preamp/effect prior to my main Daw interface for studio recording I do not use the USB

Quality:
I am replaceing a non USB enabled 6 chanel alesis mixer I am confident this one will perform with the same high quality

Value:
I got this thing for $145 at guitar center on sale. a pcmcia sound card for my laptop would have cost more than that

Desirability:
the price was prety sexy

Sound:
Only tested the capability to record and it records, quality hasn't been inspected but I will be using recording for Voice only

Ease of Use:
Total plug and play with Sonar4 on my laptop I did not install any of the LE software that came wit hit

Support:
The best support is support that you don't need because the product is easy to set up and the manuals are easy to use.

Overall:
I like this mixer. it's versability is huge. great front end to my main recording system, great for remote recording of my podcast, great front end for live internet streaming of shows in second life, small easy to use for my live coffeeshop performances.

• User: a customer from gmail.com
• Submitted: 11/2/2006
• Style of Music: singer songwriter
• Location: Boise ID USA

Sound:
The only time my music/computer system has noise problems is when I use my Alesis USB8 Multimix with the Cubase LE software that it came with. It's been a real bummer.

• Submitted: 9/18/2006

Feature:
All features are very nicely design.

Quality:
They all easily break down for no reasons. I had 3 units exchanged in the past, all 3 broke with different problems. Big quality issue here.

Value:
With a quality like this, it is over priced.

Sound:
With a $150.00 microphones connected, this unit generated humming echo and noise when the gain set too high.

Ease of Use:
Very easy to use and set up.

Support:
What to say? You called, they gave you a RA number, you sent the unit back to fix... Standard support.

Overall:
I will not get this one again if it breaks one more time.

• User: a customer from aol.com
• Submitted: 8/15/2006
• Location: Minnesota

Feature:
Everything worked that came with it, including the CuBase software. I use Multitrack Studio for most of my recording. The mixer integrated seemlessly with all the computer tools I use.

Quality:
This mixer gets toted around with my laptop. It is rugged and withstands the normal and not-so normal use very well. I do prefer slide faders over knobs though.

Value:
You will not find another mixer with the capabilities this one has for the money. As one of the other reviews said, "It makes an excellent sound card also".

Desirability:
My "I Want It" had nothing to do with how it looked. I went on the specs and compared it to others for what I needed. This one out performed all others for the money based on the specs sheets. I am not disappointed.

Sound:
I only give it a 9 because there is a slight hum in the audio when recording. It is not in the actual recording after the track is laid down. I used it at a family recital. While wearing headphone, when the doors would close or people would talk, you would have to look around to see if it was real. Even using average mics the quality was excellent.

Ease of Use:
I took me a couple of trial and error settings to get the USB configured correctly. After that, it is an easy setup each time I connect it to my PC. Just follow the instructions. They work.

Support:
I initially had a problem with tech replying. After I resent my request, they were very helpful in resolving my problems I had a problem getting the prerecorded mix and the current session going to the headphones. They gave me instructions on how to make that work.

Overall:
I will eventually replace this unit but only because I would like multitrack capabilities and more channels. This was an entry level product I wanted to try to see if it was real.

• User: a customer from gmail.com
• Submitted: 3/22/2006
• Style of Music: Country, Gospel
• Location: Clinton NC USA