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I am a commercial sound system engineer and professional radio and mobile DJ and have designed audio equipment in the past. I own many different Behringer small format mixers and signal processors (including compressors, crossovers, eqs and exciters) which I bought over the years going back to the late 90s. I still have and use most of these products, they are rugged, reliable, have excellent specs and work flawlessly. It amazes me how Behringer consistently offers such top notch products with so much bang for the buck. I believe they are unique in their market segment. Overall, my early opinion of the new SPL3220 is equally favorable. I ran it through it's paces with commercially recorded music like that I would play on the air or at a gig and found that with it's dual band design it does a commendable job of taming dynamic volume swings and holding average program levels without the artifacts typical of the many single band processors available. It's packed full of useful features despite it's small size and price like the leveller, limiter, full metering, hard bypass, music or voice settings, and unbalanced or balanced XLR combo inputs/ outputs. Most of all, it's logically laid out and easy to operate despite it's complexity of functions. It should be invaluable for uses like mine or in PA and background music systems, production studios or for small broadcasters on a budget. My only reservations or nit picks concern the front panel design and lack of good documentation (owner's manual). The front face has an attractive hinged smoked plastic cover which may be prone to breakage by tampering, heavy use or impact. It also obscures the controls and meter illumination to a great extent. I prefer the more typical Behringer extruded aluminum open front face design. I think the unit should also come with a more comprehensive User's Manual as has been traditional for the company. This is a complex piece of equipment (albeit deceptively simple in control layout) which deserves more detailed background and useage information especially for those unfamiliar with compressors / limiters / levellers. I myself had to look at the block diagram on the specification sheet which i found on their website (under downloads for the unit) to understand the actual functions of the "Meter" and "Program" switches and "Leveller" knob. The "Meter" switch acts as a processor in/ out selector (it's actually a bypass), the "Program" switch selects the crossover frequency between the two processor bands (favoring either voice or music uses), and the "Leveller" knob increases the recovery time of the compressor effectively keeping the average program level consistent over a longer period of time. For the price and features of the SPL3220 though, you won't find a better product out there, that's what's so great about Behringer. I heartily recommend it.

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It is a wonderful processor allows a lot of punch and great presence but I wish it had gating and more user adjustable controls.

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If you're looking for analog audio processing, it would be wise to completely pass on this product. Normally I really like Behringer gear, but not this piece. If you're looking for analog audio compression, limiting, or AGC (Automatic Gain Control), check into some of the older gear that really works, like the Aphex 320A Compellor, Aphex 720 Dominator II, Symetrix 422, or any of the DBX compressors. I had found that the Eurocom SPL3220 almost did nothing to the signal. It's too bad, as Behringer could have really come up with a box that was a powerful tool, unfortunately, they went in the opposite direction.

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