I would characterize the sound of this product as clean and honest. The EQ's are good, (the channels' and the graphic) and provide many sweet settings. I can run my electric basses, electric/acoustic basses and upright bass through this mixer and get great awesome sound for all of them. Thus far I've only used this mixer in a studio setting; I run it's left and right signals into a 500 watt sony amplifier/reciever and run two 3-way speakers, (2", 4" and 15"), I use its effects send/Receive loop for a chorus pedal for the electric bass, as I preferr to use the on board FX for the reverb, (their are a few nice reverb settings on the board, the reverb on the board is nice too, it is just that I want chorus on the bass and reverb on the voices). Through my system this mixer is brutally honest, allowing me to refine the subtleties in tone and tembre of my voice. The first time I used it I was humbled by the tembre of my voice, however it only took a few minutes for my ear and vocal chords to clean up what I was hearing--The point is THE MIXER IS HONEST. I usually use ampeg and GK amplifiers for my bass, but I do not bother at home anymore b/c this mixer serves me fine--unless I have to revisit the relationship of my specific bass with one of my amplifiers I only use the mixer in my home-studio as it boasts all the sound I need for rehearsal, practice and learning. My amplifier/speaker system is make-shift because my wallet does not have more money. I would like to run some powerred speakers out of this board, as well as a sub. I am looking at Mackie and JBL for that purpose but I remain undecided at this point. a pair of Mackie SRM450 Mackie SRM350 JBL EON15 G2 JBL EON 15P and I donno about sub

I admit that my experience in mixing is limitted now to this product and a Yorkville 6 channel mixer, (I do not even know its product #, but the mackie is in an entirely different league). I researched mixers for several months before I committed to this one, (I've owned it for a year now that I am writing this). This mixer has 4 more channels than I see myself needing for the present time, but the FX loop on this product and the room to expand warrented my not buying an 8 channel mixer, and spending a bit extra on this product. As I play in a dixie band for a guy who uses a Mackie 8 channel mixer with some other mysterie FX box I notice a huge difference in the FX he has compared to my board; his reverb sounds raw and mechanical--very digitized; my reverb settings all sound smooth and warm. I got what I expected; I got what I wanted with this mixer.

The owner's manuel is GOLD. As I said above I had limmitted experience mixing, and although many features of the board are intuitive, (the rude solo light was not...) their were many subtleties suggested, (low end cuts, and the like to cut down vocal pops) in the manual that gave me stellar results I think faster than I would of had them had I just explored the product using my intuition. In short I think a person is foolish to think a mixer is easy to use well, (mixing is a skill--requiring a great deal of musicianship), this mixer is working well for me.

This is a nicely finished steel box with knobs, sliders and switches, all of them are clean and visable, the power chord is like one of a PC, and is included the rubber feet on the base ensure that it wont vibrate sympathetically with the low end frequencies I drive. I do not worry about this piece, I figure I will own it forever. As with all products that use those PC like power chords I wish they would have an appropriately sized cavity on the outside of the product for the chord to be stuffed in when in transit--but that is just me, the industry seems to disagree.

For a high quality mixer and this FX loop nothing touches the value of this product. I recommended it to my father as he was courting a mixer for a church and studio based application, and a week later he bought it, and tells me he's been pleased since

Ok--I put 10, but really I do not know--I haven't needed to call them.

I own it and I am not getting rid of it.

Active musician, bass and vocals

Jazz, contemporary christian

Mic Preamps are the best i've heard. Very solid.

Going from a 4 channel behringer it's night and day.

Hard to beat the Mackie name.

Can't beat the price you pay with the features and sound quality you get.

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