I rarely buy gear , so rare that nowdays i write the companies like Studiomaster ,Xvive ,and whoever before i buy something .So the people at Studiomaster after answering my query said that i can review this piece of gear . I bought it myself and here's what i think about it .
I am not audio engineer so i really can not speak all in dB and Hertz but i can give honest view and ear on the machine , i did go to SAE for a few months but i never graduated so i know nothing ...
I would like to test the compressors with premixed inputs and various sources as there are compressors on each of 6 channels ,they really are a attractive feature .Now to me they do sound more like sound leveler than really squeezing anything compressors , i really don't hear much more then just more gain which doesn't mean there is none , it's probably very useful in real live band situations and maybe vocals but apparently not with my DIY Gear Outputs .
When it comes to the EQ's they are very vanilla too , they are just 3 band EQ's without sweep and gain controls separate which i loved with my old Fostex DMT8 , so for the price you can't ask for more . External EQ is needed if you want real thump or squeak but they do the job nicely for commoners .
I still like the mixer .Actually it's layout is just what i would like or imagine !
For the price it has mute on each channel which is important for live sessions , and the submix* is more than welcome for no input mixing as a 3rd aux channel , yes there are 2 x aux channels which is important if you wanna use external pedals and stuff and more important if you wanna record some no input mixing experimental mambo jambo . The onboard effects have dedicated pot per channel next to the aux 1 and aux 2 and sound beautiful ,i will only say that and it's nice that there is a proper effects processor included for the price , i can imagine it being very useful feature in Live Events situations , like amateur Theater or Poetry reading.
with the compressors and the additional gain preamps on the top of the mixer this thing has a lot of gain at least for me using synthesizer levels i never push the preamps at all .
Sadly there is no separate return channels for the 2 auxiliary outputs but a single stereo return and whatever that is is not talking well with my Polymoog Resonators which tells me i might need to adapt a cable for normal use . (There really is a User Manual:)
Lastly there is an mp3 player there , i wish it was just some picture of Phil Collins, i could live with that , you can just ignore the whole mp3 module , unless you are at a live event like a gallery or some book publishing event or everywhere else where you'd need music before and after some strange lady reads her semi erotic poem with a big white hat with purple ribbon
You have Group 1+2 as a linked stereo bus (Group 1 = L, Group 2 = R)
Each channel has a routing switch that sends signal to both groups at once
Then you get fader control over Group 1/2 output level ,So functionally, it’s less like:
“true independent subgroup routing” and more like: “alternate stereo mix bus with per-channel assign”
But i can imagine those two outputs being properly abused in no mixing input session .You can also have alternate mix going thru a processor and then feeding it back to another channel or recorder , and then you can give to two people two variants of the recording..
There is proper RCA record output and i am yet to test it with Xvive portable recorder ,the Record output has it's own proper Attenuator or Gain potentiometer so it should be useful when feeding these cheap portables like H1n or XV1R ,or anything semi professional really .
Finally i would like to apologize for the empty table as i just sold all the gear i built ,and as for audio samples of the EQ's and Compressor's response ...it would all sound the same on your phone.
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