Simple Audio mixer wanted! - Any advice?

[James Page]

Hi
i have a Mac and want a simple Audio mixer to go with my M-Audio AV40 speakers.

Outputs on Mac USB3, thunderbolt, optical digital audio output/analog line out mini-jack
Inputs on Speakers: L+R RCA line in, and 1/4" TRS inputs.

Not looking for anything fancy, just something i can connect two speakers and a microphone to, with some basic EQ and levels adjustment.
Look forward to hearing from you!

 

[M Carter]

Kinda depends - if the mics will be recording audio you'll use in projects, you'd likely want decent preamps, maybe something in the Mackie Onyx family.

If it's just for routing audio (my setup is Event powered 8's, and I need to route my Mac's internal sound, my protools interface outs, and Matrox MX02 outs to the speakers at various times), I just use a cheap Behringer mixer which works fine and doesn't take much space, and also works well as a headphone amp/volume control. But nothing going through there gets recorded, it's strictly for monitoring; I'll sometimes use the mic inputs to test a wireless or something, and use it for scratch voiceovers. If I'm recording something that'll end up in an edit, it's an Apogee pre/converter box into a ProTools interface, which can feed protools, FCP, my Mac's sound input, etc. - and I can monitor through the Behringer or headphones.

 

[Marc Wielage]

What I see used very often in editing suites is one of the smaller Mackie analog mixers, which sits off to the side and allows editors to drop in different channels to preview music, effects, and dialogue along with their current cut:

They have a whole bunch, but I'd get one with at least 4 or 5 inputs:

http://www.mackie.com/products/vlz4-series-compact-mixers/

The one above is only about $200. I'd put Mackie much higher on the evolutionary scale than Behringer.

 

[Eric Santiago]

I have the Behringer Xenyx 1202 not sure if its still in production.

It has 4 channel strips and 8 more shared (pairs).

Used it with my mBOX/Pro Tools as well as everything else.

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