More Love to Yamaha DXR Speakers

I agree totally on the PA mixers, I love Yamaha mixers. They are the most intelligent with the mixer layout, have excellent functions for live use and the sound quality even of the cheaper budget mixers is top notch. Especially the mixers feel like you know that the developer had a plan to make them more useful… which I cannot say for many companies hehe

I can see that. As long as you (and your audience) are happy with what you are bringing to the party, I’d say you’ve made the right choice.

There is basically three levels in my opinion: not good enough, good enough and great.

Some of the lower brands will have people go “sound is not too great”. There is a big middle bit where people won’t comment on the sound quality eiter way, good nor bad. And finally there is the stuff that has people actively comment on how good things sound. Obviously the latter is usually reserved for the high end gear with matching price tags and, imho, always in connection with someone with enough knowledge/experience to set them up and tune them properly.

In the middle category, there is loads of brands which all have their own pro’s and cons, their own particular sound. But since your are not doing an A/B comparison on the dancefloor, if it sounds good, well … it sounds good 😛 .

Hope you have a long time to enjoy the EV’s.

Greetinx.

I am lost. You only need one stereo channel on the mixer for you controller main out. What do you need the eqs on the mixer for for that stereo channel? Channel eq on a mixer is neither made for nor suitable for room eq-ing. And for effect eq-ing you use your controllers eq.

The yamaha mic preamps beat the behringers by a mile imho, so it would be an easy choice for me. I actually have the MG166CX USB for live sound applications.

Plug in your 4 mics, the controller master out on (preferably) balanced inputs on channel 7/8. Leave channel EQ on 7/8 neutral. Set levels on the mixer for 0dB and play your heart out.

Greetinx.

Hi,

Yeah, I (used to) do bands of up to 5 people including the odd drum kit that needs mics (4 to 7 depending) and the 24-channel was too big. So I ended up with this one. Love it for the price and size.

I have added a Mackie DL1608 (16 in – 6 aux – 2 master) iPad live mixer to my arsenal. Way more compact. True 16 mic channels and digital. There is a smaller 806 model too (8 in – 4 aux – 2 master). The good thing it has 31-band graphic EQ on ALL outputs (so including the AUX), which makes it great for room EQ.

When using a compact sound board to EQ a room, pretty much the only thing you CAN do (or SHOULD do really) is take away something if the room boost a frequency too much. If you are missing MIDs, then boosting mids equals lowering bass/highs (for arguments sake anyway).

In 90% of the time the low or high will be the problem area. In the few cases where you need more mid, just tune both lows and mid down a bit and the effect would be the same as raising a mid eq if you’d have one.

Having said that, I don’t really bother in most venues anymore. It’s either a small deviation, in which case the audience probably won’t notice all your extra work or it’s a really big deviation, which you can’t fix with a 3-band non-parametric EQ.

Obviously us DJs use the controller EQ for effect purposes, but there is noone that says you can’t set your mid EQs to +2 dB on all channels as neutral during a gig. Put a piece of white stage tape near the knob with a small arrow marking neutral so you don’t forget.

Now when you decide to use mid-EQ for effect, you do it as you always would, when you are done you don’t return to 12 o’clock neutral but +2dB neutral.

So, there are some ways to work it with either the low/high EQ on the Behringer or the mid EQs on your controller (or a combination of both, just don’t go overboard lol).

Hope that helps.

Greetinx.

Hey DussT,

Yeah high and low EQ for simple mic channels is fine. It’s limited for room EQ, but then again any kind of 2- or 3-band non-parametric EQ is hopelessly inadequate. You mentioned the graphic EQ on the master which indeed is the best option, a good 4-channel parametric (with at least two of the channels parametric) can be useful in lieu of GEQ to filter out some naste frequencies.

I don’t usually use the on-board compression, although I have to say the built-in one-button compression on the Yamaha’s isn’t half bad when you are in a pinch.

USB I/O is 2-channel both ways. So you can either record your stereo master, or two tracks while playing back two more. This way you can do small “ping-pong” multitrack recording. Not as nice as having a full-fledged 16-channel digital recording session, but I know of quite a few people who do it that way. First record their piano, then a guitar, finally some vocals. Then post-production in Cubase or something. Especially for a quick demo, it’s very much worth the minor extra cost imho.

If faced with a choice between Yamaha MG-series and Behringer Xenyx, 100% Yamaha. Just my opinion of course, but having used both, it’s a no-brainer for me.

Greetinx.

I like the Inno Spot (80W LED) :-€