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| |  | Professional Video Accessories | Home » » » Behringer 1204 Xenyx Premium 12-Input 2/2-Bus Mixer with Xenyx Mic Preamps, British Eqs And Usb/Audio Interface | | | | | | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 12.9 inches | | Product Width:
| 10.6 inches | | Product Height:
| 3.8 inches | | Product Weight:
| 6.2 pounds | | Package Length:
| 15.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 14.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 5.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 10.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 13 reviews |
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20 of 20 found the following review helpful:
 What more Could You Ask For??Apr 18, 2009
By RICHARD SILVESTRI
I got this mixer about 6 months ago. My friend and I do a weekly radio show on livevideo dot com every wednesday. We began by calling in on headsets with a mic, but I got this mixer and man is it great. I can have myself, and 3 other friends all on individual mics. I can control the volume and EQ for each mic, and mute them with one click. While thats all hooked up, I have a computer used soley as a music/sound effects machine. This mixer also has a total of 3 outs. So you can record on one out and still have 2 other usable outs. I did alot of research on mixers, and I'm 100% satisfied. I might suggest spending the extra money and buying the FX model. I didn't think I would need it, but I wish I would have the option to add effects to the sound. Even without that options is still a 10 out of 10!
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Yes ,this is the current modelOct 10, 2010
By Tom R
Despite the long description and photo, this is the current model with the built-in USB and the compressors on the mic channels. At least that is so for the one I bought from Amazon.
Why the 3 star rating.
1. Inadequate gain on the pre's. While it may be fine for mic'ing your guitar cabinet, it is not adequate for voice over work.
2. Inconsistent performance, each channel requires different setting with the same mic.
3. Unbalanced, you need to pan a mic (to the left on mine) to get it to center the stereo image.
Despite those problems, it seems to be a great mixing console for the money, you would need to speed twice what I did to get the same features in another brand. For a working pro that is probably a good idea, but for the home user like me the savings is worth more than the inconvenience those problems cause. The reason for the down rating is 90% because of the inadequate preamp gain problem. They really need another 20db gain.
I do not know why they chose to do it that way? Afraid users would turn it up too much and destroy their amp and speakers? Too cheap to provide a 20db pad? As it is you wind up amplifying the noise in the subsequent stages along with the signal. Probably where Behringer gets their reputation for noisy preamps.
The one knob compressors seem to work OK. I quickly found out that their instructions to turn it up until the red LED came on was not good advice, unless you like choppy distorted sound. Turning it up until the LED comes on, and then backing off until it just does not seems to be about the best setting. That does bring up the signal level a bit, but it also brings up the noise level so you have to back off to keep the noise down, which kind of (partially) defeats the purpose. Still it does help a bit.
The internal USB seems to work well, Windows (XP Pro x64, in my case) keeps resetting to the internal sound card so it is a good idea to check that has not happened. The mixer and Audacity do not seem to use ASIO4ALL despite the manuals saying both are ASIO compatible.
As I said 90% of what I do not like about this mixer is the lack of adequate preamplifier gain. If that was fixed I would give it a solid 4-4.5 rating.
ADDED: Behringer Support said the mixer was defective. I exchange it for another one, amazon was great about that. That fixed all three of the problems mentioned above. However, the mic pre's are still a bit weak and noisy for my taste (I raised my rating to 4 stars, from 3, if the pre's were better I would give it 5 now). I can see the pre's giving 60db of gain on the replacement, but that is kind of weak if you want to run dynamics with -72db sensitivity on it, however with an outboard preamp you should be able to peg everything, and the noise is no existent.
One of the things I often see in these kinds of mini-reviews is people deciding that the equipment is junk without even trying to get a good one. At this price point they are not all tested as the come off the assembly line, you may have to be the final QC tester. I feel that for $100+ savings over a more expensive one that is acceptable.
While this one is missing a few things that the X1204USB has, it does have a better 12 step VU meter.
I did not realize that until looking more closely at teh X1204USB spec's.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
The Little Guy That CouldJan 05, 2010
By P. Vernon
"Trance Lucent"
I love this little mixer -- and at a great price point too! The USB interface, though not on board per se, is not the biggest of deals as it works well and is CLEAN as a peripheral! I plan on using it in the field as well in my own studio. Thanks Behringer!
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
LOVE THIS MIXERAug 13, 2011
By William kelemen
I can not say enough about this mixer, it is amazing, the USB function on it is amazing, It has stereo in and out via USB. Keep in mind, you wont get all 8 channels though usb, you will get left and right channels, which for me is more than perfect. The British style EQ's are very nice. All of the nobs are very sturdy. The mixer itself is very light. Over all would recommend this to everyone.
For your reference, i am a producer, and i do recordings of various artists across several genres.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 More Hiss than a box of snakesNov 21, 2010
By David M. Pierce
A very disappointing purchase. Based on generally positive reviews of this model and Behringer boards in general, I may have just got a lemon. It happens. This unit produced very noticeable hiss - a level unacceptable for either home studio or live performance use. Unusable. I sent it back.
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