SV: tones etc. frisell, mixers, and all things loopie --> mixer

["Per Boysen" <per@boysen.se>]

> Från: Louie Angulo [mailto:laab2000us@yahoo.com] 

> I was told by a friend to stay away from behringer
> mixers i have never owned a Mixer so this is a new
> thang for me.


Hi Louie,

I was also given this advice from some experienced pro users, they said
a Behringer won't last as long as a Mackie. But they are so cheap so I
bought one anyway for my looping rig. Thought I could as well buy
another one if it should break down; you know you can find Behringers in
any store if this should happen while traveling. Mine is a cute Eurorack
MX 1604A and I mounted it on top of a Gator rack where I also keep a
repeater, an EDP, a guitar pre-amp, a mic pre-amp (for saxophone and
vocals), a Lexicon reverb and a stereo compressor on the output to keep
levels right before going to the PA stage box/recorder. Although the
tape in-put stopped working after a week I like this mixer and find my
set-up very flexible. Using three channels for the repeater, one for the
EDP, one for guitar input and one for sax/mic input, I'm getting two
channels left to bring other sound sources into the looping rack. The
reverb is in the mixer effect send/return loop, there are two sends on
each channel so I'm only using one so far. Both loopers get their input
signal from the "Alt 3-4" output. This button is on every mixer channel
and I can simply push it to send the signal to the recording loopers.

For my needs this little Behringer is ok. It has the inputs, outputs and
routing possibilties I was looking for.

Best wishes

Per Boysen
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