Re: Re: Behringer weight and mixer options

[Duke Sexton <catilyne@icicle.net>]

At 11:27 AM 12/16/2002 -0500, SoundFNR@aol.com wrote:

>Have you considered a 1u mixer, there's a number
>of options available.

Well you'd have to troll the used market, but since I'm using 'em myself 
let me throw in a plug for the Simmons SPM 8:2.  It's 1U rackmount with 
8-in, 2-out, 2 mono effect send/returns and a headphone output.  Each 
channel has individual high, low, and sweepable parametric mid for EQ.  In 
addition, 128 presets can be stored then individually recalled via 
MIDI.  You can control/store the rate that the each individual presets 
will 
"fade" from one program to the next, giving you rough scene-automation 
capability.  Also, there are built in tremelo and phase effects that may 
be 
applied individually to each channel.

Caveats are that individual units can be a bit noisy (especially earlier 
software revs; most of the biggest problems were worked out by ROM 
revision 
3 or 4, though).  You can pretty much take care of that, however, by 
carefully setting the trim pot on each channel when first setting up the 
unit.  I've got four SPM 8:2's -- two earlier and two later models -- and 
now that I've got their input gain properly tuned I can tell the 
difference 
between them if I try, but only just.  Also, the front panel controls can 
be a bit fiddly (then again, I've got pretty big fingers) but they're 
cramming a whole buncha functions into a 1U faceplate.

These little guys creep up every once in a while on Ebay for pretty decent 
prices.  I see one went a couple weeks ago for $90 and... good gods, 
somebody turned one around for $27, as well.  Anyway, looks like you could 
get a good deal on one of these if you keep an eye out.

         -c-

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