Not much shielding going on with the mini-jack input. Nice touch with being able to switch off the mini-jack input (see below)Ĭons: I mean, for the price, not really any concerns (much better build quality than the Behringer stuff), not the greatest sound in the world though. You can plug XLR microphones into channels one and two, including condensers thanks to the selectable 48V-phantom power supply. Pros: plenty of connectivity, small size, 'just works' like all of Alesis's stuff (I have also have a compact keyboard MIDI controller of theirs), seems quite rugged. For cons, I do not know if this is the design of the Alesis Multimix 4 in general is not great, cheap components, for example, or if my card had a problem. I can control the signal volume so I get a nice mix between track and vocal take too. It works! For recording foldback with the two outs from the pre-amp I can hear the exact signal going in to the DAW.

The Multimix 8 USB FX needs two separate 18V AC inputs, each at 320mA. This is probably used inside the mixer with one lead taken to chassis ground and the other serving two half-wave rectifiers for the internal + and - rails. I mention this because it took me ages to work this out on the web as I didn't know if the pre-amps dual outputs were mutually exclusive. According to the user manuals, the Multimix 6FX needs a single 17.5V AC input at 700mA (18V AC would be OK).

I bought this as a monitoring system for recording vocals (or whatever) through a pre-amp with two outs so one goes to the little desk (which I can add reverb to the signal with too, without recording it) and the other to my audio interface. Buy Alesis MultiMix 4 USB FX 4-Channel Mixer and USB Audio Interface featuring XLR Microphone and 1/4' Line Inputs, 1/4' Hi-Z Input, Stereo 1/4' Outputs, 16-Bit / 48 kHz Resolution USB Interface, 15 Integrated DSP Effects, 2-Band Channel EQ, Multicolor LED Metering, 1/4' Headphone Output, Plug and Play on Mac and Windows, Includes Pro Tools First.

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