The Behringer Xenyx 802 is a very nice control board for the price. It
came promptly, and included a very nice manual in several languages. I
had enough background knowledge to use this product out of the box, but
for somebody who didn't, the manual could very easily explain it to them
quickly and have them mixing in no time. The only real thing I noticed
quickly is that the light signifying that it is on is obnoxiously
bright, to the point where it is distracting. This was an easy fix, I
taped a little piece of lighting gel over it and got it to a point where
I liked it. I played with the mixing functions a little bit using
several techniques and my results are recorded below:
The first
test of this unit was simply trying it out with a few different medium
quality speakers and seeing how it sounded. I attached an Mp3 player for
input and hooked up several bases for output. Most of the controls
worked flawlessly, the board didn't seem to be broken in any way.
Distortion was pretty high, I messed with the gain a bit, and played
with the various volumes and EQs until I got it how I liked. This would
have been a bigger problem if I had been somebody whom had never
operated a mixer before, it would've taken a lot longer to fix this
using only the manual. The EQs worked nicely, the middle functioned
particularly well, bass caused some distortion but nothing annoying;
however, treble wasn't excellent, it made the high frequency audio sound
a tad metallic and cut off some at the top.
My second test was
also with an Mp3 player as input, but this time I used several different
types of headphones as output. Distortion was higher this time, and
with some songs I could not completely eliminate it. That said, the
control room function worked nicely with a little less distortion, and
I'm not quite sure why I would want headphones on one of the mains. The
EQs did little to eliminate this distortion, as did the gain, but I
could limit it using the various volumes.
My third test involved
using the mixer as if it were mixing for an actual band. I had a Shure
Sm58 wired on input 1, a Crown "Floor Mic" on input 2, a bass guitar and
(cheap) electric guitar on input 3/4 , and a keyboard on input 5/6. The
whole 3/4 and 5/6 inputs bugged me, as it really shouldn't have been
considered 6 input. I ended up plugging the guitars and keyboards into
the double amps because the doubles didn't have XLR which the
microphones needed. That said, phantom power worked like a charm and the
floor mic worked nicely. Distortion was considerably lower with my
voice as the input, and I was unable to hit any notes high enough to
sound bad (well...bad in comparison to my normal voice.) The Bass/guitar
match up worked nicely, as the bass EQ barely affected the guitar and
the treble EQ affected the bass. This allowed me some level of
individuality, but not as much as I would have liked. Distortion was
higher in both of the actual instruments in comparison to the
microphones, but not in comparison to the mp3 players. This pleased me a
little bit, but the lack of individual controls makes me wonder whether
setting up this board to run a band would be a good idea.
My
final test involved plugging it in to a full audio system in a real
venue, and seeing how it sounded there. I tried out several different
inputs and outputs, including but not limited to floor mics, sm58s
(wired and otherwise), sm57s, a computer, and an mp3 player. The
problems were approximately the same; however, with high power
amplifiers I didn't need to use the amplification included in the board
at all. Doing this, distortion was cut out almost completely.
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