Behringer XENYX Q1002USB Premium 10-Input 2-Bus Mixer with XENYX Mic Preamps and Compressors, British EQ and USB/Audio Interface, Compatible with PC and Mac

Mixer Works great... I bought the Behringer 1002 originally but send that one back because i wanted to be able to use the USB functionality and the compressor... the compressor makes quiter things slightly louder and stops the really loud things peaking as much, an essential thing if you aree using a condesor mic and your voice naturally changs after time... NO buzzing with the usb interface, no distortion with the preamps... IMO the best budget mixer, if you dont need the amout of channels this mixer provides then the Q802USB is basically the same but at the moment this one is cheaper so why not go for the bigger one. Hope this helped!

We really like this mixer...+edited to reflect price change+But it then suddenly surged in price and was no longer the good buy it once was at (under) sixty quid.Would recommend you also look at Behringer Xenyx QX1002USB Premium 10 Input 2 Bus Mixer which can be a bit cheaper than this one and also has the Klark-Teknik multi-FX unit built in. We like that one too.+end edit+But this is still a good little mixer, just watch the prices carefully.It is very compact (which makes it portable, but a bit fiddly) weighs very little, and does an excellent job sonically.It seems well-enough made to survive our sort of use, unless I drop it and then tread on it.Some bands/musos I know of old might be advised to get something tougher. ;)The lack of a power switch on the mixer means that it has to be disconnected at the mixer or at the mains - using the mixer power plug in this way will probably increase the chances of a power lead or connector failure.So its PSU is now plugged into one of our mains plug-boards that has an on-off switch.Problem solved, but it would make more sense to include a power switch, please Mr Behringer?What do we do with it? Lots of stuff, potentially.This review is about the rehearsal set-up we built around it, intending to add a report on the USB Audio behaviour later on.Used to spend a fair number of days (and nights) in recording studios a long while back, working as an engineer and doing the odd spot of production for muso friends with a project. This is one of the smallest and cheapest desks I've used, and it is not at all shabby.The mixer was set up on a home-brewed 400W rms stereo full range system that has worked well for rehearsals and smaller gigs over 20 years.It immediately impressed with its low noise floor - even compared directly with a hand-made FET mike preamp/line driver and passive line mixer that I built back in the '90s.The pots are pretty quiet, too. Often a weakness in cheaper gear, and this mixer was not that expensive when we bought it.The EQs and compressor work well - the sensitivity controls on the two mic channels enable one to have a microphone in one and a bass (passive bass guitar or active B-Band semi-acoustic bass) plugged in directly to the mixer jack - the compressor does do good things for these basses and evens up my less-than-even vocals pretty well.OK, I'm not a pro singer - the voice is much better for clearing a pub at closing time - so I need all the help I can get!The EQs are fine, as noted - but we rarely need or use EQ unless the acoustics are weird. When experimenting they do seem to work happily and are non-intrusive in their action.The 48v phantom power is a boon. With that option you can support most microphones, just remember to turn it off when changing mike types, since that just might cause a problem.Centre-grounded ribbon mike + 48 volts = not a good idea......ditto plugging 48v into the output of a PC, tablet, iPod or 'phone.Most standard balanced-line dynamics and battery-powered electret condenser mics should be OK, and in practice ours are fine.(Having said that, we were unimpressed with a shiny new phantom-power condenser mike we tried recently - a BTSK BM-700.BTSK™BM-700 Condenser Mic (see separate review) Just because it's a condenser mike does not guarantee top quality.)We don't blame the mixer for this, since the Xenyx Q1002USB mixer works really well with our old Yamaha DM-6800 dynamic mike, as it does with a pair of Altai electret condenser mikes (cheap as chips, the sort with an AA battery inside the casing) and even a couple of anonymous dynamic mikes with AKG capsules and this CM05 Professional vocal condenser mic.It also handles the output of assorted electric guitar processors, an electric ukulele, a bowl-back acoustic active-piezo guitar, my home-brewed overdrive-of-Borg and no less than three assorted guitar synths all slaved to the one guitar with a GK-2A.Yes, that would be the black headless-guitar-of-Borg......and yes, it does sound very big indeed.Headphone monitoring is fine using an inexpensive pair of Sennheiser HD 201s, the FX send and return seem to work as advertised, and overall we are more than pleased with this small mixer.Sennheiser HD201 Closed Dynamic Stereo headphonesThere have been a couple of negative reviews relating to excessive noise with this mixer - we went ahead anyway because it seemed there were far more satisfied customers, and Amazon returns are so wonderfully painless - can only assume that there is the odd 'bad' one being made because ours is very good and quite exceptional at under sixty quid.Will update this review if ours turns bad, and will in any case add details of the USB Audio connection (and other features) when we have put in some time with them - it's a very useful feature to have on a mixer nowadays, and we plan to do interesting things with it.================================================================================...and here's the USB Audio update!We've used Audacity for testing since it is simple and very effective as well as being available for Linux, Mac and WIndows.It is also free (open-source, libre) software and free to download too.Audacity was running on an old Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop under UbuntuStudio 'Trusty' (14.04.x, fully updated) and we hooked it up to the USB before running it.That way the interface was registered by Audacity so we then selected the USB option for recording and playback.The mixer was set up to drive the monitors via the 'CTRL ROOM OUT' stereo pair of jacks. Their sound level is controlled by the "PHONES/CTRL ROOM" rotary fader on the left of the main slide fader which controls the main mix.You need to make sure that the main mix goes via the USB by pressing the "TO MAIN MIX" button in the "USB/2-TRACK" section on the left of the main slide fader.To test the system I played some guitar via a home brewed overdrive/DI box into channel 5 (left).I needed to wind it up near 8 on the dial -and- boost the gain with the little button because the guitar level is a bit low.The objective is to get the green level LEDs above the fader to light up most of the time and have the yellow LEDs (marked +6dB) at the top blinking on when the sound peaks - but only very occasionally.Lighting the red ones (marked 'CLIP) is too loud, better back off a bit right now.The Audacity level meter roughly agrees with all this - and your recording track will turn red if you overdo it.Audacity has a simple tape-like interface with stop/play, record, pause, and fast forward/backward buttons to move around.To set up the level you can push Pause, then Record, and play with the levels until they look good on the screen.Un-Pausing then starts you recording.....When you're done, rewind to the start and press Play.You may need to fiddle with the levels, but ours were roughly OK - the sound came out of our monitor speakers just fine.It does work well.Signal to noise was good and fidelity was exceptional. Trying microphones (you have to be careful toavoid feedback if you are using monitor speakers) was fine, and we plan to experiment with our new boundary micsfrom Amazon, to see how they perform via USB.It's a good little mixer, but be careful of the pricing, since this can vary widely.Recommended if this is the configuration you need at the price you can afford.It looks pretty good, too.

Been using this for years. Excellent sound quality (generally very low noise on the Mic inputs). Easy to adjust levels. Good connector options. Used with microphone, iPad for backing track, electric guitar and synth.USB makes recording very easy - just need to remember to manually switch from monitor to record during playback (it’s in the user guide).

For rehearsals I required a small mixer to allow keyboard, CD player and laptop to use a mono amp speaker. The ability to record the output via USB allows rehearsal tracks to be retained for use when the MD is away

I needed a mixer to handle 5 Inputs, these being PC, Guitar, Electric Drums, Phone and PS4, I got this for this exact purpose and haven't regretted it since I got it, the quality of the build is great and the sliders and knobs are smooth, however I wish there was a latch point on the main mix slider to stop it at 0 like on the balance, FX and level for each individual channel, and the power cord also easily comes out, which is a shame but I can deal with that, although I do unplug it every night due to no power switch.

Bought this to connect my drum machine and synthesizers but now realise why it is so cheap, The headphone jack is faulty as there seems to be a loose connection meaning that I need to keep twiddling the headphone plug into the slot so just I can hear the output correctly. I'm actually leaving a review now as I just turned in on and heard some static in my setup which made me wonder where it was coming from and yep you guessed it - its coming from the mixer. Even the device itself is poorly made - they can't even make it balance properly on itself without it leaning to one side. I only bought a Behringer mixer as I was using the U-Control before and never had any issues with it so thought I'd go with them again but now really regret it. Spend a bit of extra cash and get yourself a better quality mixer! Giving it 2 stars as it does the job but very poorly and have experienced a lot of issues.

Strange humming through the speakers when my Motif XF is connected to line in and my Mac is connected via USB, which takes some management to handle, but other than that I like this mixer a lot. I've paired it with an Audio Technica AT2020 mic, and I'm very happy with the results.

There is a slight wobble when you place it on a flat surface and I have to put a small bit of folded paper under one corner to stop it wobbling when I use it, but I only payed about £58.00 for it and for what you get that is nothing to worry about, it works very well so far with no problems.I just found that a little bit of blue tack on one corner works even better :)