Which was one of my reasons for going with the Crest, although why this
thing is even suggested for anything BUT an installation I don't know.
Phantom power is not only recessed but on the back panel and a bear to
reach. It works fine in my gig rig for a weeks worth of festival events,
but it's really a pain otherwise, so I have two different rack units to
carry it in, depending on the type of gig. For some reason I simply don't
like mixing in the vertical (which is necessary if you want access to the
backplane. Seems too strange.

But then the product itself is excellent in sound quality and routing
flexibility if one ignores the less than stellar ease of setup. Overall I'm
still glad I didn't get the Venice.

However, George, I don't know how this relates to a Behringer thread! g

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Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio
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See how far $20 really goes.




"George Gleason" wrote in message
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"Paul van der Heu" wrote in message
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"Steven Sena" wrote :

Low end... Cheap...Better than nothing, I guess...

Based on what? your (recent) experience with them or hearsay.. BEhringer
has come a LONG way over the last 2 years..

Having used my DDX 3216 quite intensive over the last three months (on
the
road). I can it is a stable, well built and great sounding piece of
equipment. It's flexible, intuitive and the bands I work with notice it
sounds much better then my previous mixer (A&H GL3300)..

32in/22out and 2 ADAT lightpipes I/O for under 2200 euros.. and it works
great!

One of the bands I work with bought a Midas (Venice) recently, for
almost
three times what I paid for my setup, and after two monts parts are
coming
loose and I heard strange squicky noises when I open the case..

Low end? nope

cheap? yes (as in mucho bang for your bucks)

Better then nothing? what isn't!


I have mixed on several of the venice consloe and loved mixing on them
the
headroom and eq have no equal
BUT nearly every owner I have talked to have reported the same ****-ant
failures that they never expected buying a "Midas"
IMO the midas was rushed to market and not thought out very well(in areas
such as the aux buss pre/post setup, the phantom power switches, the vent
holes that bleed sun light into the LEDs)
thank god I saw this before I bought one!!!
George