On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:36:37 -0600, jakdedert
wrote:

Scott Dorsey wrote:
In article , Phildo wrote:
"toronado455" wrote in message
ups.com...
Geoff, thanks for the telling me about Alto and Phonic. (The Makie is
nice, of course, but in a different size/class.)
Mackie is no better than the mixers you list. Cheap, overmarketed junk. They
would love you to believe it is better but Behringer is better at half the
price.

ALL of this stuff is cheap overmarketed junk, though. There really is not
much in the way of a simple stripped-down small mixer of any quality unless
you want something like the Shure units and can live without EQ or auxes.
So buy what is cheapest and prepare to upgrade.
--scott
I bought a little Soundcraft Folio 12/2 on eBay the other day for $63
(it helped that it was advertised as having a fault, which turned out to
not be the case). I was impressed with the structural integrity--heavy
gauge chassis--but the rotary pots are crappy, tiny pc mount jobs (not
much bigger than trimmers); which actually use the *knobs* for support!
It appears to fill most of the requirements I might put it to...has
sweepable mid eq, low filter, cue etc.

I wish it had channel inserts, and that the monitor send wasn't post eq.
It would work a charm for the OP, however.

jak

Why would you want to monitor pre-eq?

Just asking

d

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