Yamaha MG166CX-USB feedback

[MusicCameraAction]

Hi

Does anyone have any good/bad feedback about this Mixer? I'm thinking of getting one.

Does it send more than 2 channels on USB for recording on a DAW?

appreciate any feedback at all Samples of recordings are very much appreciated.

Thanks

 

[emgee]

http://www.yamaha.com.sg/Computer_Music_Productions_MW12CX.html

I have the following yamaha mixer and I advice you to stray away from yamaha mixers. There's something wrong with mine when recording all sorts of instruments, guitar/bass/drums/vocals. It sounds very stale and lifeless. I thought it was the pre-amp being too clean(putting it nicely) as whenever I record vocals with a pre-amp modeller on my pod x3 live it sounds much, much better than with the mixer.

But when i recorded using the mixer as an interface and using the pod x3's preamp, it still sounded stale(I THINK - i did a live recording once and the whole recording sounded stale, didn't pay much attention to the vocals through the pod x3 though). So the fault might lie in the yamaha mixer's ADC.

I've never heard many bad things about yamaha mixers, I think they're always fine for live/jamming usage but as everyone says, USB1.0 just doesn't cut it for recording. Even on the yamaha specs it says that the max resolution it can record at is 16bit, 44.1khz, stereo. And when they say 'maximum' ive got a feeling recording at that resolution(which really isnt even optimum) results in quality deterioration.

I have so many more things to say about my experience with it but I would really recommend you to spend 30% more for a USB2.0 or firewire interface. You won't regret it.

Ian

 

[MusicCameraAction]

Thanks for the feedback. I had a chance to try it out myself and I wasn't very happy with it. Maybe I tried it out just once and was not too familiar with it as yet. But I did have some issues with it. I was using it to record analog directly without going digital.