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PreSonus StudioLive 16.4.2 16-Channel Digital Mixer with FireWire Interface Reviews
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Average Review: 2
Manufacturer: PreSonus
Price: $1999.95
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About the PreSonus StudioLive 16.4.2 16-Channel Digital Mixer with FireWire Interface
StudioLive is the most powerful and flexible sixteen-channel digital mixer the world has seen. Loaded with sixteen high headroom XMAX microphone preamplifiers, built-in 32x18 FireWire recording and playback engine, "Fat-Channel" processing with 4-band EQ's, compressors, limiters and gates, DSP effects, six aux buses, four sub-groups, extensive LED metering, mixer save and recall, channel-strip save/recall/copy/paste, talkback and more, breaking new boundaries for music performance and production.
PreSonus StudioLive 16.4.2 16-Channel Digital Mixer with FireWire Interface Reviews
NOTE- I HAVE ONLY USED THIS BOARD IN A LIVE SOUND SETTING, MY REVIEW DOES NOT COVER ANY OF THE STUDIO/RECORDING SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THIS BOARD.So let me put this in context a bit. I minored in Audio Engineering in college, I've always been a kind of gear head with audio stuff but I'm not behind a DAW or mixer every day and until this mixer, I hand't seriously used a mixer in about 2 years. Up until this mixer I had always used analog gear, frankly, I just never gave the time to get the hang of digital boards finer points. I needed a setup primarily to mix live sound in a venue that I was building in the basement of my office. My original proposed setup was going to be the A&H 16ch with a bunch of rack mounted gear (compressors, reverb and delay units, 31 band eqs, etc). My good friend who runs his own production company and helped me design the setup lobbied for this PreSonus board, day and night for a week. I was skeptical of digital and nervous about the learning curve because I didn't have the luxury to learn it over a few weeks, I was having a show that next week. I finally started watching the videos about the 16.4.2 and decided to give it a try.To say I've been impressed is an understatement. I actually get a giant sh*t eating grin every time I go to use it, it's that good and that pleasant to use. There was NO outboard gear to setup besides a power conditioner. It has aux send delays, compressors, FXs, gate, visual 4 band EQ and (with firmware update) 31 band eq for EVERY SINGLE CHANNEL STRIP, including aux, main and sub groups. I was rocking out on it in less than a few hours after touching it for the first time. As soon as you wrap your head around the way the FAT Channel works (which isn't that hard), it's easy sailing from there on in.The FAT Channel is genius, the iPad interface with the firmware update is INSANELY convenient. I had to setup the mixing board shotgun, just off stage right. The iPad lets me mix and do monitors from anywhere in the room!I never write reviews, which is why this is so long, sorry...but I have literally become a PreSonus 16.4.2 fanboy after getting it.
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