Yamaha MG16XU 16-Input 6-Bus Mixer with Effects
Original price was: $624.99.$587.43Current price is: $587.43.
Price: $624.99 - $587.43
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The Yamaha MG16XU analog mixer is well-suited for portable rigs or permanent installations, with its rich features and outstanding sound quality. The MG16XU’s quality op-amp ensures that your mix sounds transparent and articulate. The MG16XU’s crystal clear D-PRE preamps will squeeze every drop of tone from your mics, with natural-sounding bass and smooth highs. Featuring onboard digital effects, switchable phantom power, a pad switch, one-knob compressors, EQ, plenty of I/O, and LED metering, the MG16XU can take on just about any task you throw at it. Utilizing many state-of-the-art features from Yamaha’s high-end consoles, the MG16XU is ready to work for you! D-PRE discrete Class-A mic preamps deliver clean and natural sound Nobody wants to hear mics that are plugged into thin, distorted, or underpowered preamps. MG Series mixing consoles employ Yamaha’s transparent D-PRE preamps, which provide more power with lower impedance, delivering natural-sounding bass and smooth highs. D-PREs simply
16-Channel mixer with USB and SPX digital effects
Featuring studio-grade discrete class-A D-PRE preamps with inverted Darlington circuit – providing fat, natural sounding bass and smooth, soaring highs
3-band EQ and high-pass filters give you maximum control and eliminate unwanted noise, resulting in a cleaner mix
1-Knob compressors allow easy control – resulting in livelier guitars, punchier bass lines, a tighter snare and a cleaner vocal sound.
MG Series mixers feature a rugged, impact-resistant, powder-coated metal chassis
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Customers appreciate the audio mixing console’s sound quality, build quality, and functionality. They find it well-made, reliable, and functional for live gigs and karaoke. Many consider it a good value for the money.
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Original price was: $624.99.$587.43Current price is: $587.43.
Billy Bones –
Great sound and features.
This is a high quality, great sounding mixer that’s easy to set up and use. I originally bought the 10 channel version to connect media source (iTunes/Apple Music) to existing amplifier for practicing drums. Once I got it, I connected a few low quality mics to my Kick and snare drum and Oh Man! this really woke up my drums. I immediately bought the 12 channel version to mic up the rest of my drums (8 pc set) and record my playing.PROs: Easy set up (plug and play to MacBook via USB for playback (Apple Music) and recording (Garage Band) with great sound using 5 low end mics. (2 overhead, kick, hats and snare). FX really adds to overall sound/experience. Excellent mixer for live performances.CONs: Only has 6 mic inputs and 6 balanced (RCA-1/4″ Phono jacks) so I wasn’t able to mic up my additional 6 toms (used overhead mics for toms and cymbals). Also, the “final mix” is done on the mixer itself, pre recording, meaning the output is stereo only (2 tracks using left/right if you use pan knobs on 2 channels) vs. multi track recording, so no adjustments/fine tuning can be done on individual channels/mics in the mix post recording.Due to the cons and wanting “best of both worlds” (live performance with multi track recording) and more importantly, more mic inputs for toms. I ended up returning this mixer.I’ve considered the 16 and 20 channel versions of this mixer by Yamaha but overall cost would get me more inputs but still not have multitrack adjustment flexibility post recording.Leaning towards an audio interface by PreSonus or Focusrite for recording and possibly feed the output of that to the 6 or 10 channel Yamaha MG**XU for live/practice.This is a great mixer and sorry I had to return it. I would definitely recommend this mixer if you don’t need excessive mic inputs with multi track, post recording processing.
Diego Rivera –
Best mixer for price and live gigs under this price
Originally I was gonna buy a Rockville powered mixer but since Yamaha seems to already have a good reputation I decided to buy this one, I donât regret the decision, the mixers quality is on top for its price, it does its job for our live gigs, we play Mexican music so we use separate channels to link up bass so the tweeters donât pop, the Yamaha mixer mg16xu is so easy to use when you understand how one channel works, donât get overwhelmed because of all the knobs, itâs very easy to use, hands down this is one of the best mixers for its price.
Matt P. –
I was looking for something that was reliable sounded great, and had a good feature set
I looked at buying a few different mixers before deciding on this one. I was looking for something that was reliable sounded great, and had a good feature set. This mixer is great for a few reasons1) It’s yamaha. They are generally pretty reliable. I own other yamaha music equipment and haven’t had any issues with any of those items2) Has good fx including a compressor. The mic compressor alone makes this product so much better then other mixers in terms of versatility. For recording its nice to have a little compression for the vocal before it hits the AD converter.3) You can use this as an interface. I can’t comment on its use as a an interface as I own a universal audio solo 610 interface that I love. But its a good feature to have.4) The reverb: sounds wonderful. Particularly room 1, fx 3. It helps to glue everything together and put it in the same space.5) The use the fx send and it has been great for a ton of uses. I use it mostly as an external bus. Whats great here is that you can use the internal effect like say a reverb and mix in a little. You can simultaneously use the fx send and send out to a delay unit, and then place the return on another channel. Other units its fx send or internal fx, you won’t be able to use both.6) Feels sturdy and seems well built. So far i’ve had it on well over 20 hours of use and its been good. I’ll update this in a few months.7) Value. For the money if you compare the comparable mixers like behringer and mackie I think the choice is clear. Both of the former companies have reliability issues. Mackie preamps are good but fx are bad. Behringer preamps are hit and miss but fx are good. Yamaha is overall great.Cons: For me nothing really except I wish the EQ had three bands for every channel. And I wish I could have an fx send that wasn’t tied to the internal fx.
Atmosphere mx –
IncreÃble mezcladora, note una diferencia muy abismal al momento de escuchar el audio! Calidad incomparable. Excelente producto
Francisco –
Hermosa, se escuchan bien los aparatos se escucha bien en la iglesia. Gracias Yamaha, la recomiendo ampliamente
Maria Puga Flores –
Consola con buenas prestaciones, se puede ecualizar frecuencias de graves y agudos, multiples entradas para conectar pistas y secuencias. lo uso para ensayar en un bajo de 5 cuerdas. muy practico y elegante. otorga buen sonido con audifonos tascam th-mx2. el precio en amazon es el mas bajo en compras online. en tiendas fisicas esta consolo esta al doble de precio. excelente consolo para ensayar y escuchar musica.
miridjp –
Tiene muy buen tamaño, no es estorbosa ni muy pequeña, hasta el momento todo bien, tenÃa mis dudas porque es un producto de exportación pero llegó antes del tiempo planeado.
Angelo Miquelão Filho –
Eu sai de uma Yamaha de doze canais para esta com desesseis, confesso que me agradou muito o visual, mas o que fala alto nela é a qualidade. A mesa anterior e da mesma marca só foi trocada pelo fato de ter queimado a fonte externa, já tinha 14 ano de bons serviços, agora é explorar e aproveitar a qualidade Yamaha, os ouvidos dos ouvintes agradecem.