For home recording and professional results you need the right hardware.
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The Pyle PMXU83BT is an affordable audio mixer for the home studio or for professional use that will give you high quality music. You can run this audio mixer with just one input, use it as a direct drive unit, run it as an analog audio interface or connect it to a USB audio interface device. It's easy to use so it's perfect both new in the field of professionals who know what they want. With eight channels and all usual inputs it's easy to start to play with it and good enough to get you a good result.
The Audio 2000S AMX7323 audio mixer is for home studio but it will give you high quality music and knobs for precise signal mixing. The equalizer gives you easy access to the bass, mid range, and high frequencies. Low level operation lets you adjust the input level for the lower frequencies, mid range adjustments give you tighter sounds, high frequencies are easily moved up or down and it gives you incredible accuracy. Add to that a display for the playing status and you got a small but nice mixer.
The Little Bear MC5 audio mixer for home is funny but powerful. It has separate inputs for monitoring and recording and four gain levels from which the signal can be processed. Each gain level can be set for a specific type of signal which is convenient to process any type of signal source. There is also a foot switch that can be used for bypassing some channels with a press of the designated button. With four inputs and four channels it's simple and it does its job.
Sound Town Triton-A12BD audio mixer has all the features that one might need to create a live performance. You can add more effects through the knobs and you can use the compressor. It has twelve channels and its three band equalizer it lets you customize the sound for each band member. For a live performance this mixer is a good thing and if has a condenser microphone compatibility which is a nice feature. It can be used by beginners or studio professionals so that's a powerful device. ■
