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Yamaha MG166CX-USB Reviews

5 3.5/5.0 based on 3 customer reviews
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Doug Kasuske
from South Dakota
February 29, 2012 Music Background:
Hobbyist

Yamaha MG166CX-USB I LIKE THE EFFECTS AND LOOKS

Its nice for effects and recording.
Rick Gravelin
from South Burlington, Vt
January 6, 2009 Music Background:
Recording Engineer, Live Sound Engineer

Amazingly quite with a lot of nice features.

Over-all this is a great mixer for the price. It's amazingly quite with a lot of nice features like lighted channel on switches, six channel compression, and parametric mid-range eq, but it is not built as rugged as a Mackie. I purchased the unit to use on video shoots and band gigs. I was thinking that this would serve as a nice audio interface but USB is only two channel out, post mix. Product write up does not do a great job of describing how USB interface works.

I would recommend a hard shell travel case for this unit.
Jeremy Moisson
from Lowell, MA
November 8, 2010 Music Background:
Live Sound Engineer, Student

Good Product, but not all it seems

A solid mixer with an incredible number of features and channels for the price but not all the features are fully fledged enough to be useful. The effects are alright, the compressors are sort of useful but obviously can't be manipulated much since they're only a single knob and finally the USB is misleading. It only sends the left and right main outs to your computer but I probably shouldn't have expected more on such an inexpensive mixer. Not terribly useful for creating a well mixed live recording.

Yamaha MG166CX-USB

16-channel, 6-bus Live Mixer with USB Connectivity, Digital Effects, Channel EQ and Compression, Phantom Power, Bundled Cubase Software, and Lightweight Design

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