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Yamaha MG206C

Item ID: MG206C

20-channel, 6-bus Live Mixer with Channel EQ and Compression, Phantom Power, and Lightweight Design

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A 20-channel Live Mixer with Great Features for a Great Price!

The Yamaha MG206C 20-channel live mixing console will give you the capacity, control, and performance you need to get great live mixing results. The MG206C is remarkably compact and lightweight, but no compromises have been made in terms of features, performance, or durability. You get premium preamps, top-mounted inputs and outputs for easy patching and re-patching, impressive built-in single-knob compression, and EQ that's practical as well as very musical. All these features make the MG206C a great value!



Yamaha MG206C 20-channel Live Mixer at a Glance:
  • Lightweight and portable
  • Versatile connections, handy placement
  • Channel compressors
  • Top-notch mic preamps with switchable phantom power
  • 3-band Channel EQ, high-pass filters

Lightweight and portable
The Yamaha design team went to extraordinary lengths in the MG series, including in-depth material and structural analysis, to bring you maximum manageability and maximum performance in the same packages. The result is that you can easily pop the smallest models into your briefcase or shoulder bag and take with you anywhere. Even the larger models can be tucked under an arm and carried around quite easily. But the performance you'll get at the studio, club, hall, or anywhere you choose to use these fine mixers is far from lightweight. Every one of the MGseries mixers provides significant space savings along with huge performance benefits.

Versatile connections, handy placement
Top-mounted input and output connectors make setting up and re-patching your system quick and easy. All models feature high-quality Neutrik™ balanced XLR connectors on mono microphone/line channels and XLR-equipped stereo channels. These professional-class connectors were subjected to extensive testing by the Yamaha design team, and were chosen for the MG mixers for their superior reliability and sonic qualities. The XLR-equipped stereo channels can accept mono microphone input either via the XLR or phone jack connectors. The remaining stereo channels provide phone jack and pin jack connectors for compatibility with a wide range of sources. Mono input channels also feature insert I/O connectors that let you patch external signal processing gear into those channels as required. Separate pinjack 2TR inputs are provided to accept the output from a CD player or similar stereo source.

Channel compressors
This advanced feature can be a tremendous advantage in achieving great vocal sound, as well as to refine the sound of bass, guitar, and other sources. The new MG mixers give you Yamaha's innovative one-knob compression feature on several of the mono input channels. Conventional audio compressors with their threshold, ratio, knee, makeup gain and other controls can be complex and timeconsuming to set appropriately for a given source. Yamaha's one-knob compressor eliminates the need for an engineering degree with a single control that lets you simply dial in the amount of compression you want.

Top-notch mic preamps with switchable phantom power
Microphone preamplifiers are critical in any mixer, and a performance bottleneck in many. That's why pros often spend thousands of dollars on just a single channel of microphone pre-amplification. The microphone preamps built into the MG mixers inherit technology from Yamaha's top-line professional consoles, and have been painstakingly designed to deliver superior sonic performance with any dynamic or condenser microphone. Gain trim covers a wide -60dB to -16dB range for microphones (-34dB to +10dB for line input), so you'll be able to achieve optimum level matching with just about any source. All microphone preamps also feature switchable phantom power so you can take advantage of the natural, extended response of high-quality condenser microphones.

3-band Channel EQ, high-pass filters
Building a truly useful, musical-sounding channel equalizer is no easy task, but Yamaha has decades of experience in building pro consoles to draw on. You reap the benefits in the MG series mixers: all mono channels feature 3-band equalizers with LOW, MID, and HIGH controls. Depending on the model some of all of the stereo channels have 2-band EQ for smooth equalization of stereo sources. Although not directly related to the equalizer circuitry, all inputs also feature 80 Hz low-pass filters that can be used to eliminate subsonic noise that is outside the equalizers' range.

Yamaha MG206C-USB 20-channel Live Mixer Features:
  • 20 input channels
  • High-quality mic preamps
  • 16 mic inputs, four stereo line inputs
  • HPF
  • 12 insert I/O
  • Eight compressors
  • Phantom power switch (+ 48V)
  • Illuminated CH ON switches
  • 3-band mid-sweep EQ (Ch 1-12)
  • 60mm super-smooth faders
  • 2-band EQ (Ch 13/14-19/20)
  • Monitor mix
  • Six busses (stereo + 4 groups)
  • Lightweight (6.0 kg)
  • Four aux sends
  • 12-segment LED level meter
  • Two stereo aux returns
  • Rackmountable
  • Neutrik™ XLR connectors
  • Input gain trim


Yamaha MG206C 20-channel live mixer gives you premium performance, plus light weight and a great price!

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Specification Detail
Type Analog
Channels 20
Inputs - Mic Preamps 12 x XLR (CH1-12), 4 x XLR (CH 13-20 Stereo)
Inputs - Line 12 x 1/4" (CH1-12), 4 x 1/4" (CH 13-16 Stereo), 2 x 1/4", RCA (CH 17-20 Stereo), 2 x RCA (2TR)
Inputs - Other No Other Inputs
Outputs - Main 2 x XLR, 2 x 1/4"
Outputs - Direct No Direct Outputs
Outputs - Other 2 x 1/4" (Monitor), 4 x 1/4" (Group), 2 x RCA (REC)
Headphones 1 x 1/4"
Send/Return I/O 4 x 1/4" (Send), 4 x 1/4" (Return)
Phantom Power 16
EQ Bands 3-band Sweepable Mid (CH 1-12), 3-band (CH 13-20 Stereo)
Aux Sends 1 x Pre, 2 x Pre/Post, 1 x Post
Busses/Groups Group 1-2, 3-4
Faders 19 x 60mm
Channel Inserts Yes (CH 1-12)
Effects Yes (Compressor on CH 1-12, 13/14, 15/16, 17/18, 19/20)
Talkback No Talkback
Computer Connectivity No Computer Connectivity
Rackmountable Yes
Height 4.1"
Depth 19.5"
Width 18.8"
Weight 13.2 lbs
Manufacturer Part Number MG206C

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by LiveSoundRocks from Indianapolis, IN
October 13, 2011
Music Background: Live Sound Engineer
Upgraded from the MG166C because I would run out of XLR inputs (or gain controls) with various bands due to lots of singers, drum mics, etc. The MG206C mixer is great!! Clean sounding!, Gain control... read more [+]s on every channel, 4 Aux channels, Compression on 8 channels. Using this mixer, I have no fear that I will run out of channels when hosting events. This mixer probably has the most bang for the buck of any rack mounted analog mixer! It gives you the tools to create an excellent sounding event, which translates into a successful event !! close [-]

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