Behringer UB802 Eurorack UB802 Mixer (8 Inputs) Review

Behringer UB802 Eurorack UB802 Mixer (8 Inputs)
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I've had the mixer for about a week. Basically it is a nice cheap way to get phantom power and a microphone preamp with a mixer thrown in! It all seems to work fine but it is the first mixer I've owned and used, so I don't have a lot to compare it against.. So far I think the unit is pretty good.
a few things to note.
1. There is no on/off switch. (I can live with out one, really)
2. The phantom power doesn't seem to turn off when you turn the phantom power switch off. The condenser mic keeps working and the phantom light stays lit. However if you unplug the unit the led slowly goes out and when you replug the power the phantom power is off (no mic sound or lit LED). Press phantom power on again an the mic works and the led goes on.
I think there might be some hefty power supply capacitors in the box considering how long the red led stays lit when the power is disconected. So maybe the phantom power will eventually run out after you switch it off. I haven't been patient enough to find out.
3. The pre-amp gain for dynamic microphones doesn't seem to be enough to use dynamic microphone at a distance greater than say 1 foot without noise becoming a problem. This was with an unbalanced output from the mic. I've yet to see if noise is a problem with a balances output from the dynamic mic. But more gain for dynamic microphone would be good.
4. However with a condenser mic (I use the audio technica AT2020) the gain available is fine, I'd like a little more but it is OK. Noise is pretty much zero at the levels I use.
5. The apparent somewhat limited gain makes it hard to balance the input from both my condenser and dynamic mic without winding back the gain on the condenser and max-ing out the gain for the dynamic (noise!).
However , it is deadly cheap but offers fabulous value for money. You get two mic inputs with phantom power, reasonable gain and other stuff as extras. In fact if I needed more mic inputs I'd probably buy another ub805 and plug it into the first ub805 as it would still be much cheaper than getting any 4 mic input mixer even the behringers own ub1205.
go for it dudes

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The Behringer UB802 Mixer features 2 Invisible Mic Preamps (IMPs), 6 balanced high-headroom line inputs, 1 post fader FX send per channel for external FX devices and 1 stereo aux return for FX applications or as separate stereo input. There is also an effective and extremely musical 3-band EQ on all channels. The UB802 is a Mixer that is well suited for use with fixed audio and video installations as well as keyboards, samplers and computer application.

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