X Air XR18 : The future is here...

This desk has changed my life! No more lugging around outboard or having to set up a sound booth. I use this for festival bands and speeches and love the freedom it gives me, both in the amount of processing and the wireless connectivity.

I use the XR18 with a 4.2k Yamaha DSR PA, SM58s, AKG blueline condensors and AT MBK instrument mics. the system sounds great, my only negative comments would be that the parametric eqs are a bit weak and that the reverbs could be better.

You can hardwire a laptop to it, set it as an access point or connect it to a wireless network. I have only experienced connectivity issues once when controlling it from my android phone via its built in access point. This was in a packed nightclub. You can switch control devices without interrupting anything. The actual box itself has never glitched or failed and ive been using it intensively for 6 months.

As an added bonus it has 18ch I/O via USB. Awesome machine.