Xenyx X1204 USB : Great mixer, not so great Headphone Amp

For the price you pay this mixer is unbelievable great. I have it hooked up to my Linux Mint notebook recording and monitoring Audacity. The quality I am getting with this, together with my Behringer C1 mic is unbelievable good. It does take a lot of work getting the gain level just right, and the main fades need to be in the zero position or the usb signal is too low, yet when its right its doing the job with low or little noise.

It SEEMS to be noisy through the headphones, and that put one off a bit at first, yet I managed to send the contol outs to my little hifi amp and the quality is just great. I read somewhere the headphone amps are no good on Behringer. The control pot itself is perfect, the noise is only from the amp itself, which is AFTER the control output amplification stage. I really feel that this is an area which it took me a long time to figure out, so I pass it on to you. I was quite worried about my combined purchase of the Mic and Mixer, cause I need it for live playing in the street also, yet this headphone amp problem/fix has done it for me. I will probably use the same little amp in the street so I get a good in ear monitor sound for live playing.

Highly Recommended.