Behringer Xenyx 302USB 5-stars Reviews

Convenient connectivity!

This is a great little tool for home recording, it connects easily via usb to a computer and adds xlr, rca and 1/4" jack inputs. It's sturdily and well built, takes up very little space and comes highly recommended! I can't say much more ahout it, it does the job well!

Compact, reliable and simple

I use this to mix a Live radio mic (XLR) and Music (stereo phono) connected via USB to a Webcast Encoder for Live broadcasts.

Has been very reliable, easy and light to carry around.

USB powered so no messing with Plugs, cables and Ground Hum !

Great value mixer

This mixer is able to be used both as a mixer and also as an USB interface for your computer.

It works well and requires no special drivers to be installed.

I bought this mainly to use with a dynamic mic and for that it works perfectly however, this mixer is unable to power most condenser mics as most of them require more than 15 volts (which is how much this mixer provides).

This mixer can also be used with high end headphones that have high impedance as it is able to give the headphones more power than a typical on-board solution that is found in most modern motherboards.

All in all, I would consider this to be a very good product for the money and would have no problem recommending it to anyone.

Ideal musicians travel companion

While there are smaller competitors to hook up to your netbook or computer non boast as many features or monitoring choices unless you double the cost.

This unit has also the audio control quality that previous Behringer customer know they can rely on ..prior to giving their live mixers a chance 10 years ago I only trusted Soundcraft spirit folio range as a portable live onstage/fast hookup home mixer ..I now own several of their models and these have been used for small venue live performances and pod casting with quality results...this latest addition has already proven itself since its delivery last year

Improves my music

I mainly bought this to have the abillity to plug may bass into the PC and through my monitors. For that it's amazing. Just plug and play, and you could say that there's no need for a practice amp anymore, plus now I can record myself.

Apart from playing bass I will be using this to do some vocals, maybe some podcasting, who knows because this thing can help me out with that.

Third would be that I have a crappy sound card on my Lenovo, this thing fixes that also giving an abillity to mess around with bass and treble because of the EQ it has.

It has nothing to be complaining about, no noise, no nothing. It's great, I love it. It has made my laptop and cheap monitors into a decent home studio... I do music as a hobby, but I think for the price this thing should be in a pro musicians arsenal.

Woo-hooo

Cheap and good. I bought it for recording a single microphone, does a great job. USB interface installs right away, no driver needed. Audacity, Steinberg notices it and handles well. The phantom is great on this one too, as on all the behringer xenyxes, really stable pots, small body, sounds great too. No buzz, no jitter, even with cheap mics. Absolutely worth buying.

Very useful interface/mixer

Perfect for home recording - if you are happy to record with only 16bit bit depth (it will barely impact audio quality but you need to be careful with further processing of the tracks in a DAW as your 'headroom' will be more restricted than if the interface was 24bit). I use this with a dynamic microphone or a guitar in one channel, my laptop in the second channel and a synth connected tot he third channel. I also connect the outputs to my stereo amplifier. Software/drivers installation is painless, the simple EQ is nice and the controls are noiseless. There are limitations but as long as you understand them you will find a way to work around them. The build quality is super - the casing is metal and the unit is quite sturdy..The only thing I would improve is the USB cable connection is somewhat loose - on several occasions the connector has slipped out of the port.

However in summary - for the price, this is a great little unit. Well recommended.

Great help

I and my son are both interested in producing music at home. To connect our musical Instruments and mics to our laptop to record in a daw, we needed a usb interface. After reading quite many reviews, I decided to order this Behringer Xenyx 302 USB mixer to do the work. Little price that we paid for it actually brought us a great mixer with all the Basic tools to record really clean sounds with ease and great satisfaction. Guitars, bass and mics are all connected through this wonderful cheap mixer and we don't have almost anything to complain about. We plug the headphones in the mixer and practise or record without disturbing anyone . It also made me put my practise amp away since with the phones, I can practise as loud as I want.

This audio interface was bought as a way to channel my condenser mic. It has proved to be fantastic. I've had no problems with it. Its easy to use gives off a fantastic sound, I have only used it for Ableton so I cant speak for any other program's but it was very easy to set up. I am a music technology student in my final year so I know a bit about interfaces, if you want a cheap small interface for a mic where you want to record your vocals or record pod-casts etc its perfect for this use.

Dinky little mixer/external sound card

Use this for connecting my macbook to my monitor speakers and the sound is excellent. Build quality is amazing and it is so well laid out for such a tiny device. I also plan on using this for doing some home recording and practising bass/guitar through so will update my review in due course.

Update:

Finally got round to hooking my guitar up to this, I output my zoom multistomp into the line in and output it to my monitor speakers. This allows me to hear the pedal in true stereo so i can play around with the panning effects. I also got round to testing it in garageband. Initially it had some bad latency but I just shut garageband down and unplugged it and restarted garageband and it was fine.

The only gripe I have is that I have to record using headphones as I can't figure out how to output the line input from the guitar to garageband while listening to the output (including the guitar) from garageband through the mixers and speakers. If anyone has this mixer and knows if this can be done please email me on [email protected].

Can't comment on tracktion software that comes free as behringer never got back to me with code after registering.

Real good mixer

I use the Behringer Xenyx 302 to record vocals with my Windows 7 PC.

You can connect it via USB. I had no problems with drivers to get it run on my system.

You can also run it without a PC with the included power supply. In this mode I use it to hear my singing on headphones.

The quality is really good. The recorded sound is better than i expected, as this mixer is really cheap. You have enough adjust possibilities. It is really small and it's not too heavy. The nubs are of good quality.

You can also record guitars with it and it sounds naturally.

Best low budget mixer for homerecordings!

Good value

I use it for a headphone mix only and for this it is perfect. Very portable and very well priced.

Perfect mixer

The only thing that came in mind after using this for two days was that the product must the best mixer that you can get for this money and with these features.

Has the needed features and a little more and the quality is perfect.

The nubs are good and loose enough to turn. That's a good thing!

The USB feature makes this product even better and I have nothing to complain.

It's awesome

It's a great starter for my home studio, I love using it to record vocals! It's easy to set up, and use! A very good investment for anyone just starting out in the world of home recording :)