Behringer Xenyx 502 Reviews

Easy to use, great value

Good value little mixer.

I'm using it with a Roland TD25KV kit to split to two drum monitors and feed the main mixing board.

I'm also using it with a Friedman Mic-no-mo to take a feed from a guitar amp into the desk, so I can tweak the sound for the room through the PA.

It doesn't add any extra noise into the signal chain and has performed flawlessly.

Feels quite sturdy as well. No crackle from the connections or when operating the pots.

Handig mixertje

Handig compacte mixer als je bijvoorbeeld, zoals ik, twee synth's op 1 ingang van een audio interface wil aansluiten. Prima kwaliteit voor z'n prijs. Alleen jammer dat er geen aan/uit schakelaar op zit.

Excellent for the price

I bought the mixer purely so I could plug my PC and my record player into my monitors at the same time. It works flawlessly from the start and I have noticed no change to sound quality, aside from a quiet hissing noise when the volume is cranked without any audio playing. Its completely unnoticable when you're using the mixer so for the price I am happy to let it slide. The item actually surprised me with how good quality it looks and feels, and also how small it was.

Only thing I wish it had was a power toggle switch.

Highly recommend this mixer if you have a low budget.

A Compact Yet Powerful Little Mixer

I bought this mixer to use in my home studio for channeling in a computer, microphone, and occasional instruments as needed. I am very amazed at the amount of head-room available with the channels and the microphone, as well as it's selectable 2-TR to Phones and 2-TR To Mix options. With the flick of a switch I have what I need at my fingertips. The controls are smooth with zero crackle in the Pot's and the overall size of the mixer is perfect for a small studio recording/mixing application. Keep up the great work Behringer

power input is loose and u can expect some noise and brums

Good enough considering the cost

I use this product to gather my guitar and the backgrounds from my computer to the earphones, which works in this case well enough considering the cost. The volume and the gain has a constant background hiss even at relatively low levels. And yes, I know enough not to mess up with the staging order. Turning the treble down from eq helps a little tho. so I can not recommend this product for, e.g. recording anything serious. As for shredding a heavy-stick while having both the backgrounds from your computer and the guitar coming to the earphones in an apartment flat in the middle of the night, totally.

Excellent budget mixer

Bought this as a headphone mixer for my home studio. Need to be able to monitor source signals and playback simultaneously.

This does the job very well. No EQ on the stereo channels but its only for personal monitoring while doing overdubs.

Nice piece of gear and well you cant grumble at the price either.

Greate mixer easy to use

We build a studio for online broadcasting and used this mixer for the audio mixing. Good sound and easy to use.

Great for it's size

Really great product for it's size. Working as expected!

Does what I need it to

Use this for managing in-ear monitors during live gigs and I couldn't ask for any more. They have a load of features I don't need or use but it's grand and it does what it says it does.

Useful

Is a very good mixer. The only one issue I found it, is the power cable. It can get disconnected if cables moves. Because it don't have a screw to connect.

Little useful guy

I bought the little guy because I needed a handy solution for specialized tasks. The size is impressively small and fits in a mini-bag I already had that is about an A5 size. So, if you seek portability, this is DEFINITELY the way to go.

Obviously the I/O at disposal is terribly limited; you will not have XLR out, for example. Not suited for bands, but really helpful in other scenarios like:

- making a personal headphone monitoring mix from various sources

- specializing from above, sending a click to the drummer along with the monitoring

- simple setups like keyboard + voice duos

I even planned to use it as an enhanced monitoring mix when using my in-ear headphones, by blending in direct output from my guitar modeler, monitoring mix and an external ambient microphone to lessen the isolation of in-ears.

An economic but effective mixer for in-ear personal monitoring and for home applications

Let's put it clear: this mixer isn't made to offer sound perfection and high-level clean signals. It's a cheap solutions, but even cheap solutions are useful sometimes.

The Xenyx 502 is quite versatile when used as a personal on-stage mixer for musicians of small bands / amateur projects or for home desktop setups.

It offers a good number of I/O possibilities and the CD/TAPE selector allows you to redirect a source to your headphones only. This can be useful, e.g. for clock tracks.

The noise level is usually low but please consider that some noise could appear when using some I/O combinations. The power is more than good for non-professional applications.

If you are planning to include this mixer in a professional PA setup you would maybe go for better and more expensive products, since audio engineers and service guys will probably start complaining about your mixer. But if you don't need sound perfection and you are searching a budget solution to mix-up things, I strongly reccomend the quality-price ratio of Behringer's products. And Xenyx 502 is no exception.

Please note: I am not saying that the sound quality is unacceptable for making music! The mixer does its job and it *IS* an audio mixer! Just be aware that this is not a professional solution but a serious and effective low budget device.

A nice compact mixer

This is a great little buddy very useful to have on a stage if you are a drummer that uses in-ear monitoring and click at the same time.

The mixer can also be used as a small device on your desktop if you are using speakers, interfaces or even edrums where you can manage the main drums outputs and mix them with a track to play along with, with or without earphones.

The quality/price is great and Behringer is an overall good brand, especially if you are on the budget.

So yes: great mixer, great sound (for the price of course)... I would recommend it.

THE SMALLEST MIXER YOU CAN BUY

I have it next to my drum in my studio recording, it's just perfect for what i need. I have 5 channels

1 - METRONOME

2 - DRUM MIX LEFT

3 - DRUM MIX RIGHT

4 - PLAYBACK LEFT

5 - PLAYBACK RIGHT

so the drummer can choose his own volumes and makes my life much easier! Headphone amp is pretty loud. It's a good product

Perfect mixer for me

This mixer is just the right tool i needed to get the sound from my computer/tablet/phone to my ears without having to turn the volume to the max. I use it at home to pratice, not to record anything. I plug in the source of the sound and just equalize it to my desire. Awesome little mixer.

Great mixer!

Works great. I'm happy with the sound, no complains. Actually we have plenty of them in use, for more than few years, and we haven't experienced any problems yet. We use them as signal conventers, for drummers etc. Power adapter socket can break if you are not that careful, but it doesn't break too easily either.

High quality, great price

I purchased this desk in order to hear my in-ear mix with click tracks and monitor system. The XLR input works great for bigger venues to feed back my mix whereas the jack inputs are just enough if you need a few extra inputs.

The desk itself feels great quality; the sound, controls and inputs all feel very well built.

I've since lost my first one but ordered another one, thats how much I like it.

Great Little Mixer

I've had a few of these over the years and find them reliable and well made. No issues with quality or noise levels, would recommend.

Its a tiny mixer!

Perfectly good enough to throw on a mic, connect some stereo lines and turn things up and down, what more do you need? We use these a lot for basic Mic / line connections to active speakers.