Behringer Xenyx X1204 USB 4-stars Reviews

Good for the price

It delivers, good mixer for the price. Effects are quite ok.

Small & Cheap

I never needed a bigger mixer. It does the job. it a bit complicated to handle but once you get a hold of its features is ok. Quality build is good, i like the rack securing features it has. Best for budget.

nice features but I need more EQ options

I'm using this mixer in live situations of 2-3 people in small bars and cafes. It does the job very well for the price. The control room features are very nice to have and help me a lot even though when I bought it I didn't think much about them. The same applies to the 3-4 outs, which turned out to be very useful when I needed weird routing of the outputs. The AUX out with pre-fade switch is a great tool for creating a monitor mix. The low-cut is another nice thing to have

Now the negatives.

I really miss having a knob for setting the middle EQ frequency. Sometimes I can't fix muddiness problems in vocals or harsh instruments because of this.

Another thing missing is the ability to EQ the FX, because the built-in hall reverb I'm using sometimes produces long reverberation on some frequencies that need taming, but I don't want to lower all of the effect.

Finally, I would like to be able to have more control over the compressor, because sometimes I need to lower the threshold without raising the volume as much as it does. Sometimes you have a quiet player who needs a lot of compression in order to sound steady, but then you have to turn the gain really low.

I have also used this mixer as an audio interface to record and mix songs at home. When I bought it I wanted one single device to do both things (live music and audio interface). The sound is okay I guess, but you can get much more clarity from a 24-bit audio interface like the UMC HD series.

Overall, If I was buying now, I would go for a digital mixer because it would give me more control over each channel, mainly more EQ options on each channel, the FX, and the master out.

Overall is good

For this price you get a mixer and a sound interface which is really cheap.

The Fx sounds are good not amazing but it does the work for me while I am playing the saxophone at live gigs.

The handling of the mixer while recording is quite irritating that you have to press the red buttons to record and then press the other one to listen.

Eq is just ok.

Overall is compact easy to use and carry to gigs and also have it on your desk as a studio (practise) audio interface.

Useful and easy to handle!

... is a classic mixer, very useful and easy to handle. The effects processor is doing his job honestly. Very good price / quality ratio.

Good deal

It is a good deal, strong build and really efficient.

Pretty good mixing desk/audio interface

The only fault I can find is that it only has 2 channels out as a digital interface. More would be very useful and seeing as it already has main out, alt out and monitor out it seems strange that Behringer decided not to make them assignable in your DAW.

Good mixer

I bought the mixer for some home recording. It is very handy. Three knobs of frequencies adjustments give you a good clear sound ( I mean for the price you pay for the mixer the sound is all right ). Build in effects are nice and in case you need to change the time of echo there is a button "Tap". The minus of the mixer is: when you press the button "Mute the channel" instead of redirecting the sound to the sub group Alt 3/4 it still sends about 10% of the sound to the main outputs when the sound should be only on the Alt 3/4 outputs.

Decent mixer for the price.

Really decent product for the price, friends did advise other units but I just couldn't justify the cost difference, Behringer for me is a good name.

Great value mixing desk

We've been using this mixing desk for a couple of years now for both live work and the occasional recording session.

As it was our first mixing desk the array of controls was a little daunting but you soon get used to the layout and reading the manual helps a lot!

For live work it works as you would expect and easy to operate (after the initial learning curve). The effects haven't had much use but can be useful if playing in an acoustically dead room.

For recording the USB output works well and uses standard drivers so it's easy to get it up and running with your DAW. Being able to output to more than one channel would be handy but for basic recordings it works well.

xenyx x1204 usb mixer!

an excellent product!! i loved it,a super desk to start off with some mixing or internet radio and song recording the USB function is great it always delivered an excellent sound!the sound effects were handy and a bit of fun to mess around with

No buyers remorse

I needed something with USB support, and to be able to hook up a few instruments at the same time. So I went with this one.

It supports 12 inputs, so I like to have one for each instrument/cable and set up the track so it's always the same. Has 4 mic inputs which would be handy, if I had more mics to use with it.

The built in effects are a nice addition. I don't have much use for them though, except for a bit of reverb on bass and vocals. Same with the auxiliary sends/receives but I have used them once or twice, they are handy when you've the need.

Hooking up via USB is the easiest way for me to record. Only problem is it only supports 2 lines at a time, meaning you can only record, say, a guitar by Mic and DI, or vocals with a guitar and still have the different tracks separate in your software.

It's simple enough to figure out how to use if you've not much experience with mixing desks, just play around with everything and you'll soon get the hand of it.

The case on mine was a slight bit warped when I got it, nothing too drastic, it's just a little wobbly but you don't notice it that much. All the sliders and knobs work smoothly and the buttons work as they should.

I've recorded vocals, electric & acoustic guitar, bass, keyboards and some more and it was pretty much plug and play the whole time.

Overall a really handy mixing desk. Does what it should, and then some.

Simple but good value

This does everything you'd expect and is great for basic mixing. Extremely good value compared to comparable products available!