Yamaha MG12 XU Reviews

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Best for money

it sounds very good.. nice desing. everything is ok..

Best price-quality

Yamaha one brand one goal !

Affordable, secure and precise. Good sound. No compromise. Surely i'll buy another product from Yamaha from this series !

A solid mixer ! Worth every penny at a real price.

I searched high and low for a mixer, including reading articles and asking questions. The Yamaha MG12XU, filtered down to just what I wanted.

A straight to the point mixer. I have 2 Synthesizers and an MPC X connected to the mixer and straight into monitor speakers.

This mixer is as straight forward as you could wish a mixer to be. Also it can be connected to a computer via USB, and you can connect another mixer to it should you not have enough channels.

Build quality is solid, and the layout is clear and concise. Just read the specs, I have made mistakes with purchases in the past. But not this one.

RECOMMENDED !!!!!!!!

Over all very good mixer

The quality of the preamps is shocking good, after you get used to this mixer, you will love it

Great little mixer

Cannot fault this little mixer, easy to use,quick to set up, I use it for a 3/4 piece acoustic band, (excluding drums), guitar,fiddle,bass and 2 vocal mics, I have even added keyboards on 2 occasions and it worked a treat, sounded great and easily coped with all the various inputs. Sound quality is good, its a well made and robust little machine and the effects are great too. It also has 24 bit usb connection so good quality recording straight from the mixer and also has a couple of mic inputs enabled with phantom. All in all a cracking little mixer,

A mixer from Yamaha

As can be expected from a product of Yamaha it is a quality product which functions as advertised.

Everything I bargained for

I love this mixer. Clean and easy to work with. I would like it to be able to record separate channels a DAW, but still worth it.!

What can I say? Will turn even an amateur into a credible "DJ"!! Easy to use, just enough for a small band... Very portable... Durable... Yamaha quality at an extremely reasonable price. Just fantastic. Has all the bells & whistles you would want if you are starting out but even pros would be happy with it in a pinch. Great product.

best mixer

great item,value for money...you can use it for any live.

Yamaha MG12 XU

For that price you ca't buy anything better, excellent product for connnecting multi speakers, i use it with two amps and also aux for extra mono sub amp and monitor outputs for 2 extra monitors, compressors are just ok but for that money they are the best. The sound is mid to good, clear sound but not sweet sound. for events as DJ is Excellent, for live sound is good enough for the price.

Well built, Does the job

I mainly use this mixer as a solo singer/guitarist fort live shows. For most of my work I could use a desk with less channels but I also work in a duo and sometimes with other musicians as well so I need the extra channels.

This is a well built piece mixer although it manages to feel both sturdy and cheap at the same time which is odd.

Sound wise it's a bit toppy, in my opinion, although now I've got used to rolling off top end on everything as a matter of course I find it's got a clean transparent sound.

The onboard FX do the job but I use an external reverb for Mics anyway so I haven't really worked with them, only messed about with them.

Over all I'll happily use this desk until circumstances force a change but I'll never love it.

What a great sounding mixer and sound card!

When I bought my DAW I first used a cheap M-Audio interface that had no latency but didn't have a great mic pre-amp. I later upgraded to a Scarlett 18i20, and while it sounded better, it had HORRIBLE latency. No matter what I did it was nothing but trouble. I researched to no end and finally found an engineer to recommended using a mixer.

I had researched the Yamaha MG12XU 12-Channel Mixer because I wanted to create a live performance outfit, and so since I needed a mixer to reduce latency, and the Yamaha was inexpensive and had good reviews, I bought it.

I can't believe how much better it sounds. One of the issues with the Scarlett was lack of compression in the input signal chain prior to the sound card. The dynamics were so great it was hard to get a good sound. The onboard compressors in the Yamaha really help control the sound and, combined with the fantastic pre-amps, I am stunned by the difference in the quality of sound I get on acoustic guitars and vocals. My microphones all sound 10x better than they did before.

As for latency...WHAT LATENCY? It is amazing.

great, simply great

i use the 10 channels version too

and it's great. As i said for the 10 ch version, you'll be surprised by the quality of effects and by the clear sound you can reach.

Great hardware, connects what you need

Yamaha has great quality and design, and this product is an excellent example of something very useful, but also an engineering work of art. It makes fun work of connecting instruments, amps, PA, in mono and stereo, inputs and outputs, mixing, and USB to the computer. Compared to the lower price competion, it's simply built better and the design is hands down the winner. Sound is clean on guitar and vocals, and the FX works well, applied as you like to each channel. Every feature tried, and there are lots of them, has worked well.

Most musicians will want the USB of the XU and the faders, a good break from all the knob twiting you'll be doing. So the MG12 XU is the minimum you'll want, and likely all you'll need. Perhaps a 16 or 20 for a larger band, but for 1-4 members, it should do the trick. It works well in the studio and on the road. Rugged and portable, you'll want a travel case and some larger laptop cases will work fine. Just pad the knobs and faders, and you're off and running.

I only knocked a star off the features because of the bundled software, an outdated version of Cubase. It takes too much time to use, and while professional, it's a limited feature version, and it's AI interface is decades old. There are many better, easier to use products out there, for example Garage Band on the Mac is much easier and faster to use, and you're not handicapped by installing it on only one PC. Most touring musicians will want a desktop for recording at home/ studio, and a laptop for the road. Can't use Cubase then. I sent a simple message to Steinberg product support, and it was 2-3 weeks before they responded with a non helpful answer.

But sticking to the Yamaha hardware, it's fantastic. Perhaps Yamaha will catch on and supply their own software. Just don't buy it for Cubase. Happy mixing!

Another winner for Yamaha

I have owned the Yamaha MG series mixers ever since the first model series, and I have always loved them for their no-nonsense, clear and intuitive designs, very good connectivity for a mixer it's size and overall great quality, and the new MG series is by far the best. Virtually every complaint I had about the previous models has been addressed in this one.

Handling is very good, easy to use, clear and simple outline. Not too heavy, not too light. Faders feel nice, knobs give good feedback. And they finally built the PSU inside the mixer! That was my biggest complaint to Yamaha for the previous ones, and also the weakest link as I have had to replace quite a few PSU-s over the years.

The features are plentiful: you get compression, effects, digital interface and a good sounding analogue EQ on a single 12-channel board. A few other mixers offer the one-knob compression, but I have not seen one that sounds so good. The effects are useable. Routing options are quite ample for aa mixer this size. The EQ sounds very nice, however it would be perfect if they would have added a sweepable mid band like on its bigger brothers. Setting up the digital interface with my iPad was effortless and only took a driver installation to work perfectly on a Win7 PC.

The new preamps sound definately better than the old ones. Also, the built-in DAC seems to be a quality one. Overall, the board sounds very good. Period.

As is customary for Yamaha, the build quality is immaculate. The chassis is metal again, although the sides are still plastic. Still, it looks sturdy and a good compromise between weight and durability. As with the previous models, I have no doubt that it will serve for a long time.

All in all, highly recommended and very versatile board.