Customer Reviews

ALESIS MultiMix 8USB Audio Mixer

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We have been using one of these mixers for more than 18 months now with no problems - it is a great starter mixer at a great price. It is the mixer recommended by the authors of the Podcast Solutions book - one of the first books on podcasting.

You should keep in mind the limitations though - while you can have a number of inputs, the USB connection is going to mix everything down into a single track when it outputs. This means that you can't do post production editing on individual tracks. If you want to do this, you should look at the firewire version of this mixer.

Otherwise, it is a great starter box and has been very reliable. Highly recommended.

It seems to work ok unless you need to put the sound through the USB. Once you do so, there's a high pitched noise and hiss that will come through on recordings. I Googled this issue, and it seems to be a common problem, especially on desktop computers. Laptops seem to have better luck. Apparently, there is a grounding issue with the USB. Aside from the high pitched noise and hiss, I couldn't get my bass to sound decent through the mixer. It sounded great on the headphones on the mixer but sounded awful after going through USB despite trying a myriad of settings. I am currently trying to return this.

I bought this on a recommendation from a friend. First I noticed over at his house a high pitched hiss when we were playing around with his setup. I thought at the time maybe this was something in his computer somewhere.

Then I got mine, and lo and behold, the same problem! This hiss only occurs through the USB interface. When I ran it through an M-Audio Mobile Pre USB, no hiss. I Googled this and there are numerous reports of people having this problem. This is not an isolated incident. I don't do many Amazon reviews. I only take the time to do this one to say "buyer beware."

So if you are looking to use the USB interface, consider another product, because you are just going to have to sink another $30-$100 on an audio interface to connect to your PC. If you don't need USB, this seems like a perfectly fine mixer. It just annoys me to buy a something only to find that one of its main features is completely broken.

I bought this little disappointment. Yea, it's great, until you discover that the "Delay" selections are a big, fat, rip off!

You have 10 different selections of "Delay" as they call it, nowadays. What ever happened to the word "echo", it means a repeat of your voice when you say something, no matter if its repeated once, twice or more. Why do they call it "Delay"? Anyone remember the good ole "Echo plex", used in the 70's?

Well...for some stupid reason, Alesis decided to give the buyer three of the same "Delay" settings out of 3 of the ten "Delay" settings you have on the board. Most of the "Delay" settings are worthless, by the way. Instead of providing "Delay" that has longer delay between sounds made, you get everything *BUT*!

Example? I wanted to be able to say a word (let's use the word "Danger", for example)and hear the entire word, repeated, or "Echoed". What you hear out of the word "Danger" is "ger...ger...ger". The first syllable is left off!

Even if you are looking for something cheap, save your money and don't bother. Its a big disappointment.

I've had this mixer for nearly 5 years now. It's really simple to use, I love it. I have recorded many projects with this Alesis recorder. For the money is also great.

I have had this recorder for about a year now, it's really great. I enjoyed recording my band, and all of my friends bands. It can connect to a bunch of different programs. I have used Adobe Audition with this, but I love using Logic on the mac with this recorder. Anyway, it's really smooth, it does a fine job recording any vocal, drum, amp, or what have you with the right mics. 5 stars

This mixer is terrible. I have had two of them. The first one I bought worked for the first day then it didn't the next day. Okay..I thought. Maybe it was a fluke...a manufacturer's defect. I sent it off to Alesis and they sent me a new one. Same thing happened. I got it on a Friday night. I plugged it in on Friday, and Saturday morning it didn't work when I booted my cpu up. Now unless there is some insane trick that I have to do to get this to work, this mixer only works one time on the first day. If you buy one, don't turn your computer off. Don't turn the mixer off. As a matter of fact don't go to sleep or else it might stop working.

I should have bought the Behringer.