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Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2025
I've been searching the internet high and low for a mixing solution for both my old spare cheap electret mic (I still got the mic from a very old Sound Blaster kit) and some decent quality P2 omnidirectional condenser and wired lavalier mics, all at once, without having to use 48V Phantom Power (I know there are some converters that use Phantom and I totally avoid them for now). This very small device did deliver on its promises. It handled the signal of all the mentioned mics quite well. The amplification is not that significative - I use this mixer plugged into my smartphone for compact and on-the-go videomaking and as environment sound capture in recordings using my audio interface. When I use it with the interface and mono XLR adapter, I need to put some mic preamp gain, the mixer output is still weak. Still haven't tested it with stereo (2x XLR connectors). As for the USB energy requirements, you can use this device with a laptop USB port without any issues, tested on a Windows laptop and a Macbook Air using a USB hub. But if you want total mobility, I can say it worked with my power bank, can't guarantee it will work with any power bank, and also due to current differences I still wouldn't recommend it with a power bank for everyone. A laptop USB connection is safe. A 5V 500mA wall power converter does work quite well, I recommend that because it does require a 500 mA current. Now for the cons: I did miss a manual (so I had to figure out how to adapt it to my smartphone input, and I am taking the power requirements very strictly - because I don't know how resilient this device is if I don't follow them totally), no package box, it is delivered as-is. Mail envelope is cushioned though, so I assume the package is still ok. I miss a main output volume knob, so you'll have to balance the mic volumes individually. If it had digital multitrack capabilities it would be a perfect and fully capable audio interface for people who don't want to throw their electret and wired lavalier mics away. So there is my suggestion.
David Taber
Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2023
This little (and I mean little) mixer is designed for use only with condenser microphones (the kind you'd normally plug into your PC or laptop) that require 5 Volts to run...it will not work with more professional condenser mics that need 12 or 48 Volts.That said, this mixer does a fine job of mixing and amplifying the condenser mic signals. I haven't checked out its signal/noise ratio or frequency response, but it seems fine. Each mic input has an independent volume control, but there is no master output control (so if everything is too loud or too soft, you change all the input volume controls accordingly). A pleasant surprise: it has a STEREO output, no mono. So mics 1 and 3 go on the left and 2 and 4 go on the right: if you want to change the "location" of a mic, you swap the input channel you use.It also has a little blue LED to indicate power -- a nice touch that you'd expect, but wouldn't always be there.
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