Any one have any experience with the Soundcraft Compact 4/10

Basic Pitch · Post by **Basic Pitch** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 1:52 pm

Hi all,

Well I am in the market for a small mixer, very small actually like 4 channels mainly to controle my monitoring and headphone inputs, I have a 24 channel mackie but these days I rout most everything via adat so sadly my desk gets very little use aside from the last stereo channel which acts as a master fader for monitoring.

I have found this little tiny inexpensive Soundcraft Controle 4 mixer which seems like its the perfect fit for my needs, 4 stereo indepentant channels, (2) headphone inputs, 1 enginner and 1 artist, not channeled soundcard input and record buss (this is nice since it does not take a specific channel for monotoring and truelly unique bussing system simplified as a record routing aswell as phantom power for 2 of 4 channels.

I was just curious if any one has seen or worked with this device before?

Thanks in advance,

Cheers!

Post by **garyb** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 4:40 pm

go for it. it's as good as any at that price and with those features.

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:13 am

The "DI" input facility and the recording outputs seem like a nice touch

Royston

Basic Pitch · Post by **Basic Pitch** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:17 pm

Thanks,

I figure this is prob a nice small mixer for what I need currently as in a small box to controle monitoring input, I have my larg desk but it seems silly to use just 1 channel and have the rest sitting there doing nothing.

Plus I figure if I ever need to use a channel or two for inputs I can since there are 4 and the turntable inputs are quite cool aswell.

One bonus is the dual headphones, that seems like a touch that is typically found on 24 channel + mixers, which works well for me at evenings and low monitoring situations.

I was however considering something like a small mackie but it seems silly to spend 800 bucks on a 8-12 channel onyx just to monitor audio since I am mixing inside the box.

Thanks again.

Cheers!

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:06 pm

Basic Pitch wrote:
One bonus is the dual headphones, that seems like a touch that is typically found on 24 channel + mixers, which works well for me at evenings and low monitoring situations.

Missed that one...extra bonus!

Sounds like somebody's had a think and it's trickled down to the implementation department...most unusual

BingoTheClowno · Post by **BingoTheClowno** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:03 pm

179 Euros is a little steep for such a small mixer. Consider a Yamaha MG series mixer, much cheaper, starting from 8 channels: http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/Con ... 00,00.html.

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Basic Pitch · Post by **Basic Pitch** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:07 pm

I had actually looked at the small yamaha mixers, but I dont really need 8 channels, even though if I did I still have my mackie desk, for right now I just needed something mostly for headphones and monitoring.

Whats interesting though is the specifications on the soundcraft compact series was really designed to be integrated with a DAW since they understand small project studio's or home studios would need the features they provided.

I honestly think they did a great job feature wise, and at 125.00 retail USD its hard to beat this board feature wise.

Cheers!