For 80 Euro, sure! It’s not very high quality but if you keep the volume under control it will sound quite OK, and if not you may get ‘interesting’ distortion. Older and cheaper mixers can be a bit noisy rather than sounding perfectly clean but this isn’t necessarily bad. I just picked up a Mackie 1604 (similar to this one you are looking at) and I very much like the ‘rough’ sound it can add if you turn the EQ to extremes.
Wire the auxiliary sends of the mixer to the inputs of MD and A4, then turn them up slowly and carefully to get interesting feedback effect loops - don’t turn them too high or the feedback will destroy your signal, but a little bit can be wonderful.
I had one for a while, and I quite liked it. It’s definitely worth the price. I ended up getting a “better” mixer which cost me quite a lot more, but I can’t spot the difference between the two, to be honest. Build quality on this new one I have is probably better, but sound quality is about the same.
Hehe, I know how that is! Well, I don’t know, I don’t really think it’s about the gear in the end, you know. If you only have an A4 and an MD then using the OT as a mixer sounds perfect. The less clutter in the sound signal path - the better.
Yeah, another vote for Allen & Heath. I used to have a MixWizard and those are really excellent, the older ones in good condition are often good value and many people feel they are better built than the newer ones. I good a good deal on this Mackie but I would buy another A&H without hestitation if I had the cash/space right now.
zed series are great. best bang for the buck. vote there too.
I have a few various mixers:
1202 mackie… brute force! worked for 3 days in the rain.
10Zed is easy smooth.
alesis 4usb… junk mixer to get multi audio into my computer in the office.
behringer 12 just does… nothing special.