Got mine today. I plan to use it live in my duo: vocals, acoustic guitar, Boss RC-600 (mainly for looping beats), Boss OC-5, and electric guitar. I’m just hoping it’s powerful enough to drive our powered speakers. We’re both using preamps for vocals and guitars, so it should be fine since we can always boost the signal from our preamps. However, I’m a bit concerned about getting a clear sound without clipping.
I saw this mixer and thought it’d be perfect for recording gigs. I also got a Zoom Q2n-4K video camera to mix the camera audio with the recorded audio for some room noise. The picture quality is better on an iPhone, but this little camera is so easy to set and forget. Plus, it has a wide lens, so even if it’s placed right next to the mic stand, it picks up the whole stage.
If you have powered speakers then power should not be of concern, since its standard balanced out. The amplification happens in the speaker if it’s an active one.
Clean sound should not be a problem, but we read in this thread of somebody that had clipping, so let’s hope it was a faulty unit.
Yeah, an iPhone might have a better camera but is also a way bigger pain if it gets stolen/destroyed.
It would be really cool to have some option to combine them to single stereo aux pair.
Btw., anyone care to check if it’s case/knobs are covered in soft touch TPE material? I’ve read horror stories of this thing disintegrating on some older Zoom devices…
I’m very curious about this for running a little portable setup but would love to hear opinions/tests on the overall sound quality…
I use a MOTU 16a in my main studio, which felt like a huge upgrade from the Scarlett that I had before. The difference was night and day on both my Neumann KH310s and my smaller Genelec 8020s and I know that the MOTU M4 has tested really well on that Audioscience review forum (post here). That’s what I was considering getting before I saw this being released…
I suspect the Zoom, considering its price point, probably won’t be quite as good but I’m really hoping to be proven wrong
Was eyeing this but realised i probably don’t need the portability or track recording feature. Im considering a Behringer Umc1820 as users say its good enough and has all the ins and puts i need
If the umc1820 really seems like it’s enough then 100%, this is not.
I would honestly lack EQ, balance, send FX… But if you just want to gain and record into a pc this is the better deal.
For me the multitrack, recording is the plus’s, the capable small footprint mixer, multi in interface and midi controllable (auto planing/tremolo with a sequencer during jamming).
It’s less performance capable then others since you need to switch to the function and can’t chance for example filter and balance at the same time… Except if you have something like a digitakt and set a channel up for especially that, or have a midi controller that you set up to control the important parameters.
But for quick jams this seems to be THE solution.
Setup is fast, no pc needed, and you can record it if something good comes up, and mix/sample it later in the DAW if you like it.
So if all of those things are irrelevant, this is overkill.
Just curious…how do you have the return send configured? I don’t see that you’re using the aux input. I’m planning to get this and no videos go into more than a half hearted mention of using an external FX box.
Got my live board all wired up and had a bit of time to mess with the L6. I guess my official review would be, “It’s…ok.”
Clever layout to jam so many features into such a small device.
Super easy and intuitive to use.
EQ’s sound decent.
Not sure about the Comp yet. Will have to try it with a wider variety of sounds.
The biggest drag for my use is; I’ve been using the headphone amp out on the MPC One+ and it doesn’t sound all that great. It’s also tied to the master volume. Was hoping the L6 would solve that problem but it kinda sounds like ass.
Really not thrilled about that, but it’s still a cool compact mixer, I suppose
I seem to be more fussy than many regarding headphone amps, so take it with a grain of salt. Live, I’ve been using a set of KRK 8400’s which are pretty decent. I also checked the headphone amp on my Grados, which I’m fond of, but the Zoom headphone amp sounded pretty bad to me on those as well. I’ll triple check with my Sony MDR 7506 headphones tomorrow
