Hi folks I'm just looking for a small, portable, affordable mixer for looping based live stereo setup with active PA. I kind of liked the Soundcraft Compact 4 Mixer. First, the Compact 4/10 are setup for recording, so sound quality shouldn't be too bad. And especially, what I liked is the fact that the whole setup sort of has two stereo Aux busses with stereo routing to Play/Record/Monitor outputs. Drawback on the Compact 4 seem to be the Chinch inputs (yuck). But I have quite a few high quality Instrument-to-Chinch cables left over I could use. I don't need it at all for recording. I would just use it for live situations. The alternative is to get the Soundcraft Compact 4 versus Tapco Blend 6 What do you think? Any good? Do you think I can use the Monitor Out feature in "Mono" mode to send a sterea signal sum to a mono FX? Here is the web page: http://www.soundcraft.com/product_sheet.asp?product_id=121 Here is a good picture (1MB): http://www.soundcraft.com/download.asp?filename=images/products/product_sheet/compact/compact_4_10_front_high.jpg Here is a SoundOnSound Review of Compact 4: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul04/articles/soundcraftcompact.htm Tapco Blend 6 Mixer for Comparison: http://www.tapcoworld.com/products/blend6/index.html Rgds Buzap -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer
