Conference napalm::commusic_v1

    Hi,
    
    I recently picked up a used Peavey XR-800 powered mixer. It's an eight
    channel stereo mixer with about 150-200W per side. It has left/right
    (A/B in Peavey land) 9 band EQ's. Each channel has pan, monitor,
    effects, 3 band eq, input, level. 
    
    I use it for my keyboards and drum machine, mostly in my house, I
    would not hesitate to take it out for live work if needed however.
    I also feed my casset deck and reel to reel deck directly from it.
    And have a digital reverb in the effects loop.
    
    I paid $350 for it and it's in excellent condiditon, I had been looking
    at mixers only in the 400-500 range when I saw this it struck me as a
    bargin. 
    
    PS: I have 2 Acoustic 126 bass amps and I agree thay are "work horses"
    I use them for left hand keyboard bass ( driven off a360 Systems
    MIDIbass) and they have been holding up real good. For small gigs I use
    one self contained with it's own power amp, on large gigs, I drive them
    with a peavey cs-400, no major problems so far.
    
    Good luck, I searched quite a while before finding the 800, but they
    are out there.
    
    Gary Ryan
    

    I second the Peavy XR (800, 1200) series. They have everything you're
    looking for and more (Busses, FX, EQ) and, if bought used are generally
    a good deal.
    
    Edd

  Never seen one of these, is it rack-mountable?  If so,  # spaces, etc?

  If not, could anyone recommend a rack-mountable alternative??

  Thanks.

-Tom

I currently use a Biamp Rackmax 12-channel board, but it's not 
powered. I purchased a Crown PB-2 power amp to power it. Together, 
they both fit in a 12-space rack (the board takes up 10 spaces). Biamp 
may make a powered board as well; it's worth checking out.

The Rackmax has 12 input channels (low and high impedance), 2 effects 
loops, a monitor loop, 3-band EQ (not parametric, I'm afraid), and an 
optional integral digital reverb (I didn't get this option because I 
already have an SRV-2000.)

Hill Multimix also makes rack-mountable boards - you might want to 
check into these.

I've been extremely happy with the Biamp board - I've been gigging 
steadily with it for a year now (about 45 gigs), and I've never had a 
problem with it. If I remember correctly, it was about $1500-1600 for 
the board and power amp.

-Dan

    
    If you'reDJ'ing with vinyl, you'll need phono preamps. There are
    several SR boards with phono preamps, Ramsa, Allen-Heath-Brenell,
    and Tascam to name a few. However, none are powered. If you use CD
    and/or tape only then this is of no concern.
    
    My favorite small self contained board is the E-V Entertainer. 100W/ch
    in stereo or the two channels can be routed for main/monitor. EQ on
    each side, and built in limiting. Built rock solid but easy to carry
    around.
    
    CdH
    

    Ayup, when my friend and I DJ, we use his Radio Shack mixer for the
    turntables and cd player, with an rca to 1/4" plug going from the
    Radio Shack mixer (L and R) to two inputs on the 8 channel amp/mixer
    we have been renting (the Acoustic Model), then we just pan left on
    one channel and pan right on the other channel.  We run the mikes
    directly to the amp/mixer.  This setup works good.
    
    Mark
    
    Thanks so far to all the responses.  Please keep the info coming!

    
    	Are there any amplified/mixers out there to say hook up a keyboard
    and a module and maybe a tape input and also have tape output that
    would list somewhere around $150-200?
    
    
    Kevin (who_is_looking_for_cost_effective_first_time_setup)
    
    P.S.  Aren't we all.