Phonic Helix18 FireWire MKII 18-Channel Mixer

Recording

Phonic

4-Bus Mixers

SKU: PHOHELIX18FWMKII

The Helix Board 18 FireWire is part of the new generation of FireWire mixers from Phonic. The MKII mixer features a FireWire interface that can individually stream up to 16 independent channels of audio to the computer and return two tracks for monitoring, all at screaming fast transfer rates of up to 24-bit/96 kHz with a zero latency. Pre/post switches on each input channel ensure users can adjust the outgoing FireWire signal between a pre fader and post fader signal with the utmost of ease. An onboard 32/40-bit digital multi-effect processor provides 100 popular programs, tap-delay, test tones (pink noise, 1 kHz, etc) and foot switch jacks.

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Reviews

Feature:
does everything i need it to, easy to use. dont like cubse, mainly cause i dont know how to use it, i use magic studio 7

Quality:
shell is metal, great feeling of the faders and knobs. super quality!!!

Value:
similar systems were $200+ above this one cant beat it

Desirability:
its a mixer... sorry but i will say its lived up to my expectations and then some!

Sound:
i used to run sound for a small club and i used my mackie cfx20, we got this for the band to record demos and practice. great sound quality i can say i dont hear a difference bewteen the boards and mind you i paid over $1000 for the mackie when i got it new 10 years ago.

Ease of Use:
super simple! installed drivers and we were recording within 30mins!

Support:
havent used it, but im giving it a nine because the instruction manuel was very easy to read and figure out

Overall:
super great starter into both live sound and recording. ive used much more "sophisticated" equiptment for both and im loveing this machine. but this now!!!