r/livesoundgear • u/Such-Mind-7039 • 8d ago
Help!!
Hey everyone,
We’re looking to upgrade the mixer at our church and I’d love some advice from people with real-world live sound experience.
Right now we use a very basic Vento 16-channel mixer. It has actually worked okay for us, but one of the channels already died after only around 4 months, so we want something more reliable and with more channels.
Our setup is:
- 2 electric guitars
- bass
- drums
- keyboard/piano
- 4 vocalists
We mainly do live worship services, no serious studio recording. We want something:
- simple and plug-and-play
- easy for volunteers to use
- reliable for weekly church use
- enough channels and auxes for growth
We were originally considering a Mackie ProFX22v3, but it’s almost twice the price of the Behringer Eurodesk SX2442FX where we live.
The Behringer seems to offer:
- more channels
- 4 aux sends
- subgroups
- dual FX for a much lower price.
But I keep reading mixed opinions online about reliability and sound quality.
For our use case, would the Mackie actually be worth the extra money? Or would the Eurodesk already be a big enough upgrade from what we currently have?
Right now reliability, simplicity, and being able to immediately see and fix problems on the mixer itself are more important to us than advanced features.
Thanks!
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u/Emergency-Drawer-535 8d ago
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