Behringer RX1202FX Rack Mixer

This unit appears to be a near-clone of the alesis multimix 12R, with additional features of added onboard efx and slightly enhanced tape-in routing. For $199 ($100 less than alesis) was worth a shot. In the end, however, I sent it back, though not without hesitation.

Specs look good at first, it's a basic mixer, but read the fine print on S/N ratio. 4/10 rating b/c the fine print quotes the noise floor something like this:
main mix at 0, channels at 0, channels 1,3,5,7 panned L, channels 2,4,6,8 panned R, test signal at +6dBu.

So, they are playing games to "help" their numbers.

Sound quality is surprisingly transparent, like a lot of their gear. Pots are all smooth, consistent. Line-in sources are clean.

The killer for this unit is noise floor. It's pretty bad. At unity gain main mix and single channel they quote 77dB. BUT the fine print states that four of the 8 channels are panned hard L, the other hard R. If you've got 5 mics open at unity, there's a good bit of hiss and a touch of 60hz. This isn't going to work with any kind of decent amp on the other end of it, and the 4-segment LED meter is too crude for dialing levels in for optimal settings to get around the noise problem.

For one or two srcs at a time, it's fine.

It's a shame it's so noisy because it could be a great product. The EFX are surprisingly useful for anyone who takes the time to figure them out. It's small, has 8 inserts... small 3-4 pc bands could actually upgrade from the shoebox pwrd mixer, add channel compression, dedicated efx and keep it all in one rack... The features it has are nice (for what it is) on paper. And it's 67% the cost of the only other market offering.

I sent it back. Exchanged for the alesis. Behringer has it's place and I've had good service from *some* of their products. But even for what I paid the noise makes it so very limited it what it can do... it went back-- I'm buying the alesis instead.

This board is worth $100. no more. fix the noise, really fix it, and it's worth 200. Add PFL and mute, it's worth $275.

12 Channel rack mixer with built in effects

Sound quality was what I expected from Behringer, it's actually suprising how good their audio equipment is factoring in the price.

Has a good amount of usefulness, as long as it all works

This is a great idea if you need this sort of thing, which we did. We considered the Alesis 12R but it was 100.00 more so we gave the Behringer a shot since we have used their gear previously. Needless to say the 100.00 more for the Alesis would be well spent. As I type this I am preparing to return the 2nd Behringer RX1202FX to the store. The first unit started making a pulsing noise when using the onboard effects (which suck with an uncompromising vacuum) so we didn't use them. You had to turn the "FX" knob all the way off to stop the noise so your effects loop was null.... big problem. So we returned it and received another new one. The 2nd unit powered up with no effects at all.... no program number light or anything. We shut it off and back on and the unit began to flash and send out an ear spliting screetching pulse in sync with the flashing effect light. Turning the effects knob did nothing, just flashing the same number until I pushed the effects button down and the whole thing shut down. It was pretty funny to see but sad... since I have been jacking with this for 2 weeks. We will not be replacing this or buying any more Behringer devices. Save yourself the grief and buy the Alesis, there is a reason it weighs 2 lbs. more than the Behringer.