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For my live setup, I use a single-channel combo amp to monitor my keyboard and microphone signals before it hits the board, so I can control my own monitoring levels. This has gotten kind of byzantine with using a combination of a line mixer, mic preamp, and DIs. I'm hoping to toss all these out with a good small mixer with a pre-fader aux out. I'm looking for something small enough to fit in my gig bag, and it doesn't need many channels (4 at most), but I'd be willing to pay for one with quality preamps.
Almost nothing on the market seems to fit my needs. Few low-channel mixers have aux sends, and most that do are post-fader for FX (no need), and usually have crappy preamps. I could move up to something like a small SoundCraft, which would be fine, but gets a little large to fit in my gig bag. I'd prefer pots to faders, because I can set them and not worry about them shifting between gigs... plus they make the unit smaller.
Anyone know of anything that fits this description? My price range is probably $100-$300... partially because I have yet to see anything above $300 that isn't way too big and overkill for my needs. If someone comes at me with a tiny box for $400 that does exactly what I want it to, I'd be down.
Almost nothing on the market seems to fit my needs. Few low-channel mixers have aux sends, and most that do are post-fader for FX (no need), and usually have crappy preamps. I could move up to something like a small SoundCraft, which would be fine, but gets a little large to fit in my gig bag. I'd prefer pots to faders, because I can set them and not worry about them shifting between gigs... plus they make the unit smaller.
Anyone know of anything that fits this description? My price range is probably $100-$300... partially because I have yet to see anything above $300 that isn't way too big and overkill for my needs. If someone comes at me with a tiny box for $400 that does exactly what I want it to, I'd be down.