Comments about Alesis MultiMix 4 USB Compact Mixer:

This mixer is great for someone that needs 1-4 inputs and 1-2 outputs. It's very well built, well labelled, and well designed. I literally plugged it in, downloaded ASIO4ALL, and it wourked great. No machine hum or noise- the only noise I hear is from my condenser mic picking up static. The phantom power doesn't even add hum.
Highly recommended... I've used this with Ableton, Mixcraft, and Audacity with no problems whatsoever. And to top it all, it's SUPER cheap!

Comments about Alesis MultiMix 4 USB Compact Mixer:

This is a nice unit for the price. The only real drawback is the static that is very obvious when you are recording with the USB 1.0 interface. This can be fixed pretty easily with proper software and drivers.

That being said, this is a great unit for my home studio. It does what I need it to when I want to put vocals on a track or record some ideas.

Comments about Alesis MultiMix 4 USB Compact Mixer:

First off, it's a small profile mixer. Has a good amount of useful gain on tap, I haven't run into a situation where I need more than it provides.

Phantom power with preamps is clean even in a noisy, electrically-cluttered environment. Not tripped up by having other devices on the same circuit.

The only real con is the old-school wall-wart plugin. Come on guys, give us something inline or at least a slim wart that fits power strips.

Also, the phantom power button is in an awkward space, I could see it being turned on and off at bad times.

Didn't bother with the instructions, I already had ASIO4ALL installed for other USB devices and it worked just fine. It plays well with my fender Mustang amp's USB in, the Roland GR-55 USB in, etc. No conflicts or problems in both the ancient Traction 3 and Reaper.

A solid buy for compact mixers that need phantom power. Nothing fancy, nothing excessive, just a working two channel preamp/mixer. I say 2 channel because let's face it, the 3/4 channel mixer works but it's limited to a point of laughability - and because the USB out is two channel only.

This doesn't take away from the overall usefullness of the thing though.

Comments about Alesis MultiMix 4 USB Compact Mixer:

Easy to use and works very well with my minomal set up. Just a Mac, a guitar and an amp with this device and I was able to get some great recordings!
Only complaint is one of the knobs is very loose, but functional

Comments about Alesis MultiMix 4 USB Compact Mixer:

I bought this little bad boy to convert a bunch of jam session cassettes to digital format for some buddies of mine. This setup is pretty bare bones but it's exactly what I needed and the price was awesome. Sound quality isn't perfect, but if you're just looking to throw together some demos and are lacking in funds and equipment, the problems aren't impossible to work around. The small size is pretty convienient too, pair it up with a laptop, grab a couple mics and you got yourself a portable mini studio! If you're looking for something professional, you should make the investment and get some higher quality gear, but if you're looking for something cheap to capture ideas, this thing is crazy convienient and will get the job done without busting your wallet.

Comments about Alesis MultiMix 4 USB Compact Mixer:

Over all - good but does not meet 'my' needs. To record more than 2 tracks at at time. I need one that I can record myself, and 2 other guys during practice and or writing songs. But, for one person who needs an AI and doesn't mind layering then it is good. Over all, thumbs up in my opinion
For the price the AI works well. I use Reaper for my DAW and had no difficulties getting it to work. The only thing is that is USB 1.1 - even though Alesis USB 1.1 and "higher" it only records 2 tracks at the same time. If you need to record > 2 then this won't work. Look for USB 2.0 to do this. For recording only person and layering tracks it works fine.
I think the construction is tough - metal box and the knobs seem to be ok.
Good value. I think it's better than higher priced AI's from the other guys (M-Audio) for example. for < $80 it works

Comments about Alesis MultiMix 4 USB Compact Mixer:

A great little unit for a great little price. I would highly recommend this.
The Alesis MultiMix4 Compact USB mixer is a really nice unit, and I'm glad I purchased it. For instance, I was able to take a drum track that I already had from a studio session, add in two tracks of bass and a guitar and then some vocals and produced an interesting and well engineered song in just a couple of hours. It took a little time getting used to it, but once I got it to work (my DAW software is new to me as well) it was effortless. I could do it now in minutes. I also used it to record a whole practice session with my band and was able to produce a demo cd the next day. There was NO noise or hum or any weird effects, it just works perfectly. I keep on being amazed at it's versatillity. For instance, I can play any song from my library through it. It automatically grabs the audio from my Windows Media Player and routes it through the headphone jack, Then I can record my own tracks seperately, while listening to that or a click track, etc. Also, I could record a live performance in stereo, or use it with powered speakers as a live mixer, with the seperate headphone output for monitors. I am using a 3-year old laptop with a 1 ghz AMD dual core cpu, Windows Vista and Reaper DAW. January 27, 2012. I

Comments about Alesis MultiMix 4 USB Compact Mixer:

Good buy. Recommended
This is a fine mixer for a small studio wanting to do live streaming or podcasts. Great audio quality and the needed controls, gain, eq, etc. to make it very veratile.
Built very well. Good solid feel. Controls are good quality.
I found no other USB mixer in this price range that was 4 channel and with the features.

Comments about Alesis MultiMix 4 USB Compact Mixer:

Good product.
There are a lot of bad reviews for the Multimix USB mixers because of a very noticeable buzz/hum that's constantly present on all channels. DO NOT select the standard "USB Audio Codec" as your audio device, despite what the instruction manual says. This is a bad codec and it is the source of the unwanted buzz. Instead, download a free ASIO audio codec (I recommend ASIO4ALL, go to asio4all.com) and select this as your primary audio codec in your recording software. From there you can go into the ASIO options and find the "USB Audio Codec" (your Alesis Multimix). This will eliminate the noise.

Other than the above, it's a great board at a great price and I would highly recommend this as your home recording interface versus an overpriced 1 channel M-Audio interface. Works great with Reaper--a free Digital Audio Workstation that is head and shoulders above ProTools.
They need to fix the inherent noise issue, but at least there's a work around.
Fantastic value considering what you get. This price for this 4 channel USB board that can be used for both digital recording and live audio. Those silly M-Audio interfaces that come with a watered-down version of ProTools cost anywhere from two to three times as much. Buy this instead.

Comments about Alesis MultiMix 4 USB Compact Mixer:

I had high hopes but every track I record with the mulimix 4 USB creates a hiss that makes the final music product very poor. After recording four tracks from mics, guitar, bass and piano, the hiss was about a third of the volume. Alesis does not respond to email and calling them can keep you waiting until just can't wait any longer... more than an hour. I was very disappointed.