Is this my DREAM MIXER?! - Soundcraft Signature 12 MTK Unboxing & Mini-Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ส.ค. 2018
- I may have finally found my dream audio mixer - the Soundcraft Signature 12 MTK (Multitrack). This bad boy features less inputs than the Behringer mixers I was using, but has one secret power: Every input and output stereo pair is a dedicated, registered USB audio device in Windows. No singular multi-channel device, all separate devices that can be accessed in any application. Is this the PERFECT mixer?!
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Finally a proper review of this series
Been loving mine for almost 2 years... Awesome board that has done absolutely everything I've asked of it. Recording, mixing, stemming, summing, mastering... this board does it all. No other board quite like it.
How is the preamps? Does it adds hiss noise, etc when recorded in daw?
Soulful Music Time yes the hiss is so loud it sounds like a race horse pissing in a bucket
Can you tell / explain how the USB return works in a DAW (Studio One) do I just assign each track back to the mixer as an output to the particular channel and then I can mix my multitrack recording on the console instead of in the box (daw) ?
@@supersonicsroots Exactly. The USB RTN button basically changes the input to an output to send tracks out to. But it can also be used with an input, like a guitar or a mic, at the same time. It's called a virtual insert. Using your plugins as inserts, like guitar sims or auto tune. Works splendidly.
Thanks Epos for answering the obvious questions i had when looking at this about a month ago! You're ahead of me again :D - nobody else i found seemed to explain the channels properly!
You're going to dig the Signature 12 multitrack! I can't wait to see a follow up vid.
Stumbled across your video. Thanks for the crystal clear explanation and exactly what I was looking for.
Excellent review my friend.
Looking at this item too. I have the Scarlett 4i4, which gives 4 mono inputs into my DAW, but they also show in stereo pairs like 1-2 and 3-4. The key is how 12 individual tracks plus the master mix can all show up separately in YOUR DAW THRU ONE USB!
That is how this thing makes sense. For me, it means I will not be SWAPPING cables around all the time because I want to record a different instrument, and I can record the band simultaneously and master everybody's tracks individually in the DAW. Gonna buy this bad boy! The keys are the multiple tracks across USB and the power this gives your DAW. Sorry I'm repeating myself but dang, this is cool.
I have the Soundcraft Signature 12 MTK and I love it :)
I'm using this mixer for home studio and it's really great and versatile. Also noteworthy is it's class compliant and has a power USB port on the front panel. Which means you can technically record without computer using an iPhone connected to it with Garageband or similar app. In terms of footprint, you can make it even smaller by unscrewing the two cheeks, or replace them with thinner wood-made ones :)
Went to StoreDJ in Melbourne last weekend. Almost bought a Yamaha 16 track mixer. Talked to Poz. He mentioned this mixer sends multi-tracks over USB. I bought this instead. Thank you Poz.
I love my Soundcraft 12MTK. Currently recoding 11 mics/inputs for our band. The Mixes come out amazing, because I can get in there an really EQ/Compress/De-Ess all of the individual channels. It so much more pro level to be able to work on this level vs. a simple stereo output channel. By the way, I love the Ghost Pre-Amps. Very Quiet. One of the most feature rich multitrack mixers you can buy for a home studio. Simply Amazing. You have actually gone into a lot more detail with the USB/digital routing you can do in the box as well. I still feel like I'm not using this thing to its full potential and I am already pushing it. Best money ever spent on gear for sure!!!!!!!
This thing is really almost like having a mini-pro mixing console. BTW. As a recommendation. Pick up a Waves SSL-E Channel plugin. (on sale it was $29) Now you can add that to each individual channel in your mixes. Mini SSL console. Its pure rock and roll goodness!!!!
@@chansomanmusic1397 I have not tried that yet, that is my next step. It is my understanding it can be done. This guy goes into it in this video on the SC22. Part of me is wondering if there is an easier way with the internal routing and USB.
@@chansomanmusic1397 th-cam.com/video/5P9dezTrEZ8/w-d-xo.html
@@chansomanmusic1397 Try this video, this might be a better explanation. th-cam.com/video/ITJNiUEqNyA/w-d-xo.html
@@chansomanmusic1397 Yes you can... I analog sum my mixes this way. Soundcraft doesn't mention it much, but this board is an amazing analogue summing console.. straight up... stellar. Been loving my MTK for almost 2 years now.
Really a good video. Thank you.
Love the review! Is it possible to go through the eq during a live stream? Just bought the 22 today and can't wait to get it!
I use this mixer coupled with Reaper to record all my drum audio for my videos. I love it!!!
Hello!! How many separate channels on daw? the 12?
Nice! Glad they all show up individually! When you said "Soundcraft", I thought you said "Soundcrap" Lol.
xD
Bought this few years back based on so many YT videos. A lot of my channels have failed since then. Probably one of thee quickest failing electronic device I have purchased.
Thank you brother..
Thank you so much for the awesome work you do! Would you be willing to make a follow-up video of this beast in your workflow? I have a lot of detail oriented questions, but mainly I'm curious how everything works for a livestream. This seems like a dream setup. I want to nail down my audio and I'm so tired of VoiceMeeter. It makes me want to break things.
Just checked out Clockworks video, that helped a bit. If you get some time, I'd still love to see how you're using it.
the soundcraft ASIO control panel looks exactly the same with my behringer 404hd :) pretty neat mixer tho
The zoom L-12 allows like 8 mono and two stereo outs thru usb. Only 4 can be sent out of it thru usb and they are technically stereo but if you pan hard you can get 4 mono tracks.
Wow, you came out with this quick review, quickly. This may alleviate me from having to use voicemeeter to hear audio from both my streaming and gaming pc at the same time.
Would I be correct with that determination?
This is great
I hope you finally figured the mixer out. The routing, and the PFL feature. Five years and still loving it. Cheers.
Got 5 good years out of it and then the USB board died randomly after I rebooted my PC ☠️
@@EposVox it's always the two capacitors at C111 & C113 and usually the 75Kohm resistor at R102 is bar-b-q'd on 2016 PSU's. Easy swap of discrete thru hole components. No more than 15 minutes for a bench tech. I have kits available in the group too. Cheers from T.O. 🍻
Wait. Don't listen to haters, i LIKE the fact that you're using Behringer. Of course we all know of their occasional engineering mishaps and general quality issues, but they do take their mission of giving creatives what they want and need cheaper than anyone else quite seriously! If you can get your work done with one of those for years, then so can your audience. I bet most Behringer haters are just bandwagoning and don't actually have first-hand experience.
But this thing you got recommended here IS unique and interesting and quite affordable too!
5:25 I believe you can solo sources with the PFL button on each channel
thanks for the review man, did you ever find a fix or real work around for voice calls like discord and such? or was there any driver updates that resolved the mono only issue? I ask because i use a laptop and wont have the same options you mentioned
Hi there i have this mixer in my studio and you have yours setup in a way your actually disabling the fucntions of it channel 11/12 and used as the master track when used in the way with each channel on the mixer being sent to your internal tracks and 11/12 being sent to the master
this is done this way so you can capture any eqs at the desk or gain staging so 11/12 to you master and then the master split to aux out for recording
on the master channel you have a INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL LISTEN
when in external listen mode in a daw or program you can capture any tracks but for you it would make more sense to work in external mode and send everything back in and down 11/12 and that to the master then you can mix anything you like and take calls down both channels
by all means when in a recording mode you can ignore the channel being panned and send a left and right or a doubled mono track back
in recording mode you can wire it anyway you want the layout for grouping of tracks are for when the mixer is in a daw mixing mode but during recording ANYTHING GOES
so the desk can fully meet your needs just 11/12 isnt just for systems sounds its your master track that loopback in combination with the master track
if you want any info on how i have mine set by all means drop us a message
I own this mixer. I might need some clarification on this as well. Great info though.....
When I was an audio tech the souncraft brand was a major high end vendor. Great choice.
Got this last year with a high-quality USB cable from Audioquest this Mixer delivers high-quality results.! I am now considering the bigger version with more ins and outs/
What cable did you get? I picked this up today and want to make sure I avoid issues by getting something high quality.
merdwerkz elektron cable
Presonus AR series works in both ways. I used this with 1/2 and it worked just fine, switch inputs. The presonus AR series you can run USB to post fader. It works for what I do.
I just ordered this to replace my presonus ar8. Internal power supply has failed twice in 3 years. First tim within the 1 year presonus warranty. Second time outside of it. Make a high pitch noise from the power supply. Not from the outputs but from the physical mixer. Very annoying. Great mixer when it worked right thought. This has more channels which is a plus.
I have a Presonus Classic USB and works like a charm. 18 in 16 out usb interface.
So, if using this as a USB audio interface, are the EQ and effects not heard when I am streaming on OBS? I want to be able to use this with EQ and FX when streaming.
Not sure if you looked at the Roland MX-1 - it has 18 in/out at 96khz. it may only have 14 in /out if you don't use the 4 Roland AIRA link usb connections but it has been a workhorse in my studio for recording/performing
Yamaha made something like this about 10 years ago, called N12, using Firewire.
Oh my god I was locking for this. Have you found a solution to the mono mic problem?
Dude you should have got the Behringer XR18 mixer. Just check it out, it does everything the soundcraft signature does and more!!!!
Except... you know... the complete lack of physical controls, not actually having separate Windows devices for each input and output... most of the things I need, uhh sure.
I specifically said I was avoiding ASIO-only multichannel devices.
I got this for the usb advantages and then not set it up for months, but at last ai have so time. You comment that you can not hear tracks to the headphone, you can use afl to direct to the headphone to check levels
Pre fade listen is for soloing one or more tracks.
I'm considering this, or I've actually kinda decided on it as my next purchase to replace other things i have. But I've read the documentation for it, and I just want to make sure if I got it right. I will be able to adjust the monitoring volume for the various USB devices with the sliders if I hit the button for doing that, right? But will that also adjust the volume for those devices in Windows, when the sliders are adjusted, or will slider adjustment only adjust the monitoring volume? (I'm hoping for the latter)
I just thought of an idea for your next major class. Possibly audio for beginners. How to master audio for youtube and streaming?
It's pretty easy... you grab a second two channel interface and run your MTK into it. Ultimate control for audio levels in OBS. That's how I have my streaming rig setup with a Focusrite 2i2. Keeps the audio/daw on one system, video/obs on another, no resource issues.
Do you know if the 22 mtk handles the USB input/output differently than the 12 allowing the separation of those 1/2 3/4 5/6 channel groupings?
It doesn't from what I can tell - but honestly not sure
to resolve the issue with channel pairing I made a XLR to double jack cable so that my main mic takes the 2 first channels. I dont need all the channels anyway so this resolves it :D
Thanks for the review, I havent been using a mixer for last 10 years and considering whether to go back. How do you rate the Ghost preamps in this model? anything special or just does the job, nothing else?
So also the Tascam model 12,plus the Tascam 12 ,besides usb,but also midi in & outputs
The PFL button right below mute for each track is your solo button. It stands for "Pre Fade Listen".
That's... not the same thing, though :/
It routes only the track with PFL pressed to the headphone jack without modifying the mix which is what I understood a solo button to be, but this is also my first mixer so maybe I missed something that's more useful about other solo buttons.
It's been my experience with SOME mixers that Solo In Place functions are 'destructive' - they sometimes mute all other inputs and affect the mix buss in order to monitor the input. I think the issue is how some label what their "solo" does. I think the most desired effect for this unit would be a AFL so you can hear more than just the input pre-fader, since that's what's going to your main mix. PFLs are great for checking your headroom or just checking a source is there before you turn a fader on, since PFLs will let you listen to a source even if the fader's at zero. I've almost always seen these all together, or at the very least an AFL labeled as SOLO or SIP. But when things are labeled solo without the others, I've found they just mute the other inputs on the monitor and the main mix outputs, rather than 'cueing' a signal like an AFL, which I think we almost always want both AFL and PFL, rather than the 'correct' SIP function.
I guess on my Behringers "Solo" was AFL. It was a great "just for me" mix that this doesn't have.
Yeah the PFL on here mutes everything else. Solo on the Behringers was an AFL solo that sent it to headphones/control room alongside whatever other mixes were going.
@EposVox just went out and picked up a 12MTK. I’m on MacOS (Catalina) and am not seeing the breakout of the channels as separate audio devices like what you have here in the video. Indeed, in OBS I see a single source (the 12MTK) as an audio option but not individual channels (1-2, 3-4, etc). It looks like the drivers on Soundcrafts website is PC Specific and in the manual (from what I see) it states that on Mac no extra drivers are needed. What am I missing?
So to fix the discord/Skype mono problem, you ran channel 1 in to the pc analog to the soundcard and not over usb?
Show us how this is set up for vst's before running to obs... I got this same mixer and im trying to find out how to do that.
Was so excited to get this after watching the video been looking for exactly this mixer. The matter usb return is really low levels for OBS and XSplit have you had any luck with that?
It's a little quieter than analog out, but it's still completely usable. USB usually ends up being quieter in most mixers. Just add a little gain in OBS w/ a compressor/limiter to prevent clipping and you're good.
Ok, now I'm finally finding videos of people actually digging into this genre of mixers. But here's my question.... What else compares? And are there cheaper options that do the same in principle? I'm looking at the Behringer UFX1204, it's perfect for my needs but the question of their quality (and lack of actually seeing it in use this way) has me concerned. But the price...
I really like your reviews, I think I'll stick around.
Got a Soundcraft Signature 12 MTK as my first mixer and the volume is VERY quiet when playing guitars through it (either mic or DI) and going out to my KRK speakers or Headphones. The Gain, Channel Fader (routed to master and group 1-2) and Master are all cranked to the max. Sometimes it reaches -3 max volume on the Master Meter, but that's it. Is there something I'm missing here? I heard these mixers were quiet to help clipping, but this is barely audible.
Yes, you need to plug into channels 5 or 6 and select the "Hi-Z" button. Cheers!
How did you install the drivers? Because if I install the drivers on my laptop it says that it cannot be accepted by the operating system
what are your plans with the TAPE deck ? ? ?
Hi, I’m wondering if the USB recordings are pre fader how do you set up a mix for streaming that both you and your listeners hear? Thanks!!
I think I found my newest mixer!
This comment is really late, but did you find a better way to ungroup the 1/2 grouping? Any new firmware, driver updates since 4 years ago? Looking for a easier way to mono a channel for pretty much the same things you mentioned. Voice calls.
Nice video! Is this mixer still worth it?
The compacitor 🤭😁
I'm new to recording music. Will this allow each of my 7 drum mics to be 7 separate tracks in my DAW?
Yes, provided it has 7 XLR inputs. I've been looking at this and the Behringer UFX1204 recently.
Have you tried using this with Voice Meter Banana or Potato Software to see if you can get those inputs separately as Multitrack?
( hey. nice vid and unboxing demo. i have a question and hope you can help me. so, does this Signature 12MTK board, can it playback several channels FROM a DAW as individual channels on the board? i have Garageband on my Iphone and pre-recorded 4 separate instrument tracks (guitar, bass, piano and drums) for a song. will i be able to assign (playback) a single instrument on a single channel on the board? i'm talking about being able to mix (the volume[faders]) of the individual instruments on the board, considering that these sounds are all coming from Garageband and not from inputs to the board like XLR or Line-in. i hope i was able to describe it in an understandable way for you. looking forward for your answer. thank you! )
hey! hows going? i would like to make you a question, wheres the return external FX? i can only see 3 FX in, but i cant find the out!! thank you
So in asio each channel show up as mono? Should work fine with the asio plugin for obs then
How do you map USB audio back into the mixer? I have this mixer and use it with Studio 1. The USB portion as you know only lets you use the gain knobs on the channel before going into the DAW. My recording chain starts out with a mic, to preamp, to Soundcraft Board, to Computer. You mentioned mapping USB audio back into the mixer. How do you do that and what would the advantages be? Thanks
I've had the same problems with the soundfloor on my behringer xenyx 1002b, its annoying to listen to music without another amp because there isnt enough power for my 250phm headphones or even my 80ohm ones. frustrating, yes but it is manageable with a little bit of playing around.
The Yamaha MG12XUF is an amazing mixer with this "special" feature in addition to having the ability to group channels and route them to a master volume control so you don't have to control them individually. It's also cheaper with more effects and an actual power switch.
Everything and everyone I have found that can/has tested it has confirmed both the 12 and 10 from that line only present a 2/2 USB interface to Windows. You can access each input over ASIO, that's very common, but useless for streaming and video conferencing, OBS, screen recording, basically everything except music. That's what's "special" about this, as it didn't exist on anything cheaper prior to the GoXLR and PreSonus Revelator devices.
@@EposVox I see a lot of streamers on TH-cam and Twitch using the Yamaha, so I'm not sure how that can be useless. The SoundCraft is probably perfect for dated setups and computers with cheap soundcards and only 3 input/outputs.
You seem to have completely missed the point of both what I considered to be a selling point of this mixer and my comment. Nice.
@@EposVox When looking at your other video featuring the Yamaha mixer, it looks like you just have a cheap soundcard problem, which by the way is not with 99% of computers unless you don't know how to build your own.
There is no “cheap soundcard problem” - the mixer itself does NOT send more than a stereo pair up and down over USB, thus it doesn’t have the feature that was my selling point for the SoundCraft. Other sound cards are completely irrelevant to that point as they have nothing to do with it.
Those Yamaha mixers do not give separate devices for the inputs to Windows, only a final stereo mix. Thus it’s not a better nor cheaper solution for that specific reason this entire thing was about.
I havent got a hold of this mixer but i was thiking.... Why dont you use the master LR instead of 1/2 input. In that way you will get a stereo output for every mono input u r using. Even if you are recording it directly, wont the mono signal (eg:- channel 1 mic) gets recorded like in 2 monos(L&R)? Provided if you dont do any panning and keep the channel at the centre?
Because I need each device as a separate input. 1/2 has my main mic, 3/4 has my second mic, 5/6 is my discord output, 7/8 is my gaming PC, 9/10 is my game consoles, 11/12 is system sound. The whole reason to buy this mixer over cheaper ones is that USB multitrack support, and that's what I bought it to use.
How is the preamps? Does it adds hiss noise, etc when recorded in daw?
Does it need to be always connected to the USB in order to work and let sound go trhu it, or can i just work without the computer and whenever i want to bounce the tracks from my sampler i just conect it to the USB-computer? Thanks!
Any other cool features/problems you've found out about this mixer since you posted this video?
Hi, i'm having trouble getting my Soundcraft Signature 12MTK to work well with OBS on my MAC, OBS is seeing the mixer but its not producing any sound, my mics are not working, music is not being played, but it shows the mixer quite alright on OBS but simply not producing sound, any helps please, thanks
This soundcard made me want to do a live recording. It is also a separate channel in which I can mix different vocal instruments separately from FL Studio. Plz Ripley
What DAW did you use
Hello, really need your help and advice! I'm considering getting this console. The issue I've seen is people commenting that when routing a track to this console, you can't feed the EQ to the track and process it through the EQ, meaning all you're left with is the faders and the effects? Is this true?? Like if I route drums into this console and mess with the EQ to my liking then print the drum track, it'll print without my EQ adjustments?? So confused.
Most younger people are confused with this mixer because Soundcraft assumes that you're primarily going to use the mixer in the traditional way that you would with an analog mixing desk, recording your final mix to a 2 track master, most young people have never done this, this is why it's so confusing. With this mixer you have 12 Physical Inputs that record 14 channels of Audio In and have 12 channels of Audio Out, Channel 13/14 has no physical input because these channels are used to record the Master Stereo Out. A traditional recording session would be like this, I suppose: 6 Mono instruments, (say Mics) and 3 Stereo instruments (say 2 synths & a drum machine) are simultaneously Recorded Into your DAW over USB making up 12 channels of audio, this audio is recorded into your DAW with NO EQ, and typically no FX. All 12 channels that you recorded into your DAW are then sent Back Out from your DAW Thru Any Channel that you want on the mixing desk (but typically the same channel) you do this by pressing the USB RTN channel buttons on the mixing desk (and also by setting up the Outs in your DAW) , you then playback your finished track adding EQ, Effects Panning etc. Once you're happy with your mix you setup a Stereo Audio track to Record your Final Stereo Mix on Channel 13/14, this is the Stereo Master Out on your mixer. If you wanted to record all 12 channels but mix inside the Box/DAW, you could just route all 12 audio channels through the default stereo playback channel, which is Channels 11/12 (With No EQ), then record to Channels 13/14. It's kinda confusing at first, but the routing possibilities this mixer offers does make it ridiculously flexible.
Just found this review. I'm a newbie here but I'm looking to input two separate usb devices (tablets) with the intention of mixing these sources rather than using rca inputs. Can this mixer do it? Thanks
Another great video you post box. Clarifying question? Does this mean that for example, since the device has 14 inputs but each pair of inputs only correspond to one audio device that the computer will show a total of 7 audio devices inside windows? Could I there after simple use the first two input lines for a track and have a safety track for the left and right channels mixed how do you like it into one audio input device in Windows?kind of like what you would do for short film Productions?
I'm essentially wondering how come it sounds like you can't use a single stereo shotgun mic for example of when it is the mixer and have that singular Line run into windows have it show up as a us input? if that's the case that it must be mixed in with the second Channel immediately adjacent to it, then it seems like a safety track possibility could be in order especially if you can hook up an expensive get high-quality Mike.
A stereo mic w/ two XLR or 1/4" leads can work within one device just fine. The vast majority of microphones are mono. But if you somehow split off your mic to two outputs, then you could do a safety track. Could do a safety track by auxing mic out and pulling that into the second channel, too.
EposVox oh okay. I thought most shotgun mics were stereo?
Not at all o_O
One mic, one capsule, one mouth. In fact I only even know of a single stereo shotgun mic at all, it's a gimmicky dual mic from Sennheiser. Microphones are mono. you've only got one mouth.
Hi Epos, audio interface as well?
Can I group channels to audio devices as I want, or only one device per a pair of tracks? i.e. can I for example create two audio devices - one with channels 1-8 and the other one with channels 9-12?
Is there any information on why the audio volume send through USB is about 12db lower? Gain is set on 0db on the mixer's meters, but when USB RTN is pressed on the channel, all my devices tested register the audio at -12db. Very frustrating...
How does the USB return work with a daw like Studio One for example? Can you engage YSB return per track and then mix the already recorded tracks on this console? Cause that's what I'd buy this for tbh
Can you record the post fader master out to your computer?
Hi, I have a problem with this mixer. I have the headphones attached to the mixer and the mixer to the pc. My problem is that I record on instrumental bases that I would like to hear on the headphones along with my voice while I record. I can't do it! I have tried everything! I can only hear myself on headphones if I activate the PFL while the music coming from the computer I do not hear it with or without the PFL. In other groups they told me that the USB cable is one way and therefore I can't hear myself! It's true?? Thank you
Hello EPOS....Is This Mixer Is good for recording and how is the clarity tell please.
Hi, I've been looking to get this too but I wonder if you have found other new/old mixers with the same features but now comes with INDIVIDUAL Channel input / output. I've been researching on this and haven't really found much success, I have relatively small space so the mtk24 is too big for me. While I know there is now an ASIO driver for OBS, I would rather do hardware solution first before going software. Thank you and hoping I can get a response
If you have an Nvidia post-20XX you can use Nvidia Broadcast as your audio device and you would get an instant double-mono signal.
This sounds like just what I'm looking for, but I'm curious about the sliders. Lets say I have 3 channels from this going into OSB: My mic, Stereo Music from a 2nd PC, and System sounds routed through the mixer, would the sliders not work for adjusting the levels on each channel? I'd like to be able to fade music in and out with the sliders. I'm also hoping to be able to do a mix-minus for discord that would have system sounds, music from a 2nd pc, and my mic, but not the voice of others on discord, is that possible? Thanks so much for your video, really hoping this could address my mixer woes. I'm currently using a Behringer QX1204USB with a lot of audio lines running between my PC and the mixer, and a second USB sound card just to handle in/out for discord, which is fed a mix-minus off the mixer's aux channel. Wish this stuff was not so complicated!
How are the pres? Better than the behiringer I'm sure, but how do they compare to yamaha and SSL?
I could be wrong, but I think my PreSonus StudioLive AR12 works the same way as far as multiple inputs in Windows.
Looks very similar too
Have you tried running your Shure SM7B off this board? Wondering if the mic preamps are able to handle that mic or not? I have to run a Cloudlifter on my PreSonus to get anywhere near usable gain.
I don't own a SM7b, it was on loan from another TH-camr. However, I can almost guarantee the pre-amps aren't good enough. You'll need a cloudlifer/fethead at minimum with 99.9% of mixers.
Yeah, that's what I figured. Thanks!
I don't know about Skype but discord mixes your microphone down to mono, my current audio interface only outputs my mic on line 1 to the left side and it comes out on both sides from discord
Yeah. If you put the mic in channel 2 you wouldn't hear anything on Skype at least, which records from the left side only. Not sure about discord either. But the real problematic situation with this comes in when you talk to people on Team Talk in a stereo channel. You could probably go to sounds, recording tab, click on the wdm driver for channels 1/2, properties, advanced tab or hardware tab and set the sample rate to a mono option. I don't have this mixer though so I'm stabbing in the dark.
That would mix 1/2 down to stay in the middle I think. Then the issue becomes, what if you want to pan yourself? Lots of mixers can let you set pan on each mic channel to move yourself a bit. With this mono trick that won't work. Also if you get effects to come in on that channel somehow, any reverbs would be forced down to mono.
How can I keep or save the same effect ollwes
is there are some budget options now that do similiar multi virtual device stuff? im looking something for replacing voicemeeter withj, but i dont need 12 devices, i wish i had smth like this registering only as 4 devices and 4 control rolumns on mixer. smth kinda like goxlr mini, except in this form factor with all bells and whistles like eq knobs and xlr input.
How can I use this mixer's effects in usb recording?? I mean I try to record multitrack but selected effects are not recorded... Its only in hearing... Pls guide.
You can print the boards FX in your DAW by routing the master to a print track.
Definitely should’ve just gone with one of the Zoom LiveTrak mixers
$200-$300 more though. That's a good chunk of change for a lot of people. I've been comparing the MTK 12, the Behringer UFX1204, and the L20R. None of them record 96kHz in real-time from what I've read in the manuals, though. It seems you're limited to 24-bit/48kHz no matter which way you go for around the same money.
Edit: the Zoom L20R is $150 off right now everywhere. That sweetens the pot.
Thank you this was REALLY helpful. Would you have any idea why OBS does not recognize the 12 channels and only recognizes the MTK as one input?
It should recognize all the different devices if they show up in Windows.
@@EposVox thanks for the reply. I'm using a Mac Laptop so I think the drivers are already installed. Maybe something in the Mac set up is off
Check out tascam model 12
I am pretty sure discord forces everything to mono anyways. the tascam uphoria is not a mixer but an interface with the same thing. i have the 4 input version and windows sees it as 2 stereo audio devices and i always use it for discord having my mic in just input 1 even though discord is set to input 2. i have even been looking for a way to voicechat with discord in stereo mode but it's impossible because they force it to mono to save bandwidth. only bots(like music bots) can output stereo. now there is a possibility that that was different as of the making of the video but still thought.
Hey people, I recently got the Signature 12 MTK. I am using it as my audio interface with Logic Pro X. I have a few synths that I am trying to record through the Signature 12 MTK via channel 1 or channel 2. However when I open a new audio channel in Logic (let's say channel 1) and hit record, the recording captures not only my synth running into channel 1 but also the entire master output! It's super frustrating. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
gr8 vid.. can you give me the mixer driver link ..plizz
does this interface work with mac os catalina?
Is there anyone else having a similar issue where you cannot do both input and output on the mixer simultaneously? To clarify, basically if i use the mic inputs, the usb return doesn't work and vice versa. I keep battling with the settings and eventually find a sweet spot where both work, but I just moved my setup and I cannot find how to get to that sweet spot again :(
Thanks for the great review =) Keep up your awesome work! About the distinct Windows WDM devices for each input/output... I've just spent the last couple of days browsing for similar units and couldn't find any that can do it. Many look like they can (Tascam Model12, Presonus StudioLive AR12, Zoom LiveTrak L12, Allen & Heath ZEDi 10FX), but when you read a bit more, you find out it's actually Multitrack recording. This device came out in 2016. I can't believe nothing else came out in the past 4 years. I know the GoXLR has some similarities... Does anyone know of another 12 or 16-channel mixer that can do the 6 or 7 (or more!) distinct WDM devices?
A youtuber says the Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 can set up wdm devices for the channels if that is useful knowledge.