An affordable mixer/interface that does double duty for live sound and home recording.

The 16-input Tascam M-164UF mixer has 6 mic inputs with XLR ins and phantom power for great-sounding tracks. Mic inputs additionally have 3-band EQ with hi-pass filters for sculpting the mix. 5 stereo line inputs bring the total count to 16 inputs, and several channels include EQ and RIAA phono preamps for added flexibility. The M-164UF effect mixer has two output buses—main and sub—as well as a pair of aux sends for monitors and effects. An onboard stereo effects processor features 16 programs of reverb, delay, chorus and other great-sounding effects.

The M-164UF mixer also includes a full-fledged 16x2 audio interface that works over USB 2.0. The interface allows all 16 inputs to be recorded to their own tracks using the included Cubase LE4 48-track recording workstation software. The M-164UF supports Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Windows Vista.

TASCAM M-164UF 16-Input Mixer with Effects and USB 2.0 Interface Features:

• 6 XLR microphone inputs with phantom power and hi-pass filters
• 5 stereo line inputs
• 3-band EQ on mic channels 1-6
• 2-band EQs on line channels 7-10 and main output
• RIAA phono preamp on channels 9-10 (RCA)
• Unique design with built-in meter bridge
• Sub and Main output buses (1/4" outputs)
• Separate stereo and mono outputs for main and aux (1/4")
• Two aux sends (1/4" outputs)
• Stereo effects processor with 16 presets for reverb, delay, chorus and other effects
• USB 2.0 audio interface providing 16 outputs to computer and stereo return from computer at 96kHz / 24-bit
• Supports Mac OS X, Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Includes Cubase LE4 48-track recording workstation software

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TASCAM M-164UF 16-Input Mixer with Effects and USB 2.0 Interface

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like taming a wild beast

Posted by egoff12 from glenwood, MD on Sep 9, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Hobbyist

Reviewer's Play Style: anything from carnifex to owl city. its all good.

Since this is a first review, I'll be as comprehensive as possible. The mixer, as a mixer, is good, i guess. silent, flexible, it's nice. But whatever. I forked out the cash to do multitrack recording.

Well, getting this thing to do what I wanted was such a pain, but it was worth it. Being the first multitrack setup I have used, I went in unarmed. First off, cubase doesn't function with 64-bit Vista. After installing, it fails to launch. Not too much of a problem fir me because I managed to get it to work with Sonar Cakewalk 4 (old, i know). But the trick to that was realising that ASIO drivers were actually better than WDK/MS drivers for the mixer. Everywhere the two are compared, the opposite is stated. It's not as though the mixer doesn't support WDK/MS, in fact it is the default driver and works flawlessly up to 6 channels. Anymore, however, and theres dropouts galore. Setting to ASIO solves dropout problems and I recorded 15 minutes straight of 12 tracks no issues. Noted, I had a profile in vista built for speed on an already fast, 2 month old computer, so this was expected. Before I figured out the asio trick, I emailed tascam. 6 weeks later, I still haven't gotten a response. Maybe their call line is better?(couldn't be worse) Luckily I didn't *need* them.

Other things worth mentioning: the mixer has problems with some windows programs if you use it as the sound output. Not a big deal, but annoying. The effects aren't recordable to my knowledge. I wouldn't use them anywho, but some might. Everything's plastic. I don't care, but again, some might. When recording, there's a send for every channel up to 12. After that, you have have to configure the on-mixer sends to separate the other 4 if you wish to do a total of 13 or more. Hard to set up, harder to explain (but doable).

End of story- NOT recommended if your bad with computers and don't have cakewalk. Recommended if your a computer guru or have a mac (lent it to a friend whos a mac user- no problems)

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