

The X32 has obvious appeal to the budget and semi-pro live-sound market, as well as small-scale pro users, theatres and houses of worship.

This dramatically undercuts the obvious competition, such as Yamaha's LS9 and Presonus's Studio Live, while competing on features with still more expensive desks such as the Soundcraft Vi series. Even more excitingly, it is set to sell at a street price of under £2000 in the UK. It is geared primarily towards live sound, but is sufficiently versatile to make studio applications perfectly viable too. For anyone who hasn't already been caught up in the marketing excitement, the X32 is a fully featured, 32-channel, 16-bus digital mixer with a generous supply of built-in effects and an impressively comprehensive feature set. The three companies' joint technical expertise has now produced its first fruit in the X32, a product that looks set to completely overturn the market for budget digital mixing consoles. Midas are very well known for class-leading live-sound mixing consoles, while Klark Teknik make ancillary equipment like graphic equalisers, system controllers, compressors and the classic DN780 reverb. Behringer are known for making cost-effective products, but their new X32 live mixer takes that to a whole new level.įormed in 1989, Behringer are one of the industry's best known 'pro audio' equipment manufacturers - almost everyone has used a Behringer product at some point! At the start of 2010, the Music Group, Behringer's parent company, acquired two closely linked British companies.
