Features:

  • Compact mixer with built-in Alesis effects for live sound, mobile A/V, DJ and home studio use
  • (16) total inputs including a wide range of XLR, 1/4-inch and RCA jacks
  • RCA inputs & outputs for connectors for seamless integration of A/V gear
  • Aux sends and returns on 1/4-inch jacks for easy integration of outboard processors and more
  • Ultra-low noise discrete mic pre with +18V Phantom power; compatible with condenser and dynamic mics
Good quality in a small form factor

This thing is fantastic! With only 3 EQ settings per channel, I was a bit skeptical that I'd be able to get the sound quality I wanted out of it. With that said, I hooked it up and started doing sample recordings (voice only, podcast style) and this little guy impressed me! It's small enough that it fits on the corner of my desk, just out of the way. Also, having phantom power is a huge bonus, especially if you're using a condenser mic. The only thing I wish it had was a USB port, however, this can easily be overcome with a $20 cable ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DT827FA/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 )

A bargain for modest use.

You know what? This is a bargain. No, I'm not going to go tour Europe with it, but for home use or for modest use in a band or for video production where it doesn't get bounced around too much it's a great deal. I'm mixing mics and recorded music together to feed into a video camera in real time, and it works like a champ. The on-board effects are adequate and it has a bus to connect to outboard effects. There is a couple second delay when you first select an effect, but then it keeps right on trucking. This is an example of how electronics have become smaller, reliable and affordable over time.

Good mixer with rotary fader controls.

My old Peavey PV6's fader was getting very noisy over the years - if you have a mixer with sliding faders, cover them to keep the dust out - they will eventually go bad. This is one reason I purchased this Alto ZMX862. Nice, basic no frills mixer for personal use, small bands, pod-casting, etc. No sliding faders! Pretty quiet and seems pretty well built. I am a fan of Behringer products, but some of the reviewers mentioned the power supply was proprietary and could end up being a problem. Based on this product, I will be trying more Alto products.

Excellent For Certain Needs

I've been djing for 20 years, I just added bingo to my business and didn't want to drag in everything. This little guy has what I need and I have a small bag and one speaker I bring in for my bingo nights. I hook it up to 1 mic and 1 speaker, although you can hook up 2 speakers to it with 1/4" plugs. As far as the mic imput, if you use an xlr you will get better sound, much louder. If you use a 1/4" you must turn the gain up a lot to get a good sound. I have both mic options but have been using the 1/4" with extra gain and it works just fine. Again, I wouldn't use this for actual dj work, but its great for my musical bingo, I am using it along with my laptop for my music. There is no eq on it, so that part is a little tricky, but my software program on my computer does have an eq and I use that when I need it. If you are looking for a small board for mc work, announcements, or for home use even for karaoke, this will work just fine. It's super lightweight and fits in a small space as its maybe 6-8" wide. Very pleased with it!

Two years later, STILL working GREAT

I've been using this every single week, often multiple times a week to splice my in-ear mix from a PA with the DI out from my pedal board. Bass players can never get enough of themselves in their mix :) Handles low frequency response well, gain / EQ functions all work great, I'd highly recommend it. Also I've used it to mix audio from different sources and microphones for pod-casting. It's a great unit.

this is a great little mixer for the price and perfect for my ...

On off switch is essential, this is a great little mixer for the price and perfect for my needs which is summing two mic channels before an interface. Good preamp sound and several gain stages to dial in volume make it useful for articulating the right sound. The meters work well and are a nice touch. Must have for anyone who records guitars or multiple mics that they want summed.

Seems Bullet :Proof,Versatile and Sounds Great

I shopped for Hours looking at Mixers here on Amazon… reading all of the Reviews. Finally I decided on the ALTO ZMX862 Mixer. I was surprised it arrived so quickly… I had to double check my Order to make sure I didn’t accidentally pay as much for the Postage as for the Product. I ordered the new ALTO ZMX862 Mixer to replace my old Peavey 6 Mixer – I loved that old Peavey Six… I think I had been using it HARD (every day!) for the last 8 years, but finally the Fader Pot on the Main Output (that big Slide Volume Control) developed dead spots and or it would rise and fall in volume all by itself, or make crackle snap and pop noises. Usually squirting a little bit of Shop Grade Alcohol into the Slide, and exercising it and then letting it dry for a while brings back some temporary Life to a Fader that is, well, ‘fading’, but this one was finally shot. So I liked the Fact that the ALTO ZMX862 Mixer has no Faders, just regular Turn Pots. Check the Reviews for every single mixer being sold, and see what a common problem it is to have failing faders – it’s a Big Problem with Mixers. Now, there were reviews for the ALTO ZMX862 Mixer that took issue with the ‘fact’ that the different Pots on the ALTO ZMX862 Mixer have different ‘feels’—some are stiff and some turn more easily. Well, I spent two days “dialing in” my New ALTO ZMX862 Mixer and there is One Thing I am Absolutely Certain About, and that is I DID NOT NOTICE ANYTHING FUNNY ABOUT HOW THE POTS WORKED. Besides, if THAT is the worst problem with this Mixer, then it is probably the Best Mixer on the Planet, don’t you think? I DID notice that everything was much Brighter through this ALTO ZMX862 Mixer then in my old Peavy6, so I had to dial down the mids and the highs a bit more, but that could mean that this Mixer has a much higher effective Bandwidth. The Peavey had great Total Harmonic Distortion specs (THD), and the ALTO ZMX862 Mixer wasn’t spec’d for THD, but I haven’t noticed any blurring or fogginess in the audio. After ‘dialing it in’ the ALTO ZMX862 Mixer sounds great. Now, something about how Useful the ALTO ZMX862 Mixer is – I was using the Old Peavey to Mix IPOD Audio in with my Guitar and then running Both the IPOD and the Guitar Audio back through my Guitar Amp (a Fender Mustang III)… you know, instead of having separate speakers for the ‘Music’ and for the Guitar, I was using just the Guitar Amp. The way it works in detail is I got the ‘Conditioned’ Guitar Signal from the Amp’s FX Send and ran it to one of the Peavey’s Mic Inputs (mono). From the Peavey Mixer I ran the Mixed Signal back to the Amp’s FX Return through the Peavey’s own FX Send (and from there in the Amp it goes to the Final Power Amplification and then to the Speaker, and so the nice Clean IPOD Music isn’t ‘stepped on’ by ‘Guitar Effects’.). To keep the Peavey Working all the way through to the Main Out and the Headphone Out, I ‘Split’ the Peavey’s FX Send signal and plugged it back into the Mixer’s own FX Return Input (FX Sends need FX Returns, or that’s the end of the Line). But the new ALTO ZMX862 Mixer works a bit differently. With the ALTO ZMX862 Mixer to do the same thing with the Guitar Amp’s FX Send and Return and with the Mixers effective Send and Return, you use the AUX Circuits. You still run the Amp’s FX Send to a Mic Input (mono), but the ALTO ZMX862 Mixer has an “AUX Send” and the connector marked “2 FX”. It is a STEREO Send, and my Mustang III FX Return is a Mono, but all you have to do to convert a Stereo Out to a Mono Out is shove a ¼ inch Mono Plug into the Mixer Stereo Jack, and it all comes out Mono in the end. I originally tried using the Control Room Out for the Return Signal to my Amp’s FX Return, and although it did ‘kind of work’, it effectively locked in the Headphone Volume from the ALTO ZMX862 Mixer to the Main Level and Control Room Volume, which I had to adjust way down in order to not overdrive the Mustang III amplifier. I wasn’t getting much headphone amplitude that way. That is what made me think of using the AUX Circuits – there seems to be Volume Controls Everywhere in the AUX Circuit, so you can balance all the Volumes and keep the headphone volume on a different branch of the circuit. It was all very handy, as soon as I figured out what it was all for. But yes, this new ALTO ZMX862 Mixer works a lot better in this application. With the old Peavey, I had to keep the Master Volume of the Amp really low because the Peavey Signal into the Amp could not be adjusted down far enough so that the Amp had a chance to work in its Sweet Spot. My next project will be running a mixed audio signal to a Video Camera, and so the ability to set those Output Levels will definitely come in handy there too. I love this new ALTO ZMX862 Mixer. But if anything squirrelly happens ‘down the road’ I will be sure to come back and take off a few Stars and explain why.

I " HIGHLY RECOMMEND " this mixer its great. Solid, and great for podcasters.

The Alto ZMX52 is a great little mixer: Over view the Mixer is small and compact but looks good to any Podcast or recording system. After really looking a this unit I see it as a Podcast /Webcast mixer at a great price and 100% perfect for a podcast. I highly advice using the XLR jack with phantom power, some microphones say 48V , my 48V Microphones had no problems with this mixer and medium setting it was perfect for my use. The gain was only set at 10DB I had up to 50 to use on gain so plenty of power. The mixer is designed to work with mono- or stereo inputs and has an stereo/mono Aux in and out. There is zero interference or humms and it is located 2feet from a florescent light with no problems. Its solid with a little weight to it does not feel cheap at at 49.00 its allot of mixer in compact unit. What I can do with this unit is use the XLR jack with phantom power Mic, has input from my pc music and also allow calls to come in all for my podcast why the extra inputs do not have an EQ I found they are not needed. Has a nice output level light as well. A neat addition to this is taking the aux inputs and allowing them to go to the headphones, or to mix or both. with two buttons. Pro's Great price, simple setup simple to operate, has a XLR jack with phantom power which works great. Small enough for a desk, but enough options for novice or hobby users. Built tough has many uses and perfect for podcast. No interference or humm reported on other brand mixer in this price range. I will say it has a nice cool factor with the way its setup all knobs are color coordinated for easy identification. Line inputs have level and l/r adjustments. Cons: I guess if there was one it has just one XLR jack with phantom power, not that you need two microphones and there are two other 1/4 jacks where one nonXLR jack mic could be used I tried and it works ok. Final notes: This is solid and built for professional use, but does not have all options the ones over $100.00 do. That said for $49.00 its great deal and has highest ratings of any mixer in its price and class. At this price even though there is only one XLR jack with phantom power, you could afford two of them. I " HIGHLY RECOMMEND " this mixer its great.

this was the perfect buy for us

After tons and tons of research, this was the perfect buy for us! We're a small band (usually just Guitar, Violin, & 2 vocals) and this mixer works great for us! I was looking for something with on-board effects AND an AUX mix, and this serves both functions perfectly. The effects are all pretty good, and controls are intuitive and simple.

I am happy with this mixer!

I previously bought another mixer (ammoon 4 channel console), which had an issue, the tendency of picking up system audio through the mic/line in input. I returned it for this Alto ZMX682 mixer. I was a bit concerned as I read from the manufacturer's support area of their site that the mixer isn't ideal to use with a desktop computer. However, I made it work with mine by purchasing a stereo line in to USB cable. The mixer has 48v phantom power, which I needed for my AT2020 condenser mic. It worked great. Excellent build quality and color. The few qualities/features that set this mixer apart from the ammoon's version is that the ZMX862 has a dedicated control room/phones and main to aux switches. This helped to turn off my voice feedback (I didn't need to hear myself all the time). Most importantly, I don't hear system audio through mic/line input! It has an actual power switch, so that I didn't have to constantly pull the plug out when not in use. It has far more pots to use, as well as have a long meter to measure audio sources. It's a pretty powerful console as I don't need to raise much gain or volume for anyone to hear me speak. The system audio comes in clean and clear! The mixer so far has satisfied my needs! I highly recommend it.

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