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Yamaha is shipping an interesting new mixer. The MG102C is a ten channel board with four mic inputs and switchable phantom power, The mic input channels have 3 band equalization and push button hi-pass filters. Channel’s 1+2 have inserts, and two aux buses are provided on channel’s 1-10. Flexible output options include: stereo [main mix], control room, monitor, and headphone. What makes this mixer so unique? The MG102C includes incorporated one knob compression on mic channel’s one and two. This is a handy feature in my opinion. I would suggest light compression at the source, and proprietary software processing in post. Keep in mind this feature does not in any way hinder connectivity options if the producer prefers to incorporate an external serial processor. In this case the on-board compressors can be bypassed.

Nothing fancy here. However Yamaha offers a nice collection of affordable boards that are used by many podcasters, and the general consensus is they are capable of providing perfectly acceptable sound quality at very attractive prices.

The Yamaha MG102C retails for $129 US.