StudioLive Series III 16R Digital Rack Mixer with Studio One Pro Software

This is without a doubt the best rack mount mixer bang for the buck. We only tour with Oreos us and this rig is rock solid. No problems and so customizable that we haven’t even begun getting to the limitations of the mixer. Don’t waste your time with behringer/tascam/soundcraft rack mixers. Just get a presonus 16R and know that is performs circles around everything else.

Used it to build a live box. Works perfectly!

This was an absolutely abysmal experience. I had to leave one star just for the opportunity to explain how miserable it was. The unit had an invalid serial number and would not register. When I opened Universal Control, it was operating under limited functionality until the firmware was updated, which it would not do. The product support through Amazon was some poor lost soul who was reading a script and seemed to have no idea what this "thing" is or what it does. I emailed the seller in California and never got a response because what they did was send me a piece of garbage. You should buy gear like this from Sweetwater or some other group who knows what they are selling and how to help you if there is a problem. Not to mention a "brand new" "unused" piece of equipment that is not already registered on someone else's Presonus account.

I purchased this to replace my old Aardvark Pro Q10 recording. Being that the company no longer makes the units or supports them, and they only work with Windows XP, I needed a major upgrade. The PreSonus StudioLive 16R is a great upgrade. It sounds really good. It has all the channels I need, for now. I can record my full drum kit of 9 mics and still have room for bass, electric guitar, keyboards (L & R), Vocals, Sax and Acoustic Guitar. It took some time to get used to, but I am close to being comfortable with it. Couple of things that I think should've been built it are as follows: 1) A boost for line level guitars (Electric, Bass, etc) without the use for a DI. The Aardvark Pro Q10 actually had a button for guitars that would boot the signal. For guitars I'm maxing out the Pre-Input button and it could be louder 2) Output Aux Channels should be stereo. When I output these channels to my PreSonus HP6 headphone monitoring system, I have to set it to Mono because the outputs of this unit is only Mono. The inputs for the Aux in the HP6 are stereo. 3) There should be an output to the Control Room/Phones. I'm having to send the signal from the Phone output into my HP60. That output is in the front. It would be great to have that in the back of the unit. 4) Ability to send signal to the phones mixer through routing in the software. In addition to the phone volume knob on the unit. I don't regret purchasing this unit. It's a great replacement to my old Aardvark Pro Q10 module. But, because of some of the limitations, I had to make some "creative" adjustments.

I love this piece of equipment! It put into one deep rack space an entire mixing board that took up external space to my rack.

sin duda esta Consola es un gran producto pero al parece presonus esta olvidando las actualizaciones y compatibilidades, cuando la compre llegue a probarla y tuve un problema de compatibilidad, universal control reconocia mi consola pero esta no lograba comunicarse de manera correcta para ser usada como interfaz de grabacion, el dispositivo nunca logro actualizarse de version y al no poder ser usada como interfaz de grabacion decidi regresarla. No se si probablemente la unidad que compre vino con algun problema o simplemente presonus debe revisar para windows 11 el dirver de compatibilidad. Aún así considero que es un buen producto. Solo tener en cuenta esto que digo antes de comprarlo.

This thing is small, reliable, responsive and packed with features. I’m using it for front of house, monitor and rehearsal space mixes. The surface interface is adaptable and little tricky to setup, but worthwhile.

I tried for a full day to get it to connect to my higher quality gaming computer made by Ibuypower but their driver which is called Universal Control just would not work to connect it to my computer via USB. And, they have no phone support so I was on my own with their sometimes confusing website . There were some tips on there for such issues as I was having but nothing worked . So rather than keep being frustrated I just gave up and returned it .

Llego antes del tiempo marcado, cerrado y con todos sus accesoriis, pude regustrarlo y me dieron acceso al software, excelente sonido y una herramuenta muy completa para mi estudio.

Le produit est exactement ce que je m'attendais. Très satisfait du produit, du service et de la livraison.

Excelente mezcladora, reemplazó a una studiolive 16.0.2 firewire. Misma calidad aun más portátil.