PMXU43BT.5

This is a limited Space but I will try and hit the most important and asked for information about this mixer I bought 3 weeks ago. This information is from actual use of this mixer in a live outdoor worship stage using Powered Mackie 15” Thump speakers for mains and Yamaha Powered speakers for monitors fed by the FX send. I am a Sound Engineer/Technician with over 50yrs in sound. We usually use a Mackie 16 channel Onyx analog board here with large worship teams but in the last month have only had a single vocalist with one or two instruments so this 4 channel mixer was just fine to try out. I also have used the PYLE PMXU88BT 8 Channel which I also own and absolutely love its additional features this 4 channel PMXU43BT.5 does not have, but it’s 3X the price. Let me first say if you can buy one of the Used Like New or Good or Acceptable units from Amazon DO IT. Amazon backs these better than the new ones and both of the Pyle mixers I own were used but looked new. Starting with one of the most ask for information about this and most of the Chinese mixers is the USB functionality. 1. THE USB SECTON. All the Chinese manufactured mixers that can record via USB to a USB thumb/flash drive/stick and thus can be connected to a computer and be recorded via software like Audacity ONLY RECORDS IN MONO. This mixer does this very well. Yes there is a Left and Right channel recorded but both are the same mono combined stereo signal. So playing back the recording both left and right signals are the same. This is ok if you are recording sermons and music you will be playing back monorally as we do from our stage since the wide seated audience has to here the full sound mix. A stereo interface or recorder like the Technical Pro UREC7 for about $60 or the Zoom H1n in the picture must be connected to the mixers stereo outputs to record in stereo. On this mixer this would be the Mains out L/R, the Control Out/ Headphones using TRS stereo plugs to the recorder. Read on about the stereo capabilities or not of this mixer. 2. Recording to an empty USB Flash Drive Does Not Work and the mixer does not see the drive for some reason. If you’ve read enough reviews on these Chinese made mixers, and I have read them all on amazon you read that an MP3 File, even if its empty must be on the Flash Drive and i found out this is true. I had my daughter put one of her MP3 format songs from her MAC on it and i erased the contents but left the file there. Boom it worked. I ordered 5 Sticks from Amazon, copied that file onto all of the 5 USB sticks and they record onto on both of my Pyle mixers. It is what is is, adapt. 3. You can record (in mono) to an SD card as I did by getting a USB to SD card reader I used UGREEN on Amazon. Recording on the SD Micro TF only worked if i used the larger adapter inserting it into the larger SD slot. Playback worked great to for those who want to play music. Here I just assume it can playback stereo music as the Bluetooth functionality is definitely stereo if you have stereo music on a USB drive or SD card. 4. There is a mode button on the USB player that gets you to the 3 functions, Bluetooth, USB playing if a Drive is in the slot, Record if there is a Drive in the slot. Recording starts then when you press the left most button as the instructions say with REC on the display and timer starts to count up the seconds/minutes of the recording which I have done for recordings over and hour. To stop press again. I have not been able to pause recording by pressing left button as manual says. It just stops recording. 5. Bluetooth works great and I got and open air distance of 80 feet to the stage and it worked great so the guy who said he picked up his phone and lost connection had other problems. 6. There is no separate volume for recording from the USB connection. The manual says that you can press two middle buttons marked - and + to lower and raise the USB volume but I found this is not for the recording function only when playing through USB. In that case the LED screen with indicate a change in volume, again as tested will not lower the recording volume to stop it from distortion. The feed for the recording comes off the main outputs after the main fader so if you run it to hot (to much gain, to loud) you will get distortion on the recording. This did not seem to be as bad on my Pyle 8 channel mixer but as others have said on Amazon and YouTube do trial and error since there is no way to listen in to the recording input/output separately. Ive just noticed with this mixer if your first green LED light is on that’s at -10DB its distorting. The output signal to main L/R is at a decent level here so that may be ok to feed your amplifier or powered speakers which should set near maximum gain if you need louder volume out of your speakers for live use. If you are just recording or practicing you will not have a problem with this. You can think about using the stereo Control Out to feed your main mix using the headphone volume to control it and the main mix fader for recording only. This is not a quiet board and puts out plenty of signal for use through a 100ft snake we use. I found it to be low noise also so good there. Each channel does have a red clip/overload led and it does not clip easily so you can run the input gain knob hot for maximum output if needed so that’s great news. 7. The USB section to playback either USB drives or Bluetooth needs stereo channels 3 and 4 to do so. A press of the ‘3/4 USB’ button in the USB section is required to select playback. If used you can’t also use the 3/4 1/4” channel inserts but can simultaneously use Channel 1 and 2 mic/line inputs to mix into the playing music on 3 and 4 with separate volumes and 3 band EQ for each. In this case you cant also record at the same time. 8. It is great to know however that if you are recording through the USB slot you do not have to press the button mentioned above down to the USB setting and eliminate the use of Channels 3 and 4. What I am saying is that your can record onto USB drive or computer Via double male USB cable (included) and also use channels 3 and 4 for inputs which is great news. 9. So functionality of the USB section on both of my Pyle mixers is similar but better on the 8 channel like having REPEAT for MP3 files and Direct Access to files on a USB stick finding them first by number then pressing in on the control knob for start when you want. On this 4 channel mixer you just press the forward backward buttons and it goes to that file within seconds but will not continue playing the original file until you decide which number to stop at so there is an interruption in the audio output until it starts the new file. 10. THE FX SECTION Here my 2 pile mixers are very different. For this 4 Channel mixer the 16 bit Analog effects give you a reverb/echo combination that are adjusted by the choice of one of 16 and then further changed with the repeat knob. The level knob is how much effect goes into the overall FS/SEND. Then any amount of this up to the setting of the level knob for each channel is set by that channels individual FX/SEND knob just above the channel volume (level) knob. There is slight variations in this section but it is sufficient to give some depth to live and recorded music and i use a slight bit on the singers. The first three or so are a reverb then a delay is added too. What is important to know is that there is a outboard send and return on this mixer for this effects bus, something most mixers this size don’t have. A better FX processor like a Behringer Virtiualizer can be added by sending to it then returning to the mixer via these jacks. 11. This FX bus can be used in many other ways also since it has a direct send (output). I use it for stage monitors where I am sending one special mix to several on stage self powered speakers as I mentioned earlier. You can adjust how much of each channel goes into the monitor mix using the FX knobs on each. This is a fantastic option on such a small mixer. What’s even more amazing is it allowed me to use some effects in the main mix at the same time that evidently did not show up in the stage monitor mix. This FX bus if you don’t have to run stage monitors can also be used to send a signal to an outboard recorder or near field monitors or audio to other speakers in other rooms etc. The Return does not have to be a return of the sent audio it can be used as a separate input perhaps form another mixer to the mains controlled by the RETURN volume knob. 12. THIS IS NOT A TRUE ALL STEREO MIXER. I got this mixer on a cyber Monday sale and it was already discounted as a used unit so yea I got it for just over $30 and that’s a STEAL. But even at its normal price for around $70 with USB playback and recording and Bluetooth and its other features it beats most other small mixers on features so I just LOVE it’s functionality and compactness. However it is only stereo using channels 3 and 4 which have left and right inserts. The USB/Bluetooth is also stereo input and so the output to the mains/ headphones/ Control Out are stereo signals.. Channel1 and 2 are mono Channels and cannot be panned to left or right but goes equally as a mono signal to the mix, there is not PAN knob on the unit on any channels even 3 or 4. This is not an issue for me since we use mono speakers but would if you wanted to record in stereo and pan the mikes off center for stereo separation. Many small mixers are like this some have PAN controls and there are Pyle models that do but may also delete some of the features this one has This is a TOP contender for small mixers for me

I'm going to buy three more of these for specific uses... But regarding this one... Im a professional drummer and I use in ear monitors. Our soundcheck are so complicated that we have to make concessions for time... so I am constantly annoyed that I can't take the time to get proper EQ to my ears in soundcheck. I decided to buy an affordable board to feed my In Ear Amp.... So the so the sandman plugs into this board, then the board has a jumper cable to my in ear. This gives me three band EQ, and built-in effects from the board. Also allows me to mix in a standalone metronome or other sound sources.. I mounted the board and my other monitor and metronome equipment to a guitar pedalboard... so now my monitoring system is super easy to set up. no cables to plug other than plug the board to the wall, and plug my headphones in.

Didn’t expect pro quality for the price, so I wasn’t disappointed. I was surprised by the sound good quality and versatility. You can hook this up to your computer if you podcast or stream. I primarily use this for cornhole events to play music via Bluetooth and make announcements with a wireless mic. I could very well use it for wedding receptions. I picked this up because I didn’t want to take my bigger Yamaha mixer out and get that banged around. I also wanted to be compact. The Bluetooth range is about 25-30 feet with line of sight before you see drop off, which is par for a lot of low end Bluetooth devices. Definitely not better than my Yamaha or Mackie, but it works well and it is adorable. Effects are not really fantastic, so I don’t use them. If I had to do it again, I would get the 6 channel for the same price. Pretty happy with it.

Sound quality is actually amazing for the price! I run audio visual department for a couple ministries and this performs like a top tier sound board. It is portable and I take it to set up at several venues and have had zero issues with it!

I so wanted to do a video review of this one!! I had 4 mics connected (2 via wireless bridge, 2 via XLR cable), an iPad connected via bluetooth. This thing had 6 people crooning and I was the proud host at the end of the party!! Volume controls are very fine in adjustments. They probably have good quality potentiometers. I was able to finely adjust the singers' volumes to the music very efficiently. Things I didnt like: FX is just darn echo and its not that great and the fanciness wears off after few usage. There is no rhyme or reason on what 1 or 2 or 5 does. Just echoes differently. What a wasted feature. USB button switches off Bluetooth. Yep. I mean, why? Yeah, nah why? (more about this later) Things I loved: For $100 you cannot get a better reliable unit than this one. You can be up and running in no time with this one. Easy to pack and carry. I got this packed in an old backpack along with the mics and wires. The power chard just doesnt plug in, it locks! I have had drunken friends tripping over it or trying to charge their phone with it. Yeah, you read it right. This thing held on nice! My Wish list for this $100 wonder Maybe the output XLR ports could be in the side/back? Makes it look cleaner while performing? Maybe include a small kickstand in the back that will raise up the unit? For few dollars more, lighted backpanel? Now finally the support. So I couldnt get the bluetooth to play but it was pairing and all. Just no volume. I googled and youtubed but no answer anywhere. Not even on their website, manual or any holy book. With only a week left for the party, I called their support and they called me back. After few back n forth and me sharing pictures and small video link of the issue, they put me on hold for 30 minutes and came back with this pearl of analysis: Your iPad Bluetooth is higher version than what we support. Please use an older device. (Oh, I still have that email) I burst into laughter on the call. I said this, "If what you say is true, then not a single bluetooth headset will work with newer phones. Google "Bluetooth downward compatibility", love. And get back to me yeah?" So they sent it to Tier 2 and then sent me this nugget... "Our unit is not compatible with Mac - iOS" I replied to them, "Well, use your product first. Its the little button for USB that does the trick. When in USB mode, the bluetooth wont work." No reponse though.

It's a very good mixer and worth buying. Works well with wired and wireless microphones.

This item was sold as refurbished. I tested input 1 and the output before using in public . This was my mistake, inputs 2-4 were defective. Please test all of the inputs and outputs before using especially in a professional setting. You do not want to scramble like had to. This seller is offering products that have not been thoroughly tested and can be shipped defective as this unit was. It is not a deal if the refurbished products are defective returns being resold without being repaired or tested. PLEASE BEWARE that refurbished in this case means that the item was returned and in good enough cosmetic condition to be resold to you. If you trust this seller without verifying their work thoroughly you will open yourself up to embarrassment. Do not do what I did. Please shop elsewhere. “1-star” review because I can’t select “0.”

I bought this 8 track mixer after reading the capabilities, but found it fairly limited and a bit misleading. First, it claims to be a computer interface - which is true. I was able to connect it to my laptop and it seamlessly was detected as an audio device. But it only records left and right outputs, not individual tracks. So, if you were hoping for something that would allow you to remix a jam session after the fact, this will not work. 8 tracks, but not really - If you want to jam to the Bluetooth or PC interface, you have to use track 7/8. Which means you don't really have 8 tracks. The push-button allows you to either listen to the device plugged into track 7/8 or the PC/Bluetooth input. No Panning - On the single line inputs, tracks 1-4, there is no panning option. So, because of the issue with track 7/8 being used by the PC, I lost two stereo inputs. And even though I had two single-input lines, I couldn't use them for another stereo device. This would be fine if I wasn't using stereo effects or wanted to hear the sweep of the electronic drums. No multi-effects - This has a single effect, an echo reverb. And while it is fine for a vocal track, it is really limited. IMO, this is a bit of false advertising. Just because you can increase the delay and echo doesn't make this a "multi effect processor". And while adequate for jam sessions, it doesn't really sound "good". I would need a separate reverb processor to sound good. Mono Sends - I knew this before buying, but this mixer only has a single mono send/return. But since I thought I would have more than one reverb effect, I didn't think I needed it. Now I'm contemplating hooking up external effects and don't have any stereo capability. I have only had this for a few days but other than these limitations, it's not a bad mixer. I should have gone with a Behringer for the low-budget mixer. At least then most of my complaints above wouldn't be an issue. But I would have spent an extra $30-50 too... so... you get what you pay for. The sound quality is good and I don't hear any unexpected noise over the system. So, overall, it is still a good mixer if you know what to expect. And that's my biggest complaint - they overhyped its capabilities while not clearly explaining its limitations. I would not buy this one again knowing these limitations.

super recomendada, no filtra nada de ruido y tiene funciones excelentes

esta mezcladora cumple lo descrito en usos y funciones, buena calidad de audio, no trae el nombre de los efectos para la voz pero probando los va uno ubicando poco a poco, buen audio, buenos materiales y acabado para su precio. Aun sigo probandola porque me hacen falta cables pero hasta el momento todo bien.

Just a top quality 6-channel mixer which, for user £100 is crazy really. I have used Pyle products in the past including some speakers for my home cinema setup and they always deliver. This mixer is ugh quality and reliable offering versatility to the user whether you are performing and using live or whether you want to connect to a computer and record a private session etc. You have 48v phantom which is obviously perfect and ensures lovely results when working with condenser mics. The overall design and accessibility of the device is sleek and impressive. I love it.

I wanted a lower cost mixer so I would have easy control over my microphone (XLR), headphone volume and PC sound volumes...this is perfect! It's very easy to use, very easy to setup, very easy to make adjustments on the fly and has everything I want for streaming on Twitch. I borrowed a $300 mixer before using this one and those two mixers produced the exact same results...can't complain about that!

Does what it's supposed to do. Solid construction. Even enhances quality/depth of sound.