StudioLive AR16c Analog Mixer with Studio One Pro Software

An outstanding mixer, one that solves real world engineering challenges in a project studio. I love it, after I got it all dialed it. I'm happy as could be with this purchase. The Aux Channels, Headphone mix. Stereo channels. All of it, very cool, and syncs up using USB-C. Well enough to record and use multi-tracking techniques. Using the Mixer like a switcher in a sense. That little delay you hear? when you're putting down that next track? It's gone. I love this feature.

EDIT: I swapped to a different USB-C cable and everything began working as intended. Who knew that would be the stupid difference?! I love Presonus products, especially since they are right down the interstate from me. This is a great little mixer packed full of features. The pairing with a PC takes a little small learning curve to understand. The mixer came with a copy of Studio One Pro 7 and a buttload of extra sample sets and plugins. (see edit above) The only issue I'm having is that for some reason I'm getting no sound returned through USB from my PC on the Super Channel. I have everything configured correctly to the best of my knowledge and following Presonus support's checklist. I'm able to send audio from the mixer to the PC to be recorded just fine, but I get no audio back to the mixer on playback. Granted, this is a pretty big issue not being able to play back my recorded audio. I'm still working to get it resolved but I haven't heard back from Presonus support for 2 days now. Once that's fixed this will be a really solid unit doing everything I need. Hopefully it's something simple and possibly with my PC setup and not the mixer or software itself. If I could make one little change to the mixer, I would add more stereo input pairs. I don't know of any manufacturer that makes a mixer for us keyboard people that gives more than 4 stereo inputs.

I have purchased over seven of these for the production of a TV show that I do for my son. He was seven when he started. Every six to nine months the unit starts to act up and then dies. I try to return it to the company and then it is gone for months and then I get it back and it might run for a month or two more. in the mean time I cannot be down. I have a show to produce every week so I have to go and buy yet another one. Here is the kicker. IT IS A GOOD BOARD when it works so I keep having to buy it. So if you want a good mixer it is great. but if you want it to last. this is not the best solution. Now this new one I bought this week. Is already turning off by itself and it has only been a week. So I gotta go back to tech support and I bet they are going to want me to mail it in again. I can't have downtime. My studio runs 4 days a week.

Easy to setup. Good quality mixer.

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I love this product from Presonus. How many times do you feel great about the company you buy a product from? Not all that often. PreSonus just does it all the right way. Besides it being a great mixer for music, Podcasting, anything you want to throw at it, they give you so much free software it is absolutely incredible. They are generous it's incredibly well priced, and I absolutely love that it is also pretty easy to use. Good tech support when needed too. Great company and a great product.

I bought this console as it had effects.... hoever, the effects are terrible...pretty much unuseable.

I had been making music in garage punk bands since the early 90s, but was never able to figure out how or get the tools to record multitrack audio for mastering. That was until I bought a StudioLive AR16c 18-channel mixer. With this sweet digital/analog hybrid mixer, I can record and edit in Studio One and master music. Indeed, with the StudioLive AR16c, I literally have no more excuses to not make music.