Mixers and consoles
Analogue mixers, podcast consoles and Fairlight surfaces that combine sources, set levels and send the mix to a recorder, stream or PA.
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How to choose an audio mixer
Channel count and type. Count microphone inputs separately from line inputs; a four-channel automixer and a four-channel line mixer solve different problems. Shure's SCM262 and SCM268 handle small rooms, the SCM810 scales to eight.
Automixing. An automixer opens the channel that is being spoken into and closes the rest. For boardrooms, panels and houses of worship this removes the live operator; for a scripted podcast it is unnecessary.
Desktop or rack. Podcast and streaming consoles live on the desk with the mics. Installed mixers live in a rack, are set once and are not touched again.
What it feeds. Hollyland's MELO P1 is a desktop podcast console with its own outputs; Blackmagic's Fairlight Desktop Console and Console Channel Fader are control surfaces for DaVinci Resolve, not standalone mixers — they need a workstation behind them.
Podcast-focused consoles also appear in podcast kits; buy them from whichever page you arrived on — it is the same product.
