Denver Open Mic Band Night Instrument Provided

I run an acoustic musician's Open Mic Night in a local restaurant/bar. 2 Powered speakers and a Peavey 8-channel mixer. Using a 20 snake, I provide connections for 3 mics and 3 instrument connections via 2 Direct Boxes. It's a small room venue, and the PDC22's work flawlessly. They lowest price per port, and they perform as well as much more expensive products. Surprisingly, the signal is cleaner than plugging the instrument directly into the mixer. Couldn't have asked for a better solution. Great bang-for-the-buck!

Wow, this works really well. I bought it for the band at our church. Makes it very easy for someone who plays an instrument and sings to have a decent in-ear monitor without spending a fortune. Very solid all-metal construction. Setup and use are very simple; the diagrams & labels silk-screened onto the top make it easy to see what should plug in where. As a nice additional touch, it doubles as a direct box for the instrument input. I highly recommend the optional MSC106 mic stand adapter if you're using this on stage. Only drawback is that you need a long cable or an extension for your ear monitor / headphones. If you mount this on a mic or music stand, you don't have a lot of room to move. We'll be buying a mix of these and the 1-channel PM50s to move our whole band to in-ear monitors.

We use a snake combining vocal mic, instrument mics, D.I.s, and monitor cables for each band member, running to their area of the stage from the stage digital mixer, and this product makes it easy to customize those changes and change out cables when necessary.

Works great for my light pollution issues here in Denver when photographing the night sky.

Useful instrument that can open various fields of interest !

I have had one of these for years. I am not a singer, but a band member who has to take 3 or 4 vocals a night to provide rest to the actual singers. That said, this always makes me sound better than any other mic. A tech told me it is a simple matter of more gain before feedback. If the gain is way up, the mic picks up all the nuances my voice, so I can do a lot with the little I've got. Whatever. I've used the beta58 since the 90's, I wish it were the same price as its grandaddy the SM58. But that's not how it works.

It's a great mic. It can record any voice or instrument!!!

This is my first mixer so take my novice review with a grain of salt, but I just ran an open mic night and it went great. Used the first two inputs for Mic's and the 2nd two for guitars running through DI Boxes. Also used the built-in usb i/o to run a midi keyboard vst. Everything went well. My only complaint so far is that I wish there were mute buttons on the channels so you can just mute them without messing with the levels. But for the price, what can you complain about, not much.....

If anyone in your band wants more me control of their in-ear foldback for both their vocals and an instrument (or two instruments), then this is THE box for them! Ok so it costs more than the 2 channel competition, but this has the essential 3rd channel the others lack, plus an integral stereo DI box, so the total cost is much the same. What is really nice is the way it can be set for mono or stereo inputs on both the instrument channel and the main foldback. The cct diagram even contains instructions to convert the mic channel for line level inputs. A really useful box, and a much better buy in real terms than the competing products, for use by real musicians!

It comes open very easily, so just use a rubber band to keep it closed (simple enough). I find it to be quite useful.