I am totally thrilled with the ease of use (once you get accustomed the the vast array of adjustment possibilities). I run it through a 300 watt stereo amp and have great success in a small venue and there is still more available if needed. I recommend this to garage bands and small churches whole heartedly.

I am not an authority on sound engineering, but if you need something that this board doesn't already have on board, you just don't know what you're doing and trying to mask problems.

I appears to be built well, but not too heavy. The finish and all marking are done nicely, I expect to wear them off years down the road.

I thought this was a great return on investment. We play bluegrass/gospel music in various places. This doesn't pay in money, you get it back in blessings. I researched this expendature for about 2 months before I threw down the money, and have not regretted ot one second.

I've had no problems and therefor no support

A few more glowing l.e.d.s would make it "appear" more active, but after using it a while, you know it is alive.

Country/Gospel

The sound out of the board is pretty much ok however the IMP's lack a huge amount of head room.

Tons of features however it is not the simplest mixer in the world to use. Lots of routing options 4 aux sends are nice and the effect processor on board,although not the best are handy.

Hey lets face it...It's not a super high quality mixer. You do get what you pay for. I have limited funds and this mixer fit the bill for my home studio. I lost channels 4,5 and 7. This was an easy fix however.Inside there is a large ribbon cable that eventually comes free from the main board. When this happens, open up the box carefully and insulate the entire ribbon cable with duct tape on the side that sits up against the main board. This will prevent the ribbon cable from shorting out any channels. A clue for this happening is that you loose the trim from any channel from 4 to 7.Oh and guess what..it's intermittent. Great on Gig night. Thats exactly where the ribbon cable sits under. Bad design. A service tech could do it for you fo 25 bucks.

Again you get what you pay for.

Behringer told me to go to a autherised dealer since my warrenty was up. Thanks for that.

Hobbyist,Musisian

Rock Country

The sound replicates very well without noise. Levels and EQ adjust the way you would expect a mixer to do.

It provides all the features and actually much more than might be expected in a mixer at this price.

This is where I'm having problems. I was quit happy with the unit, it's solid and seems well built and has been "on the road" with me. I've had it almost 6 months and it was great then all of a sudden channel 2 went dead. I tested it at home and discovered that ch 2 was intermittent, then discovered that channels 4 & 8 also might not want to work all the time. A strange problem that doesn't seem to be related to loose connections. It is now in Chicago for warranty repair and we'll see what comes of that....

Despite the aforementioned problem I don't know how you could find a better value in this type of a mixer.

it took a week or so but the company seems to be wanting to help me out.

I like the looks of the mixer

semi-pro

classic rock/pop

I've had this Mixer for about 9 months and love it. I use it in a home studio and plan to buy another one for portable live sound.

Haven't had to call support even though I have quite a few Behringer products:)

Active musician/Recording Engineer

Rock

The sound is all you where looking for. Quality sound? I'm using this with a QSC 2450 power amp and Behringer speakers B1520 and is all i need for my gigs.

What else a rock band of 5 needs?

So Far So Good.

Compare to other brands features and quality, this is the best buy you're gonna get.

Haven't needed yet, and i have behringer Gx-212 Guitar amp and is still working like the first day. this has prove me the is the better buy. good quality plus $ save.

From now on I,m a Behringer Customer.

Active Band Member

Clasic Rock , Metal, Blues. Alternative.

The on boards effects aren't great sounding. I was able to find a decent reverb setting for live performances. I've powered it with separate amps and speakers, and with a Mackie setup of woofer, and powered speakers. I ran 5 Mics, 2 keyboards, 2 drum mics, and bass, and guitar thorugh it.

Lots of differant ways to set up system. I used the sub outs to a poweramp and speakers for sound reinforcement in big areas. Also as output to a monitor system. The aux sends were nice to use for monitor system, as one could set up separate mix to differant monitors.

I was very careful with this console, Have a nice padded case, and never was dropped or have any thing spilled on it. It has not held up well. One of the sub out signal didn't work. When I was comfortable enough with the function of the mixer. I used it for about 10 gigs, before the gain pots, and volume sliders became intermittant on 4 channels. Sometimes it would work fine and then it would drop out. Unfortunatelly (my fault) I didn't use this mixer playing out for about 6 months and the problems started after the warranty. So I did not send it back for repair. However I was able to take it apart and clean all the components. I got all channels working again, but it didn't last long. 2 channels crapped out again.

Has lots of features, for this price range.

I haven't dealt with the company or service. Will be replacing it soon.

The unit looks good, and is set up simular to the Mackie boards.

Active Musician

All Kinds, play everything in a Wedding / Club band. See CLOUDNYNE.COM

This is the cleanest sounding behringer mixer i have ever used. It has a sound quality only rivaled by the mackie 1642 for boards this size.

The internal FX are great. It is easy to insert an effect by using AUX 3. The presets are use just about any effect you can think of and more.

I have toured with this board and it held up great even though i kept it in a soft case (mackie 1642 case from mackiegear.com). The pots and buttons are not the most ergonimic but for the price im really not going to complain.

I would not buy and other board for the money. It has 10x more than any other board in his price range.

It wonderful, it solved all my audio problems that i was doing with a 16 8 carvin board and in a 1/4 of the size

Live Theatre

Decent sound quality.

Pretty good features.

POS. I have 6 dead channels, no more headphone outs and the worst sounding aux returns ever. All this and i baby my equipment. you get what you pay for.

bad quality makes the value go way down.

whatever. i dont even try.

No i dont.

All kinds

All kinds

While it worked, the product performed well. Nice sound and effects.

It needs an EQ screen to beeter set the levels.

This mixer went dead in the middle of a concert. Complete power failure. I had only had it for 2 months.

I reported my failure to Behringer, but I have recieved no resopnse. It seems they are all talk and no action. But in my case, there isn't even any talk. It's a very dissappointing experience. I won't buy anything Behringer again

Rock

owned and used for 6 mos.. That is, until it broke. I thought it sounded OK, until I bought a Mackie (again, because the 2442fx broke). Now, I realize how bad the preamps sound.

broke in 6 mos. of studio use. still don't have it back from warranty service after 7 weeks.

Those guys at Behringer are useless. Especially Mark, the service manager of whatever the hell he is.

active pro musician...recording engineer and producer.

rock, jazz, folk, country

As a mobile DJ, this UB mixer sounds ok if you do not care about sound. I use it as a monitor to play and record music. I had to buy a sonic maximizer (BBE 882 I) in order to have crystal clear sounding highs, midrange and bass. The parametric equalizer is not all that great; there need to be more clarity added to these features.

Alot of features. There are alot of options available for a performer or a band. If you are a moile DJ you will use only about 1/4 of them. At least you get your money's worth.

If you know what you are doing, this mixer is very easy to set up. If on the other hand, you are not as experience, the manual is very helpful. Very straight forward if hooked up correctly.

Great features and looks. The construction is pretty solid; but after a while the board will start shorting out unexpectedly. This will provoke you to get another one; but before you do get a technician to open it up to see what's wrong. It will cost more if you ship it to Behringer if the warranty if expired.

The value of this mixer is good for the money. Did not know it was going to give me problems within two years.

I have other Behringer equipment and asked how should I go about hooking them up. All I got was manuals with other options emailed to me. The person was not able to tell me what to do via email. It is a good thing I know about equipment, so I did it myself. I am having problems with the UB mixer. I emailed behringer about a week ago, so far no response.

I will try and fix my mixer myself since the warranty is expired. I checked other mixers and only behringer makes nice looking ones. Maybe I will get the UB-1832 instead and see how that goes. I would not buy the UB-2442 again because of my experience with it and I do not need one this big for my DJ rack, the 1832 shoule be fine.

Mobile DJ, Hobbyist

R &B, Soca, Dancehall & Reggae, Spanish (all types)

Sounds pretty good. Pre-amps are good. Could be a little warmer.

Nice effects.

I owned it for a little over a year and the headphone jacks and Channel/Track One are both on the fritz, so I will have to replace it. I guess $300 gets you a year's worth of play... you decide for yourself if that's acceptable or not.

You get what you pay for. It's a good sounding mixer, but it only lasted for about a year. Apparentely I'm not the only person who has experienced these problems.

Still waiting to hear from them.

It's light, which is nice if you ever have to transport it. It looks ok to me.

I have done some recordings with this board and have been pleased. The built in effects are kind of a nice bonus, although I never used them....seemed a bit to noisy. Who puys a mixer for built in effects though.

This board has everything and more then all the other boards in the same catagory.

Have had the board for about 2 years, haven't had a problem. Performed up to the expectations I had.

Behringer products have the best value. Never had a problem. Seen boards with the same amount of inputs for 3x's the cost.

metal\industrial

I am taken back a little by people who just hate the thought of Behringer gear. I have the UB2442 and also owned the MX2442A, years of quiet, great sounding recordings with no problems. I have recorded on the Mackie 1604 and the mixer are almost identical in sound. I don't hate Mackie for charging what they charge, but I definitely can't hate Behringer for maintaining standard and charging less. Do not believe people ranting about behringer is cheap, go test it for yourself, I think you will be highly pleased.

Same as Mackie 1604 board

I have no complaints with the UB2442 as far as quality, the silver is kind of cool for look.

Maybe be a Mackie copy, but oh well - money well spent.

Haven't had a need to use Behringer support.

Own one, use it daily.

R&B, Hip Hop

I have used this UB2442FX pro as a monitor board for a show recently The main board was a mackie 1604 VLZ The VLZ has no XLR outs, akward placement of XLR jacks and direct outs,has no onboard effects and Sound Quality of the 1604VLZ and UB2442 are practically the same! I have found that the ub2442 is much more accomadating for my needs in my own personal studio and would recommend it to anyone! Get rid of your expensive mackie's and buy this board! You'll be alot happier and you will have plenty of left over money to spend on other things and is around 3 times the price

Everything you need for live production/sound recording is here in this mixer. 99 Digital effects can be assigned to individual channels at individual volume levels or these effects can be muted entirely with a footswitch. 8 direct outs on channels 1-8 for connectiong to another monitor or recording rig. 4 subgroups with 2 outs each 2 headphone outs 2 main outs 2 control room outs 4 aux outs This thing is AWESOME

This Product is high quality and is very durable. The only scratch on this board was from when i installed it in a custom made rack and scraped the rack ear with a screw driver

this product is worth more than twice what i paid for it. I have compared it with the Mackie 1604VLZ in live sound and the UB2442fxpro put the mackie to shame for 1/3 the cost

i have had no problems with this board and i dont think i ever will

this board RULZ

rock, rap rock, emo, punk, hardcore, ska...the list goes on