User Reviews of Yamaha n12 Digital Mixer; Yamaha N 12, N12

Underneath the hood, the Yamaha N12 is a 12-input analog mixer, combined with 16-channel digitized Firewire I O and control panel integration with Cubase LE. It has 8 XLR mic inputs and 2 stereo line inputs, plus RCA stereo aux inputs. The 8 XLR channels have built-in compressors, useful for preventing clipping on the Firewire outs. From the manual, the channels appear to be individually digitized after the input pad, compressor, and eq sections, just before the faders. As an analog PA mixer, the N12 is severely limited by having only a single stereo mixing bus, along with a dedicated internal effects loop and a single monitor bus. Aside from its useful input compressors, the Yamaha N12 falls short in capabilities to the 14-input Phonic Helix Board 18 Firewire mixer.

If you are using a Mac platform, the driver that comes with the mixer is for PC and you have to go to Yamaha website to download the driver. It took me, a tech savvy person, an hour or more to correctly download the driver. The only frustration in a sweet system