ANLEON PM200 Personal Monitor Station Multi-Channel Mixer stage monitor

I have actually limited need for the full functionality of this thing, since I’m not setup to record more than a few people, and really there’s just two pro level vocal mics, since I’m mainly set up for talk, but can also do musical vocal recording. Even for talk it’s beneficial, though I can see it’s even more useful in a full-on studio set up to record a band, though you’d want a few to be sure.For any application with multiple people on mic and wearing headphones, it’s first useful just in terms of organization. If you use a rack-mountable headphone amp, you’re either plopping it on a desk or putting it in a rack. Especially in a rack, it’s likely to be near your mixing board (if you have one), or PC if you’re just using an audio interface, though if you’re like me you’d have a DAW integrated control surface in that case, or just use a multichannel usb combo mixer and surface. Regardless, somebody is controlling the master levels either on a computer or aboard, and most main equipment like a rack will be with them, meaning you’re going to be running extra 1/4” cable to each musician or commentator’s spot, so they can have a headphone plugged in close by and not have the cable stretching from the headphone amp. Even if you need 4 or less and go with a small h-amp, only for talk could you get four people close enough to plug into the same amp - plus then they’ll be reaching over to adjust their levels.So just organizationally, if you run lines from the headphone amp to these, it gives the artist a place to plug in their headphones that’s close by and won’t keep them all tangled. Sure, you can just run a cable and have a female-female adapter, but then that would have to be secured somewhere and is definitely less clean looking to plug in to.That’s before the other significant benefits. Having not one but two inputs (line for the main mix), plus instrument for someone playing and singing or that wants to hear a certain instrument (like say lead guitar) clearly: Besides the line in, there’s a pass thru instrument input (1/4”) that has XLR L/R outputs, and the mic has its own mono input, that goes in and out as XLR.For engineers and techs, the best benefit is that artists turn their headphone mix up, and don’t increase their mic gain or something that will hurt the audio quality. It’s also a fraction of the price of distributed “smart systems” that actually connect to the mixer via usb or wifi, etc., and mostly there’s very few added benefits - a studio that uses these well can be clean and very useful.Build wise, it’s solid, no issues, no problem passing the mic signal through (no added noise), but not too heavy, so I can side mount it to a desk, which is the most convenient orientation (i/o on the bottom, so you can secure cables to the desk and keep things clean, or down a wall if there’s no desk by a musician’s spot, and level controls / power button on top).Since we have two main mics, the second being at the board, I only need one, but if I needed more ai wouldn’t hesotate. Just don’t forget you’ll need an extra XLR cable, for the mic to this, beyond your existing setup. If you’re nuts about audio quality, that can be expensive, though even with a boom in most cases it should only take a 6’ cable - depends on your setup though. Regardless, pricier XLR cables, you’re paying nainly for the connectors and construction, hence a 6’ isnt much less than 30’, so get what works. Just an easy thing to forget and without an extra you’ll be unable to connect as intended.Had it a while now too, zero issues, very happy.

The one thing that could make this better is if there were options to change the power plug to match your country. But that was a reasonably quick fix with a trip to a local electronics store

Instrument input can easily distort if the volume level is high not like the other brand like ROLLS,and same with headphone output can easily distort

I play electric guitar for our small church's worship band. Our sound person runs the same mix in all the monitors to keep it simple but it makes it a challenge to play precise parts if instruments are competing with for sound space. Some times the volume of the mix is too loud. I use this personal monitor with a pair of $20 in ear earbuds and it works great. I can dial the level of my instrument and the monitor mix. I haven't used either the Rolls or behringer products that are like this, but the price of this was better, so I figured I give it a try. Plus I can mix 2 instruments (or 1 mic and 1 instrument) and also use 2 headphones. So technically, 2 people can use it together in a pinch. I am very pleased. Also it can be run in stereo.

Don't buy. The unit is very noisy. It isn't my signal chain. I have a wireless in ear system and when i run it by itself, there is no noise. when i run it FROM this unit with everything else exactly the same, the signal is so noisy it's nearly unusable. It also is very mid-high range boosting.I play bass, and can't listen to it through this mixer. The tone is AWFUL even though the tone from my rig is very good. It almost sounds as though I'm playing bass through a telephone when I run this mixer.Save your money. Get something else.

Very good working box. I play rhythm guitar and lead vocals so it helps me to control volume of my instrument and microphone in the mix. No more complaints from me about not hearing myself. I’ve connected it through FX loop of my amp so I hear post preamped tube sound with no issues.

Great price but doesn't last over a year

Ordered this with all the expectations you think at the price point. The unit came out the box with a power switch issue. If you tried to move the unit it would turn off. Get it back on, tap the top- same thing. So I figured bad switch or power cable, whatever , send it back and have it replaced. Second came in did the the same thing. So being relatively handy I was gonna crack it open and see what was going on, two straight unit can't be bad, right?. Loosened the screws on the housing and the switched popped out. During assembly it had gotten pinched tight to the side of the housing. So I tightened everything down it is fine now. So if you get this and the switch is acting weird, unplug it and try loosening the screws 3/4 of the way and see if the switch now latches in and out freely and tighten back up. You'll save yourself the head of a return and a few days wasted waiting in a new unit.