BEHRINGER ULTRALINK MS8000

I have installed a total of 6 of these into various racks. Their isolation splits are transparent, and have solves issues when using other venues ceiling speaker system (isolated out kills the hum) This is a simple cheap, and effective solution to ground loop and phantom power crossover. (alternate sound systems, monitor splits, and recording interfaces. Pros- Reversible design, ground lift, Sturdy metal design, Transparent ISO split Cons- LINK switch is easy to hit, and also switches are not easy to see if in or out, could have a mark on the side you see when up/off Picture1 (back of gig box first 3 splits were put in, internally it houses monitor and recording. Picture2 (musicians) this was it in the real world, running a show.

I'm using the MS8000 ahead of a Behringer UMC1820 USB interface. This lets me split each microphone between a monitoring mixer and the recording interface so I can have no latency monitoring of each microphone. Works excellent. I didn't notice the difference in levels between the direct and transformer output -- but it doesn't matter, I just turned them up at the monitoring mixer to appropriate levels. A couple things I wasn't expecting -- it's really small. Iike less than 3 inches depth. Plan your rack accordingly -- it's hard to plug stuff in and out of this guy when racked above and below much deeper gear. It also doesn't require any power, so you don't need to budget for another power outlet to run it. It would have been nice if one or two of the channels had additional support for 1/4 inch TS / TRS input and output, but I was able to use adapter cables to make it work.

I do video recordings for bands and really needed to add multi-track audio recording to my live gigs. I use 2 of these to split 16 channels into the FOH mixer and a Zoom L-20 multi-track on stage. The unit is quiet, we could not hear a difference and offers ground lift switches, although I have never needed to use them. Phantom power passes without an issue. The bands have no problem with me using these so I'm really happy to have purchased them.

This item was received fast abundantly exactly as described. It works perfectly as a mic-pre to add 8 extra ADAT inputs to my Apollo audio interface. Super clean!

Grat product

I ordered one of these on Amazon, but it didn't arrive on time, so I also purchased one locally. I wanted the ability to record live shows, without having to deal with feeds from the live sound guy, as these would likely be subgroup feeds and post EQ, post fade, etc. I wanted to be able to record without either of us having to compromise. The Behringer mic splitter seems to be the cheapest on the market, so it seemed like a good place to start, given I don't really make any money from my recordings. I know there are 8-way splitters that can cost into the thousands, so I wondered how good a US$99 could be. For testing, I set up a large diaphragm condensor mic and ran a link channel and transformer channel into adjacent inputs on my MOTU 896HD. I recorded some speech and singing and then compared the direct recording vs the transformer coupled recording. I could pretty reliably tell the difference with the slight loss of high frequency from the transformer coupled channel. To make sure I wasn't being led by knowing which channel of the recording I was hearing. I grouped the solo button of the two channels and was able to randomly solo one channel, without seeing it. I would then guess which channel I was listening to and then look to see if I was right. After a couple of dozen tries at this, I was right about 92% of the time - it depended what part of the recording I was listening to, but where there was plenty of high frequency content, I aways got it right. Other than a slight loss of high frequency, at up around 10K or so, I heard no distortion. I would guess that a higher-end splitter would probably have a less noticeable loss of HF. So I guess that's what you get for $99. If I was to make a critical recording, I would want to use the direct link outs, not the transformer coupled outs. A tiny bit of HF loss is probably less an issue for the live venue sound.

I did not expect this to work as well as it did. For the price this cannot be beat. If you need something perfect then go spend 1k on it. If you are a small gigging band then this will work for you. When the signal is split there is a slight drop but it's not bad and totally makes this worth it. I really expected a much more dramatic drop in signal so i was pleasantly surprised.

The unit works but the sound quality is not what it should be. Spend the money and buy the ART splitter.