I found a Panasonic WR-8112 audio mixer for $80 + ship. Does anyone know where I can find out about this piece and if it maybe worth it. I really only need it as a line mixer for my sampler and keyboards runnig thru my puter just to hear sound to write and maybe upload raw beats to my pc to send online. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This model is "a little before my time" and slightly "off-my radar"...

It should certainly work as a 12 input line mixer and probably has more headroom and less x-talk than a current Mackie or Behringer mixer.

I personally bought a RAMSA WR-8616 back in 1987 for about $4,000.00-$5,000.00 after comparing all other possibilities ...today they sell on e-bay for $300.00.

I'm still glad that I did...

good luck,


WR-8112 12 x 4 x 2 x 1-recording/ sound reinforcement mixer. 1986-1989

44 lbs. Shipping weight.

It pre-dates the RAMSA WR-S4400 series mixers

The WR-8112 retailed for $3,290.00 in 1989

The WR-8118 was $3,990.00.

I had the 16x4 version of that mixer (as Doris knows). It had +4 unbalanced inputs on RCAs!

Advanced Musical Electronics sold it for me a few years ago for $300 or something ridiculous. They were very good mixers, although the headroom wasn't abundant.

Hey Nick,

RAMSA made many professional consoles that are still being used in television/film post production, music recording and live sound reinforcment. They are still considered by many top industry pros to be amongst the best available.

FYI...the 8100 series was developed after the venerable WR-840 touring mixers (YOU know the 48-chan. ones that were on tour with the "Rolling Stones") which BTW happen to be +4 balanced with tons of gain and headroom...

I think YOU'RE mistakingly referring to a different series of RAMSA consoles... (since there was no 16-chan. version of the 81 series) and I think it was only "YOUR" RAMSA mixer that suffered from LOW headroom because of "YOUR" (bad) RAMSA Carma...have you considered Fung Shui?

and Nick, wouldn't YOU (and the whole world) be much better off with a Behringer mixer anyway? I read YOUR (GLOWING)review...on that POS!!!

Love,

Doris

I wanted to be able to say that the Behringer was a POS, but it really isn't. That doesn't make it a DA7, but $1300 for that thing with four (if I remember right) pretty damn good built-in fx, etc. - it's pretty hard to beat for the money. And it's not fair to compare it to the blow-out prices of a DA7, which was the alternative at the time. That mixer is built to a price, and I have to look at it in that context. Sure it has limitations and problems, but it's not a POS.

Also, I'm not dissing the Ramsa I had at all. Could it have been an 8816? Anyway, it didn't have oodles of headroom, but it was a nice mixer that served me very well for several years. My comment about the $300 was just to show how nobody wants those things anymore.