[1 x RJ45] Pleasantly surprised at the nicely ported GT-1000 guitar effects, 10 signal processing chains with 3 fx is more than enough for my needs. The touch screen is very responsive, and all settings can be reached with a minimal amount of button presses or touches. Ducking and Mix minus features are great for podcasting/interviews, plus over 30 singing and 16 vocal effects that also include auto pitch correction.


If you are a one-man band or usually only interact with another person, the included input jacks is enough to handle the job, but if your band involves more than 3 people, I'd suggest going with the Gigcaster 8 with more useful input options.


USB can output multitrack or stream and can be used to stream music from your computer.


Bluetooth can be used for phone interviews or streaming music/drum machine from your phone.



The effects button includes 8 on-screen effects to change settings or apply effects, and additional 7 pages of saved banks, so you can do quite a lot of things with it.



I love the mixer but do wish the Sound pad function and button could be implemented directly on the device. Otherwise, you need a PC with the Gigcaster app to use the sound pads.


The biggest downside is the Gigcaster app on PC is very sluggish to use and takes forever to sync settings with the board, despite having a USB-C connection. But for the most part, I don't use the app so I'd still 100% recommend this streaming mixer for it's particular appeal to the guitar players and vocal singers who wants to stream or do pod casting.

[5 VDC at 1 A] Just purchased to sue with our boom pole for an overseas documentary project. Compact, rugged and great sound.

[1 x RJ45] I will not get into the technical aspects of this mic because I am not qualified to, but this has been a great microphone for us for some time now. We use it as a shotgun on our cameras as well as attached to a fishpole. The Auray Fur Windshield is a must and does a great job in high wind situations. I recently was on a 14,000 foot peak and it was gusting. We got great audio. I recommend this mic.

[5 VDC at 1 A] Great mic for the money, takes pretty clean audio with low noise. Compared back to back with higher end mics, there is a notable difference, but it can definitely be used with confidence to get good sound.

[5 VDC at 1 A] Sennheiser continues to deliver. To my ears, this is still the best sounding mic in this price range.

[Black] I produce infomercials, interviews and interviews primarily in a studio set. My video production friends told me the upgrade my audio gear to 32 bit float. My search for 32 bit float recorders lead me to the Gigcaster 8. As of this moment, this is the only mixer that show up in B&H search with 32 bit float. My HS6, Azden mixer and related accessories went to eBay and this is now on the production bench. It is not portable, but it is transportable. Large LiFeP0 batteries and LED lighting have redefined transportable studio production.

This is my first mixer and after a week with it I am asking myself why I did not have this style mixer years ago in my video studio. If you are considering this as an alternative to Zoom or Tascam recorders be prepared to spend several days learning and there are a few more days needed to learn some of the features we never had in the past. A digital mixer with touch screen operation is a game changer in my studio.

One issue, I come out of the mixer to XLR splitters to feed all the cameras. The output ports are 1/4 TS plugs. This was fixed with a pair of 1/4 to XLR cables. The mic inputs are all XLR-1/4 combo, my Azden mixer was XLR outputs, my speakers have XLR inputs. Minor issue with an easy fix, anticipate and buy the conversion cables you are going to need.

The touch screen features take some time to learn. But once you learn them, it is clear that the economy offered by touch screen allows the creation of feature loaded devices that would not have been possible with knobs and switches. And, you are not paging through menus with joysticks and buttons. The layout is outstanding.

Does 32 bit float work. A simple but unintended test proved the point. Create a feedback loop between a mic and speaker. Then listen to the recording. There it was, a feed back loop recorded in painful splendor. LOL.

The ATEM brought broadcast video switching to low budget production studios. The Gigcaster8 does the same for audio.

[5 VDC at 1 A] Came back for more! Great mics. Nice pkg. with the fur kit.

[1 x RJ45] For the price, it gets the job done.

[1 x RJ45] Love the features and the simplicity of this gem.

[1 x RJ45] You get what you pay for here. I've used MKE 600 mics for the last 4 years and have loved the quality. Battery live is exceptional. You're not getting top of the line Sennheiser quality, but for the price, they are hard to beat.