Roland M48 Personal Mixers

Published by Loop Community on January 25, 2012January 25, 2012

In one of our previous posts, we walked through what an Aviom system is and the components involved in it. I would highly recommend reading that first if you’ve never used an Aviom system since this is really a comparison of the Roland product against the industry standard in personal monitor mixing.  Now we’re going to take a look at Roland’s M48 system and what makes it better and what makes it worse, than the Aviom setup.

What’s the Same?

Take a look at this picture of the Roland M-48 Personal Mixer:

You can see a lot of the same functions from the Aviom personal mixers. It has a store/recall functions, independent volume control of 16 channels, bass/treble and master volume controls.  All fairly standard stuff that lines up with Aviom.  Also, the same as Aviom, it attaches to a distribution unit via Ethernet cable and can be powered from the distributor.  Essentially, that is where the similarities end.

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