User Review
Behringer MiniCom Com800 Modeling Compressor
By Daniel Bemis - Radio Strange
The Minicom Com800 is not your normal small compressor. It uses a modeling system with 16 different presets to cover some of the bases the company felt would be of most use in a small studio. While a lot of the presets are for popular instruments, five of them could be of use near the end of a small station's sound chain. Since it also has three presets specifically for voice, alternatively it could be useful in a station's production studio or on the effects send or bus for the microphone channels. I bought the unit brand new from Amazon.com for approximately $40.
What do you get with it?
The Minicom Com800 comes with a fairly standard AC "wall wart" power supply and manuals in different languages.
Oh, and it comes with a Behringer sticker, if you like brand-name stickers for gear cases or studio decor. LOL
Is it well built?
Well, it's an inexpensive piece of gear, and so it has a plastic cabinet, rather small knobs, and lacks a metal chassis.
But it's not junk either. Some thought obviously went into the design, which can be seen from things like the input/output connectors being
physically attached to the case with nuts and washers instead of just relying on the solder connections on the circuit board to hold them in
place. It is very lightweight and small. Lighter and smaller than I'm used to, personally, though that could be a plus for someone with limited
space in their studio for gear or who wanted a compressor for recording voiceovers and needed it to be portable because they don't have a
dedicated space for use as a production studio.
How hard was it to set up?
Not difficult at all. The Minicom Com800 uses standard 1/4 inch phone jacks for inputs and outputs.
A couple of one foot "gadget cords" from my patch cord collection, and I had it wired in between my mixer and transmitter in probably less than a
minute. Within another minute, I had found some presets that sounded reasonably good and was playing with getting the levels zeroed in.
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