


It’s only those different ins and outs that really separate them, so looking at the 16 should give us a good taste of the range.

According to PreSonus, all three Series III mixers “provide exactly the same mixing capabilities internally”. The PreSonus website also notes the older StudioLive RM元2AI, one I’ve previously tested, as still being still available and the 32.4.2AI is also still around and is a fully featured bigger, older brother. They look very similar in terms of controls and screens. There’s the 16 (on test here), the 24 (actually 25 mic ins) and the 32 (over twice the physical size and with 32 input channels). There are several models in the StudioLive mixer range, which is now at Series III. The latest PreSonus StudioLive Series III is a new instalment in a group of mixers/interfaces attempting to do all this. Today’s mixers are now much more fully featured affairs units that have to sit side-by-side with a computer-production setup, work well with it, or replace it.

And with a resurgence in music-production hardware, led by modular synths and keyboards, the hardware mixer is most definitely back in vogue.
