Its a bit of a wedge shape, may have a bit of heft…
Heft is one thing you don’t want for something portable. Well see. Even if, I’m gonna buy it.
Weight (body only) 526 g - so pretty light!
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This looks awesome, but how is the force of a dozen cables not going to pull this thing over?
Velcro and a pedal board maybe? Seems to be its natural home…
Realized this thing has everything I want out a zoom mixer… except the ability to overdub H6-style by choosing an unused stereo input to add a new track. Oh well, maybe one day.
Looks like it has some nice features in a small package.
I would’ve preferred I/O on rear leaving more space on the top for everything else.
I also wonder how much tension on the cables is needed for the L6 to flip over.
Hmmm might even be able to simulate some sidechain action, by modulating the level knobs quickly down and up with cc’s
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Yeah. Depends somewhat how the midi implementation is handled (how immediate the changes are, ofic there is a smoothing delay)
If it’s possible - I may have to stop waiting for a Roland compact mixer and just bite the bullet on this one haha
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This is the one feature I see missing, everything else seems great. I would sell my R4 in a moment if the L6 could handle overdubs. A thought occurs to me - could you bounce down a playback mix to a sound pad if you press record at start of playback? Could you then record new track(s) on top of that?
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I mean in my dreams this thing would have a screen and an arranger like the tape machine of the op-1(f).
A workaround would for sure be to bounce it to the phone and use that as the new source while recording (say with koala). But that doesn’t sound to comfortable.
Most synths have unbalanced outputs so that would not make a difference. As the first two channels, the aux sends and the main output are balanced, plus the separated usb power and usb data connections: I’m very hopeful!
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Yeah, maybe it’s cause I waited so long for some dream device that I don’t expect to get all features ever, but so many posts here and there read like "if it just had this one feature more (2 more channels, or balanced, or ins out on the back, or faders, or or or) then it would be perfect… And the theres like “can’t be that hard/expensive” and “so I have to search on” and I’m just confused, some of those people really do want a fully featured mix deck + workstation editing for < 300$ that fits in their pocket… 
(You’re not meant with that Scyphozoa. But as rtme mentioned, Most smaller synths are unbalanced. Just thinking… Microkorg, volcas, micro rite, and some others: all unbalanced. The only balanced I have is the model cycles. I guess higher end synths/romplers, elektron and Nord gear have balanced out. (Tbh not gear that’s that portable, meaning the size of the mixer doesn’t have that much of an impact, then the l-8 or l-12 is maybe an option… Or this one for the 1 piece of gear that is balanced 🤷)
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Obviously the everything on the frond design is to accommodate installing it in a eurorack case…this will be a big deal in eurorack land and they could sell a lot of them for that reason…it’s very cheap and highly specified for a eurorack module!
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You’ll be suprised: Even a Nord lead A1 or Stage 4 has unbalanced outputs only. It seems to be the defacto standard.
For line level I guess the signal is hot enough that usually noise is no problem with properly shielded cables. And if you’re on stage, you don’t run your cables from the instrument to the mixing booth but to a di box, so the need for balanced is limited
( I honestly mostly encounter it if badly shielded usb devices (pcs, …) are in the mix or cables are unshielded and pick up RFs, other then that not sure when I’ve had real noise in my chain. (Again, only short cable runs)
I think we can all agree with confidence that Zoom didn’t think for a second about eurorack while designing this mixer.
Though I did add the L6 on Modulargrid in case people want to use it on their pedalboard.
Here’s a screenshot to visualize how big it is compared to other gear.
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Useful image, thanks for that
Haven’t yet figured out… Are the two Aux sends in mono or stereo? Very cool that they can be both pre and post fader