Braven FUSE Portable Bluetooth Mixing Console

I'm so insanely happy with this. The place I work does not let me have music streaming from my computer but I need the audio from the computer. I use this to play audio from my phone along with audio from the computer to my bluetooth headphones. It's a real life changer. I can't live without it.

I thought this was the perfect answer to my problem: leave my Echo Dot always connected to a speaker while also allowing a 2nd device to pair as needed, mix both those signals so that music from my phone could play while the Dot is still available to respond audibly, then output that mixed signal to both a speaker that stays plugged into power near the Dot (always on) & a 2nd one that can move around the house with me. On paper, it's ideal. In practice, I'll probably end up returning it. As far as I can tell, there's no way to connect a non-Braven speaker to the FUSE (despite some Q&A above to the contrary). It may sort of be sometimes possible, but not reliably: my cheap HDMX speaker will sometimes connect (though drop out randomly), but I've never been able to get my Anker Soundcore 2 to pair. This means you're probably stuck with using Braven speakers, which is a bad idea because Braven seems to have completely scrubbed their website of info on the FUSE. Even the "tutorials" type links in the manual that came in the box no longer work. If Braven is dumping it, then investing in more Braven speakers to support it seems like it'll just get you stuck in a dying ecosystem. Also, some early reviews of the FUSE mention a companion app that helps pair to non-Braven speakers. This app either no longer exists or never did, because it's impossible to find. UPDATE: Braven's support is non-existent for this product. I've sent 3 inquiries in the last 2 weeks asking whether it supports non-Braven speakers, if the companion app actually exists, and if they support this product. Other than automated "we got your request & we'll get back to you soon" messages, I've received no response at all. At one point I was debating whether to break down & just buy Braven speakers for this after all, but their complete lack of response has convinced me to return this item & not purchase anything from them again.

I can't comment on it's ability as a mixer. I bought this simply for it's eq feature, low, mid, high adjustment. I could never get my headphones to sound quite right, but with the ability to tweak these 3 frequency ranges, it makes a world of difference. There is slight lag through bluetooth, but hard wired, it's fantastic.

One of the most amazing devices I've ever had the pleasure of using. I Love it!!!!

Good product.

Has pretty good sound quality. Must be using AD to DA conversion, which is fine. Sounds clearer than a lot of analog mixers that cost more. The crossfader on the first one I got was defective. CH1 was being panned in addition to being attenuated. The second one I got did not have this problem, but a main summation/mixing crossfader is essentially useless on such a device. It has a slight 1 or 2dB dip in the middle, probably not a full 3dB and could therefore be used for transitions, but there’s not much point. I’d really like to remove the crossfader entirely from my unit and was considering just doing it on the first one instead of returning it. There’s no way to know how it’s wired or soldered in there until you open it up, though. The digital headphone attenuation is a defective implementation, though, as it cannot reduce the volume very much and starts just rolling off the highs. The company knows about this as I discussed this on the phone with them. For loud venues, it’s not going to be a problem. At home, you may want to use an in-line volume control or outboard headphone amp. The EQ button is inverted in function, so they appear to have changed the manual to say it's an EQ deactivation now. EQ on actually shows more accurate passing of test waveforms than off, so there's not a whole bunch of benefit to deactivating it unless you can't find the knob centers on the tone controls. It might be a teeny tiny bit more refined with EQ bypassed, but it’s subtle and a triangle wave looks more accurate with it on, anyway. The tone control stem knobs are actually properly centered, but the plastic knobs’ internal piece is not and is randomly offset. The outer part appears to have been separate from the inner part during knob assembly, so it's kind of funny that when they're joining the knob parts they're screwing it up. Your ability to know if the tone controls are centered therefore must be done by feel when it clicks into those detents. The curve on the EQs is completely fouled up and ramps up almost to max at the first 1/3 of rotation from 12 o'clock, making it very touchy, like you only have 20 degrees of rotation in either direction. The EQs should have been summed crossovers, otherwise known as isolators, and should have been pre headphone cueing. They didn’t need detents, and being heard in the headphones you’d be able to use them as your trim/gain stages, but in three bands. The crossfader should be instead fading between the CH1 and CH2 in the headphones for cueing purposes. The button left of it should be SPLIT headphone mode with CH1 in left ear and CH2 in right ear, and the right button should replace the channel cueing with the MASTER output. The upfaders, while useable, are small, clunky, and do almost nothing until at their halfway point. So to begin a transition you basically move an upfader to the middle first. The upfaders should have been just potentiometers/knobs, a.k.a. rotary-style. All the knobs need to be standard rubber & plastic ones we all know and love and not these goofy silver two-piece things. Use what works. You know the ones I’m talking about with the physical nubbins that stick out that you can feel and the white or red line on the top. The whole thing could be a couple inches wider, for that matter, and even a little taller. The innards on it seem fully capable of being used as a good quality DJ mixer, but it's been designed by their ODM stupidly. There's very little chance this was designed by an English-speaking person with actual DJing experience. An English-speaking DJ probably didn’t even beta test the prototypes. Either Braven told a Chinese company what they wanted and the Chinese company designed, built, and tested it or this was something the Braven people saw at a tradeshow, and, regardless, I suspect Braven only came up with the logo, wrote the manual, and did the marketing.

I had such high hopes for this little piece of tech...but I digress. I've just opened the package...read the instructions...charged it to spec...attempted to fire it up...and it's dead...D.O.A. I'm so mad that I don't even want to give it a star, lol. I did some further research and found that the problem may be attributed a battery issue. I'm preparing to ship it back.

Works very well, and is very versatile. Nothing else like it.

Habe den Braven Fuse seit einigen Tagen im Test, leider musste ich direkt beim Auspacken feststellen das dieses Gerät irgendwie schon mal geöffnet würde ( Klebereste und kleine Macke am Gerät ) obwohl die Verpackung 1A aussah. Nun zu den Funktionen ... dieser kleine Mixer ist echt genial !!! Man findet im Moment nichts vergleichbares. Habe mit div. Eingangs und Ausgangsgeräten ( IPhone, IPad, Samsung S6, Amazon Fire Tablet, ION Bluetooth Lautsprecher, Philips Bluetooth Lautsprecher, AKG Y50 BT Bluetooth Kopfhörer usw. ) per Bluetooth und kabelgebunden getestet und es hat ALLES auf Anhieb funktioniert. Nun zu meinem PROBLEM !!! Leider gab es immer wieder Aussetzer im Ton ... Auch wenn alle Gerät sehr nah beieinander liegen. Würde sofort 5 Sterne vergeben wenn das Ersatzgerät von AMAZON diese Aussetzer nicht hat. ( Warte auf das Ersatzgerät und werde anschließend berichten ... ) Fazit: Super Idee um mal eben ohne großen Aufwand eine kleine Party am Strand oder im Garten zu starten aber leider mit kleiner Macke !!!

Great product, perfect for my use. I have two BT devices connected to it as input and one BT headset as output, can also connect BT speaker as output. Shipped and received super quickly also.

Table de mixage fonctionnant à merveille avec les tablettes et mobile en Bluetooth. Le paramétrage est relativement facile avec le Bluetooth mais avec les fils c'est parfait. Le plus du produit est qu'on peut appairer 2 enceintes Bluetooth simultanément et le son sort parfaitement sur les 2 enceintes. Pratique quand la pièce est un peu grande et qu'une seule enceinte sera un peu juste. En clair produit parfait pour faire des mixes sympa pour un peu plus de100€. En ce qui concerne la livraison, le colis est arrivé le jour promis dans le relais et l'emballage était parfait comme d'habitude chez Amazon. Je recommande.

Produkt ist ein Favorit auf den Sommergagets, Akku hält locker 8 Stunden durch, Fader und Potentiometer Regler weißen eine gute Qualität auf!; praktisch finde ich auch die Möglichkeit per 3,5 mm Klinke Audioquellen anschließen zu können bzw. auch einmal 3,5mm Klinke Output. Leider habe ich den Artikel erst nach dreimaligen Retourenverfahren einwandfrei und funktionsfähig erhalten, ein Megaaufwand aber ich wollte unbedingt dieses Stylische Mischpult;-)))

Très bon produit, conforme à la description. Simple d'utilisation et très pratique, permet de passer des bonnes soirées sans se prendre la tête. Bluetooth très réactif.