Behringer Powerplay P16-M Personal Mixer

The P16-M is a personal mixer built around Behringer's Ultranet protocol — 16 channels of digital audio arrive over a single Cat5 cable, and the musician on the other end controls their own mix without tying up monitor engineer time or radio. Each unit sits on a mic stand or desk wedged into the stage plot, and a daisy-chained Ultranet Thru port means you can run multiple units off a single feed. The left and right quarter-inch TRS outputs go straight to a stereo IEM transmitter or a set of wedges. At $199, it's the entry point for personal mixing that actually works inside a real touring or worship rig.

The Ultranet connection is the load-in story here. One Cat5 run per unit — no analog snake taps, no splitter math, no per-channel gain staging at the stage box. The catch is that you need a compatible Ultranet source: an X32, M32, or a dedicated P16-I interface. If your console is something else, you're adding a conversion device before this even enters the picture. Power draws under 12 watts and is supplied over Ultranet itself via the P16-D distributor or directly from compatible consoles, so in a clean Behringer/Midas ecosystem, there's no separate power cable at the musician's position — which genuinely matters when you're rolling cable in a hurry.

This belongs in a rig where the console is already X32 or M32 territory and you're solving the 'the bass player keeps asking for more of himself' problem without hiring another engineer. Worship rigs, theater pits, club touring bands where stage volume needs to come down — all good fits. It is not the right tool if your console doesn't speak Ultranet and you don't want to add a P16-I or similar interface, and it's not competitive with the more refined feel of dedicated personal mixing ecosystems like the Aviom A360 if player experience is the primary budget line. For the price and the ecosystem, though, nothing touches it.