Paul White zegt in z'n SOS review:
"Setting up the C*Control proved to be extremely simple, and the illuminated buttons make it clear what mode the switches are in, although it did take me a while to work out why the talkback to two-track didn't seem to work at first. Everything worked as proclaimed on the tin and, though I found the talkback mic a little noisy, it didn't affect intelligibility and didn't get onto the recordings (other than when slating the two-track feed), so it's not a problem. The signal path through the C*Control was very clean and having the ability to mix inputs is a true luxury. I found it useful to patch the input from my audio interface into the stereo mix input and then to bring the output from my keyboard line submixer into the next input, as this allows me to isolate either source and check for quality problems. The mixed output can then be recorded to a two-track machine or, alternatively, one of the two-track outputs could be fed back into the computer's audio interface to allow the MIDI parts to be recorded as audio. As you can mute the mix input without muting the feed from the line mixer, this is extremely easy.
The C*Com 16's switchable +4dBu/-10dBV balanced jacks are accompanied by a sidechain insert point.
A product like the C*Control is long overdue and I hope it won't be too long before Samson build something similar for surround monitoring, ideally for no more than twice the price. The C*Control covers all the obvious 'master section' functions including talkback, and in making the four stereo inputs usable at the same time it solves one of my own problems, which is how to feed an additional small mixer into the monitoring system along with the computer's stereo output so that I can plug in instruments when rehearsing. Combined with the C*Que 8 headphone amplifier, which would stack above or below it, the C*Control neatly meets the entire monitoring needs of a typical computer-based studio. In my view this is a seriously useful piece of kit that anyone with a workstation or music computer system should not overlook, and for coming up with such a practical niche product Samson deserve to sell C*Controls by the container-load. I've a feeling this one is not going to go back! "
