Re: Rackmount 1-space stereo line mixers?

["Luigi Meloni" <luigimeloni74@LIBERO.it>]

Hi Mike. I don't know the specifics, but there is a new 1-space stereo line
mixer on the Behringer catalogue, and it should cost about 150$... I've 
seen
only a pair of photos of it, but you might try to give a look on the
www.behringer.com homepage, there should be a direct link there... It is 
the
eurorack pro rx1602 ... I don't know if it has fx loops, though...


Luigi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Barrs" <mbarrs@nightviewer.com>
To: "Loopers Delight" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 6:16 AM
Subject: Rackmount 1-space stereo line mixers?


> Right now I'm using my Repeater as an inline, downstream effect after my
> Roland VG-88 guitar processor. For various reasons (including the latency
> issue which has been mentioned here), I'd like to try moving the Repeater
> off into a side-chain (parallel) FX signal, instead of running it inline.
>
> The easy and cheap solution would be a compact horizontal-format mixer
with
> two AUX sends per channel (Behringer, Mackie, etc.) But I'm trying to 
>keep
> my rig as compact as possible, and I would prefer doing this with a
1-space
> rackmount stereo line mixer.
>
> One complication here is that I would like a headphone output in the
mixer,
> since I've been using the Repeater's headphone jack to monitor practice
> sessions. If I move it off to a parallel FX loop and run it in dry mute
> mode, I won't hear the VG-88 live sound in the headphones.
>
> I haven't found many candidates so far. Most of the 1u rackmount line
mixers
> don't even have FX sends, and the few that do are usually mono sends and
> returns. And very few rackmount line mixers include a headphone jack. 
>Here
> are the options I've found so far in stereo 1u rack line mixers that 
>might
> work:
>
> Rane SM82 -- full stereo FX loop, but no headphone jack (I'd have to add 
>a
> headphone amp).
>
> Ashly LX308B -- no FX loop, but it has a headphone jack.
>
> Whirlwind Mix 6 -- no FX loop, but it has a headphone jack.
>
> I could use a pair of line splitters ahead of the Ashley or Whirlwind
mixers
> to get around the FX loop problem... split the VG-88 stereo signal, send
one
> stereo pair to the mixer, the other stereo pair to the Repeater, and 
>bring
> the Repeater's output back into the mixer.
>
> Is there anything else that might work? All these 1u rackmount stereo
mixers
> are pretty expensive ($400-$600) compared to the compact Behringer/Mackie
> horizontal format mixers that would do the same job. I thought I'd ask
here
> first if there were other options I haven't found.
>
> Thanks!
>
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>  Mike Barrs
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