RE: Mixer Board Stood On Its Head

["Krispen Hartung" <info@krispenhartung.com>]

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Wow, the 16X16 Switchblade for guitar is insanely expensive ($2300), but looks very powerful. I'm with you here...won't be buying that one in the near future.

 

Th AuxPander that Dave suggests is interesting too, though a bit bulky, and is marketed as a supplement to a normal mixer to expact aux. channel capability. 

 

You'd think someone could just make a basic two space unit with all manual controls...no MIDI or complex programming, just something like a aux/channel inverted Mackie board.

 

There is another possible way of approaching this problem. If I could split the signal of the AUX sends on my current Mackie 1202 mixer, all those split signals could go to the inputs of my effects processors. Then I could run the outputs of the effect processors to the input channels of the board. This is how most pro and industry strandard effects are routed anway (both in the studin and live)...back into a board channel for more control, EQ, accessibility, etc.  But I would need some sort of device that would split the AUX send and keep the levels up...almost like a powered one input multiple output mini mixer. The Behringer MX882-ULTRALINK-PRO 8-Channel Splitter/Mixer wold work here http://www.fullcompass.com/Products/pages/SKU--39245/. 

 

Kris

-----Original Message-----
From: David Coffin [mailto:dpcoffin@earthlink.net]
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 9:10 PM
To: info@krispenhartung.com
Cc: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Mixer Board Stood On Its Head

Being an FX guy myself, I've often looked for something similar...only thing I know of is the Switchblade stuff, which I believe can be configured that way....full-stereo FX busses are RARE!

http://www.soundsculpture.com/products/switchblade.htm

...these have always seemed too expensive, so I've not tried 'em; I think they recently introduced an 8-channel version that's less $$.
dc


On Jan 23, 2005, at 7:50 PM, Krispen Hartung wrote:

Okay, so maybe the subject heading isn't entirely reflective of what I'm about to suggest, but here's a concept. You know how most mixer boards have several channels (mono or stereo, XLR, or line) and between 1 to 4 mono or stereo AUX channels for inserting effects devices in parallel with the signal? Well, what would be cool is a sort of line mixer that has only one stereo channel input, 8 or so stereo AUX channels with their own level controls, and a stereo output.  That way, I could go from my primary signal processor into the stereo channel, insert all my other stereo effect processors in the AUX channels (reverb, chorus/delay, and other tone mangling effects), and then run the output of this inverted line mixer to my EDPs.  That way I could have total control of the levels of all my effects and they would be in parallel to my primary signal. 

Does such an animal exist? The the only thing close to this that I've owned was a Rocktron MIDI patchbay. The only difference is that it had no level control over each of the stereo loops…but it did have a stereo input, stereo output, and 8 stereo loops in parallel.

K-

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