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RE: Mixer Board Stood On Its Head
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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
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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