Best mixer?

CAPO · Post by **CAPO** » Sat Apr 20, 2002 1:31 pm

Hey Sub, have you looked at the Mackie 1604vlz mixer... I dont know what you ment by low cost or that $99 thing but this is a good one to interface an A16 with, but it is a bit much still... $999 at GC but they got realy nice mic preamps! anyhow, thought I would mention it

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Sat Apr 20, 2002 3:16 pm

No, I don't need any inputs on the mixer, that's way too much mixer, I'm thinking 2xA16 Ultras for 32 channels in/out (effects sends returns, synths, etc). So something under $100 would be preferable. I'm thinking maybe one of those small Spirit mixers.

w_ellis · Post by **w_ellis** » Sat May 11, 2002 10:19 am

Hi Subhuman,

Remembered you were asking about cheap mixers when I was looking in the latest Sound on Sound. Digital Village are advertising quite a few Behringer mixers which might do the job. I imagine they'll probably be quite easy to get hold of over there anyway.

Hope this helps,
Will

P.S. If you're interested look at:
http://www.behringer.com/02_products/in ... 1&lang=eng
The Eurorack range are pretty cheap.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: w_ellis on 2002-05-11 11:23 ]</font>

borg · Post by **borg** » Sat May 11, 2002 3:58 pm

http://www.etekengineering.com/homeeng.html

their analog mixer AD 1823 go for 170€ here. it sure looks cool, but i have my doubts about the functionality when looking at it.

electrofux · Post by **electrofux** » Sat May 11, 2002 8:30 pm

The problem with every Pulsar Mixer is their poor Midi implementation. Ever tried to control as much knobs and buttons as possible...
You will soon end up having no midi controllers left to assign.
Thats why i use the Cubase Mixer for everything (even if i got a little bit of latency). I can control everything with a decent controller (and the generic remote module in VST) and can even use VST Plugs on my Pulsar Synths.
I don't know why CW still sticks to this
old fashioned Midi implementation for their Mixers even though people complained about this since Version 1.0

Cheers
electrofux

gedas · Post by **gedas** » Sun May 12, 2002 3:34 am

I just wonder why can't they implement multiple midi channel response for the STM 2448? That would do the job for me.

PabloFasan · Post by **PabloFasan** » Sun May 12, 2002 6:51 pm

Hello to everybody:

I have a simple question for those that are replacing your hardware consoles for CW's virtual consoles:

How do you replace the "preamps" , not only for mics or guitars otherwise for the high level signals of the hardware synths.

As my experience shows (discarding that's impossible to amplify a studio mic without a preamp and phantom power) that synths sound much better passed through a preamp instead of conecting them directly to a line input.

The preamp gives the sound "colour" and "personality" that in general the line sound don't have.