Been using mine during my lunch breaks at work. Running a Tr-8 through it for hilariously groovy results .
One of those bits of kit that just makes me smile
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Don’t suppose anyone has some examples of running 909 drums through the Bestie?
Edit - I also have a general question about audio engineering. When you take a mono output and use a splitter cable (mono > 2x mono) is the output halved at each output?
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is there any information anywhere about the specs on this? like maximum +dbu or something? I want an idea of what the headroom is like, i’m assuming it’s all unbalanced as well?
The bastl website tends to be detailed on their product pages and includes manuals.
Here’s what’s in the manual, but it doesn’t say if it’s balanced. I think it’s unbalanced, but don’t quote me:)
If you want to send a short loop of some audio, I don’t mind running it through the Bestie at a few different settings and recording
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The first video has a 909 at 3.05
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Any more reports and/or demos of people using this? How do you like it? Is it more of a novelty?
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It’s great. Clean as you like until about 12 o clock and everything past that is nicely driven. The feedback is extreme but that’s in keeping with the marketing claims. Does what it says on the tin. I give it a 9 out of 10. It’d be nice if it had a master volume but of course it would also be more expensive so…
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I think “does what it says on the tin” is a great way to put it.
It’s just a nice, super compact little stereo mixer that’s perfect for tightly-spaced dawless setups. And can run on batteries.
I have my JU-06A, BS2, and TR-6S all running into it. And then I run the summed output into the SP-404mk2.
I keep the knobs at about 2:00 for each of them and it gives a nice sounding saturation. I don’t mess with the crazy feedback it can do too much at all, so I can’t really speak to that part.
No master volume, but I run it out of the headphone out so I can use that knob as a ‘master volume’
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It’s awesome! Form factor can’t be beat, and it sounds clean to total destruction. Highly recommend!
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I love mine. The headphone out volume knob is a good trick too.
How’s the build quality?
like a tank
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Hi friends!
I’m having trouble getting a stereo signal through headphones on most of the inputs (all stereo).
Does anyone have any tips or guidance? Thanks fellow ‘nauts!
Hmmm. Is the source instrument mono by chance? If so, and you are plugging it into the stereo input on the Bestie, I think you’d only hear it out of one ear
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I have 3 instruments going into the Bestie:
Alpha Base (running sound from the Alpha Base headphone output)
Digitone (same, running out of headphone output)
Roland E-4 (running out of mix-out output)
Is it possible to have all 3 running in stereo out of Bestie?
Yep, should be.
You can use inputs 2, 3, 4 as stereo inputs. 1 and 5 then remain available either as stereo inputs or dual-mono.
If you want to keep 3 as the feedback maker, then use 1 or 5 as a stereo input.
Unless I’m misunderstanding something. I 
my Bestie.
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Yeah shouldn’t be a problem to run three stereo inputs.
What are you experiencing? Sound coming out of only one side of your headphone out?
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I’m guessing there’s something wrong—if I “almost” get the jack plugged in I get stereo, otherwise it switches to left output only…
Any tips?
Well first thing to do I think is always swap out all the cables and try different ones. Or at least, systematically try one cable/one instrument at a time and try to identify the culprit
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