I think it has more to do with the sheer range of devices they want to support — without the input control, you would have to have a Eurorack signal turned basically all the way down and a guitar signal turned all the way up. As @benway pointed out, this lets you get everything levelled off so that the main volume knobs all behave the same.
I was initially hopeful that there would be some characterful overdrive, but I haven’t seen any mention of it yet. I’m curious how the master filter reacts to a hot signal!
With intellijel I don’t doubt that it’s going to deliver on sonics, but looking forward to hearing more.
More hyped for this than any other piece of gear for a long, long time. Had been considering a Big Six or a Playdifferently Model 1 / 1.4 for a long time but hard to justify in terms of price and size to varying degrees. And probably too much for what I need.
But this seems perfect for dubs and giving a new lease of life to stuff like my MPC and S2400, bring pedals in a lot more as well. I feel like it’s really going to tie the room together. Expected it’d be about twice the price when I saw it first and even at that I’d still be interested, but for where it’s pitched I’m definitely gonna grab one.
Bébés are mostly sold out by now. I dont see this as a Bébé replacement, this concentrates more on fx sends and whatnot instead of distortion flavours and compression. But I am very happy we are getting more choices in this form factor.
Interesting! The cre8audio assembler is a cheaper alternative with 3 AUX sends (although not on every channel), but has no HiZ inputs and no filter. You could consider the filter send here as sort of a 3rd aux…
Looks like you can use the headphones out as a sort of fixed prefader (100% wet) extra send? Mute switch routes the signal to the headphone with the toggle there at the muted position.
I wonder how it deals with mono signals? There is no dual mono switch per channel unfortunately… But is single mono hard panned? Or centered if you connect only one cable?
Yes, you can use the Mute switch to send audio directly to the headphone output for cueing or use it as a third send, albeit you have to return signal back to either a channel or one of the External Inputs, the latter don’t have a volume control though, so I assume they get mixed at unity level.
I’m aware… But they are both compact performance mixers, so are targeting a very similar dawless audience I guess.
Assembler has gain boost (we don’t know yet if the jellymix will saturate or overdrive?), more channels, pan, return volume, … 6 mono, 2 stereo channels, 3 mono sends, with 2 stereo returns. So it has some pros…
I like the HiZ input, filter routing and pre/post option on the jellymix. I would have liked some monochannels with pan tbh… For connecting separate channels of a drum machine and some synths (which is their intended use case as stated in the video), 5 channels fill up pretty fast…
Most synths are mono, individual outs on drum machine are mono as well.
Bass drum, snare, stereo out of the rest of the drum machine and 2 synths, that’s it… I would need a submixer pretty fast.
So two very interesting small mixers, both with some very interesting features! One with more channels, the other one with more features. None of both is the perfect mixer for my current setup, but they are both a lot closer than the options we had before…
For me it’s the size and control layout of the Jellymix that’s so appealing. I can’t imagine trying to perform on something like the Assembler in the same way, although I could definitely see it landing in my rack at some point.
The way I see it, if four channels were enough for Lee Perry, then it should be enough for me - expect in most configurations to use the fifth one for effect return with feedback. I have been doing this in the box with a midi controller, but anything involving feedback is one area where I feel like analogue is the way. With a bit of thought and preparation it should be possible to get things set up to do passes of submixes/stems or full tracks. Wouldn’t be expecting to use it as a studio hub - I’ve already got a patch bay and sound card for that - but more so hooking it up to multiple stereo outs of Push/MPC/S2400/Elektrons/Modular/DAW and recording passes as takes. The spot I’m hoping it hits is more mixer as an instrument than a utility.
looks fantastic! I love Intellijel products. But I already have good eurorack mixers in my cases so probably would pass until I sell off some external mixers that I no longer use.
If you bury the jellymix in your garden and blow some holy smoke on it, it should sound pretty dope!
From what I can see in vids, both look similar in size, no? Reviews on the Assembler were very positive on the performance aspect. That’s exactly what I am looking for in a mixer as well. Had an onyx 16 channel mixer with 3 aux sends which was brilliant for that, but it’s way too big for my current setup…
I’ld rather use single instrument tracks on a performance mixer instead of full stereo mixes per channel. Seems more like what you use a summing mixer for. But to each his own of course…
I’ll certainly wait on more details on the jellymix before deciding on the assembler. Both look really promising!
Performance aspect is the thing. Looks to me like the Assembler is too cramped for what I want - fine for a rack for sure. Jellymix is uncluttered, just the right amount of controls - one knob eq per channel, pre/post sends, output filter, basically perfect for what I’m thinking of.
I’d also considered a rotary DJ mixer for this but you’d need to pay at least twice as much for even a 2 channel with similar spec. For me, I feel like the Assembler is really doing a quite different thing - I do need a eurorack mixer and this seems like a great option. But not really in the same conversation as the Jellymix for me - in a classic gear forum move I might well end up getting both.
The knobs are pretty small to consider this a DJ rotary mixer (which I don’t). It does seem like a cool table top mixer with interesting features. I feel like I would miss a more traditional EQ, but I may just have to try this one out at some point.
LOVE the form factor and UI of this. Between the Frap Tools Magnolia, the Love FM synth, the Phase8 and this, I’m really digging the clean, light, minimalist vibe that seemed to be happening at SB this year. Coolest mixer I’ve seen in a long time and the price is surprisingly on point. Hats off, Intellijel.
Neither do I, in case that wasn’t clear. The point is that I’d been looking for a long time but there was nothing really doing this exact thing, so I’d been checking options that aren’t a good fit for various reasons - either rotaries or stuff like the Model 1 and Big Six, or straight up Mackie/A&H/Tascam.
Specifically, the channels remind me of the Mastersounds Radius but with tilt rather than hpf and obviously sends etc. I enjoy playing on that one a lot, I thought I’d miss traditional channel eqs far more than I did in reality. Looks like the GM has a similar general approach but designed specifically for this context. Hard to tell until full specs being released, but in terms of knob size, these don’t seem much smaller than something like a Urei, lot of rotaries don’t have particularly big volume knobs. But also seems like there’s plenty of room to replace with bigger caps if that’s an issue.
