I think I need a mixer. I have a Bastl dude but am fast thinking I need something more capable.
I have a Digitakt, Octatrack, 0-Coast, Mac acting as my piano, a reel to reel tape deck, and one set of speakers. I’ll be adding a Machinedrum, Digitone or similar, and that Polyseq Tracker.
I don’t have a huge amount of space. I want it to cope with live use as well as general mixing when at home. It doesn’t need effects and stuff, just want a solid mixer. In my dream world it would be the same size as an Elektron box but… yeah.
Best mixer under $500 is the Radial KeyLargo in terms of sound quality. With some daisychaining (i.e. O-Coast into Digitakt into mixer) you could make it work. Plus you could use the stereo send to feed the OT.
Behringer xr18 under the table with faderfox mx12 controlling it
Exactly the size of an Elektron box. But limited midi implementation. If you only need volume, pan and mutes on hand, It’s perfect. And quite a capable and good mixer too. Surprised me…
to be safe and ready in all directions of workflow directions, i’d recomend this one…
…keep in mind the ot should always be feeded with something to mangle at any time…
so hardwire it with some aux output…
and spend all it’s outputs dedicated inputs on the console…
the no coast is a good choice to be hardwired to another input of the ot and needs no dedicated input on the console…
while ur mac defenitly needs a dedicared one…
this mixer can be ur overall inferface and ur monitor controler…
Not sure where you’re based. In the UK it’s really easy to pick up lightly used high quality Allen & Heath or Midas analogue mixers very cheaply as I guess a lot of small to medium venues go to digital or ITB mixing. A lot of these mixers will be 10-16 channels (19” rack size). You may decide they’re too big (or feature overkill) but they might be worth a look.
Something like a A&H MixWizard 14:4:2.
Up to 6 effects sends
4 stereo inputs (over two channels)
Built like a £1k mixer with quality EQs
Boss made some smaller stereo mixers bx600 and stuff that go for pretty cheap not sure how many outputs they have or of the actual quality, some of the earlier boss mixers are sort of collectable and people use the to saturate and drive signals a bit like the dude mixer but bigger and stereo. There are also some smaller DJ mixers around that are pretty nice, although you will be more limited for inputs and more often than not they only have stereo ins. DJ mixers usually have a lot of outputs though which is handy, often enough that you can have 1 for monitors 1 for recording 1 for sampling and 1 for headphones… but you have to be willing to juggle your setups a bit once you have more gear.
+1. Not small, but not too big either. Sounds great, solid, and incredibly flexible routing options. Also, the 1204 model has a better stereo line:mono mic input ratio than most other mixers.
Seems like the evolution of their portastudio tapedecks which I’ve owned a few and still use a 424. Plan on incorporating it with the model 16 for some tape saturation and I really enjoy the sound of the DBX limiters.
But yea can stream any input to a daw and back. And can record straight to an sd card: pretty nice on the eyes too
Looks nice. I like the faders and the pre/post on both AUX outs. Not enough stereo inputs for me though, and I’d miss my stereo aux returns and ALT 3+4 output.
