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[techno_7]

Originally Posted by Juho L

"We professionals call it a mixer"*

*Derived from a Finnish TV history classic: Matti Kyll?nen was reporting a formula race and Keke Rosberg was a commentator. Matti: "And what's now?! There are smoke coming out of the jets on JJ's car!". Keke: "We professionals call those jets exhaust pipes"

Weird.

[jasedee]

Actually Juho.....there are a number of "Analogue summing units" for sale these days, offering a cure for digital mixes.

It's the latest "fad" out there for people mixing "in the box". Supposedly you can get better results by sending a bunch of stereo mixes from the computer out to one of these analogue summing devices, than if you were to mix entirely from the computer.

They tend to be of better quality than your average Mackie desk, but I think the differences would be negligible. If you can mix well, then an analogue summing device wont improve things that much, and if you cant mix well, then there is no saving your mixes.

[Tomer=Trance]

daw mixing is very common now days but people are still looking for that neve\ssl analog console sound.
just send everything on one side get pure honey on the other side.


just something i was wondering jase.
do analog summers have multiply outputs (seround..) ?

[jasedee]

Originally Posted by Tomer=Trance

daw mixing is very common now days but people are still looking for that neve\ssl analog console sound.

A summing device wont do this though.......you will need a Neve for that!

just something i was wondering jase.
do analog summers have multiply outputs (seround..) ?

I dont think so.....well, not the ones I have seen anyhoo.

[Timo]

Originally Posted by Tomer=Trance

daw mixing is very common now days but people are still looking for that neve\ssl analog console sound.
just send everything on one side get pure honey on the other side.


just something i was wondering jase.
do analog summers have multiply outputs (seround..) ?

Decent mixers have direct outs on all channels, and 8-bus mixers also have, er, 8 busses (each with direct outs), in addition to the stereo out.

[Juho L]

Hmm... Isn't it trivial to sepperate mixers and "analog summign devices" as the mixers are analog summing devices. I assume that this "analog summign device" doesn't have faders, but still it's a mixer.

[Seeyou]

Originally Posted by techno_7

Did you know?

MIDI is 1 's and 0's!

001110000101010000010001110000
0100001010101000001010101010101

That could be a midi signal!!!

Well... that could be a digital audio signal as well...

...a very short one though

[Seeyou]

Originally Posted by Juho L

Hmm... Isn't it trivial to sepperate mixers and "analog summign devices" as the mixers are analog summing devices. I assume that this "analog summign device" doesn't have faders, but still it's a mixer.

I prefer "mixer" rather than "analog summing devices". It's more relaxing for the fingers while typing

[techno_7]

Originally Posted by Seeyou

Well... that could be a digital audio signal as well...

...a very short one though

Cool! I didnt know that!

[jasedee]

Originally Posted by Juho L

Hmm... Isn't it trivial to sepperate mixers and "analog summign devices" as the mixers are analog summing devices. I assume that this "analog summign device" doesn't have faders, but still it's a mixer.

Stop picking nits Juho! When one says, "I just bought a mixer" it conjures up images of faders, EQ's, Aux sends/returns, Master outs etc....

When one says, "I just bought an anlogue summing device", what you would see is a 1 rack unit, plain box, with 8 ins and 2 outs on the rear.

Plus.....these analogue summing devices usually are of high quality, costing up to and above US$2000. Whereas a Mackie mixer with similar I/O costs peanuts.