midiman MultiMixer 10 for FREE! (with a catch)

[Cloudschatze]

Having upgraded mixers, I have a spare midiman MultiMixer 10. This 10-channel (5 stereo-pair) mixer is quite small, nicely built, and extremely quiet.

Please get in touch with me if you're interested, or if you have any questions. I'm not charging anything for it, but require that a donation of at least twenty dollars be made to some sort of charitable entity.

[Alistair]

Hey Eric,

I'm broke, but I just thought could explain to me what a mixer is and why people use them. I have a general idea but no 'ractical' idea, if you get my drift. Cheers.

- Alistair

[Cloudschatze]

The basic principle is that you're "mixing" x number of inputs into a pair of outputs. Professional studio mixers tend to add a plethora of additional features.

Perhaps sharing my commonly-used setup with the MultiMixer will give you an idea:

Channel 1 1/4" mono (panned to Left) - XV-5080 L
Channel 2 1/4" mono (panned to Right) - XV-5080 R
Channel 3 RCA mono (panned to Left) - JD-990 L
Channel 4 RCA mono (panned to Right) - JD-990 R
Channel 5 RCA mono (panned to Left) - LAPC-I L
Channel 6 RCA mono (panned to Right) - LAPC-I R
Channels 7/8 1/8" stereo - SC-55mkII L/R
Channels 9/10 1/8" stereo - MU-100 L/R

Master Outs L/R RCA - DS-50a monitors
Line Out 1/8" stereo - connected only when recording (see the "Composition suggestions" thread for examples...)
Headphone Out 1/8" stereo - not connected



Anyone currently swapping audio cables between devices needs a mixer.

Anyone currently swapping devices in and out of their mixer needs one with more channels.

[Ari]

Well... I might be interested. What kind of charitable entity are we talking about?

[Alistair]

So basically, digitally speaking it stops you needing the extreme example of 'one sound module, one digital sound card'.

Would that mean you could send all the music to the one mixer, and then to for example a sound card and record from there? I guess that's what you do to record, right?

Are there any disadvantages to doing it that way?

- Alistair

[Laust]

The disadvantage is that in the end, you still only end up with two recorded channels. If at some point after recording, you find you need to rerecord or edit a particular instrument for whatever reason (wrong volume or effects, etc.), you will have to redo the whole thing. True multitrack recording gets over this problem, but then it's a step up in price too.

For MIDI and hobbyist musicians, I don't think this is really a concern, but in a real studio, having to mix down to two channels immediately would be quite limiting.

[apeman]

Hey Eric, I PMed you but who knows whether PMs are operational yet??

Anyway, I'd be happy to take the mixer off you if you don't mind posting it to England. Any chance of a pic of the back of the device? And what sort of charities are your thing? Would you be OK with something conservation-related?

Thanks
Mike

[Cloudschatze]

True multitrack recording gets over this problem, but then it's a step up in price too.

Sometimes the steps aren't so high - Roland's VSR-880 digital multitrack recorder is a reasonably cheap addition. I recently bought a used one for $200, and a local music store has two used units for $125 each.

Hey Eric, I PMed you but who knows whether PMs are operational yet??

Mike, yours was the first PM I received, so you've got first claim. As far as charities are concerned, it's up to you.

Here's a German review of the mixer, with a photo of the back:

http://www.musicfarm.org/input/test/t-multimixer.html

[apeman]

Mike, yours was the first PM I received, so you've got first claim. As far as charities are concerned, it's up to you.

Here's a German review of the mixer, with a photo of the back:

http://www.musicfarm.org/input/test/t-multimixer.html

How weird that I never saw my PM in the outbox. Well I hope you didn't reply because apparently I have no new messages....
I'll get cracking on that donation and will let you know soonest, that OK by you?

Thanks!
Mixer-less Mike

[Ari]

Oh, bummer, I wasn't fast enough...  No biggie.