first mixer you ever bought.

[waxxy]

what was the first mixer you ever bought?mine was a crappy 6 channel realistic mixer i bought it when i was about 15 for 10 pounds from a second hand shop and i had a yamaha ps keyboard with 4 track sequencer,jen sx1000 synth,casio sk1 sampler,old philips mic,drum machine (which was by an obscure manufacturer that i cant remember..all i bought it for was the bettey davis eyes hand clap which was on it...and all this was plugged into a philips multi track tape.

i used to use it every day and really loved it and thinking back id wished id kept the jen sx1000 now

[Dave Boulden]

I actually built my first mixer.. based upon the Maplin 4 channel line mixer kits... extended it to give me 8 channels with level and pan... very basic.

After that I finally bought a nasty 16:2 dinosaur... can't remember the brand though. Best "junk yard" mixer I had was a RAM Micro 10... I hacked 2 of them together (DIY cascading!) and made it a 20:4:8:2 mixer:



Edit: I now seem to recall the unknown mixer was in fact an "M&M" 16:2 mixer.

[kilo8017]

mine was one of those yamaha mg series analogue mixers. good quality faders, preamps sounds nice and the built quality is like tank. i miss that mixer

[DjRo]

Mine was a Mackie 1604 VLz Pro.... Lovely strong live mixer was also good in the studio


DjRo

[dvdan]

soundcraft spirit 16/8/2... muddy pre's but sweet eq. still use it as a routing mixer to this day!

[saxman]

Tascam Porta 03 MKII four track Ministudio cassette recorder.

Noisy inputs. Crosstalk between the tracks. I had some fun with it but there's only so much you can do with a device like that even if it is working perfectly.

[gzweb]

Boss BX600 - early 90's, simple colorful little mixer, was good enough to learn the basics on.

Console Analogique Boss BX-600

[terminal3]

Probably a Radio Shack four channel line mixer. I think I bought it before I even knew the difference between mic & line level, and thought it would also function as a preamp. As it probably cost about fourteen Canadian dollars, it wasn't the greatest loss when I just couldn't get it to work right.

Since then I've been mixer-free, as I mix mainly ITB, I do use a control surface though (Command|8) - although I've had my eye on a Soundcraft M8 or a Mackie 1220 strictly for doing cue mixes for some vocalists that I work with... some are incredibly sensitive to ITB latency, even when it's minimal, so I figure a mixer would be of benefit there. I'm sure waxxy would agree!

[JAYDMF]

Behringer mx9000.

[Malius]

First one I had really was a crappy behringer 4 channel mixer I 'robbed' off my brother.

Then I went out and bought a Soundcraft EX8 (I think that's the model number) for live sound, really nice desk, not had a single problem with it in about 3 years.

[waxxy]

the radio shack mixer is the same as my realstic mixer lol..in the uk most radio shack stuff was branded as radio shack because we didnt have radio shack stores we had tandys instead which were basically the same company ..

jesus how the hell did we live with those crappy things for so long..lol and to think it wasnt really that long ago we used them lol

this is basically what i had ..lol im so shamed

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[JAYDMF]

HAHAHA i know someone who still uses one of those

[terminal3]

Originally Posted by waxxy

the radio shack mixer is the same as my realstic mixer lol..in the uk most radio shack stuff was branded as radio shack because we didnt have radio shack stores we had tandys instead which were basically the same company ..

jesus how the hell did we live with those crappy things for so long..lol and to think it wasnt really that long ago we used them lol

this is basically what i had ..lol im so shamed

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Hey, there's a dude out there who actually made a VST model of the Realistic Reverb unit, so if you crave that crappy low-tech lo-fi sound in your mixes, it's all yours.

Audio Damage :: Ratshack Reverb v2.0

Best quote from the sales pitch:

Ratshack Reverb v2.0 features a completely re-written delay engine, which more accurately recreates the suck of the original. Never before has a vintage effect of such low quality been as painstakingly modeled as Ratshack Reverb v2.0.

This isn't a joke, either!

[Meander]

Quote:
Ratshack Reverb v2.0 features a completely re-written delay engine, which more accurately recreates the suck of the original. Never before has a vintage effect of such low quality been as painstakingly modeled as Ratshack Reverb v2.0.

That is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while!

[Monarch]

Originally Posted by waxxy

what was the first mixer you ever bought?

He He...

A tiny little...BehringerUB502

I was surprised how small it was. Very light as well. Almost too light in a (might not last very long kind of way)

Anyway it served me very well but I gave it away in the end to a friend in need.