Minimal mixers

[billyhologram]

Dang, that’s a lot of great feedback! Figured it’d be best to spin off a new thread about it, so:

Prototyping Nearness, a minimal panning mixer module

[image] Hi. Here’s something I’ve been working on: a prototype for a panning mixer, as previously seen in Minimal mixers, and here realized as a 3HP Eurorack module. This is work in progress, but I thought it would be nice to keep a bit of a log of it. To recap, the idea is to have some number of input jacks (seven, here) mixed down to two output jacks, with each input representing a fixed pan position somewhere between the two extremes represented by the outputs. Plug a signal into the topmos…

[marcus_fischer]

This thing looks so nice!
Description in the link.

[Oootini]

Wouldn’t you just use your last VCA in the “voice” to control the level?

[Simeon]

a lot of us don’t use traditional vca’s, but yeah, there are a lot of ways of controlling the volume without cluttering the module.

[Oootini]

Interesting. How do you control dynamic then?

[Simeon]

20 characters full of filters.

[Oootini]

What about volume? Do you handle all that manually?

[laborcamp]

Wow. Incredible esthetic, and given that it is Telefunken, it likely sounds amazing too!

[Simeon]

Yup, mixers and attenuators. But I’m a bit of a weirdo.

[emenel]

I use combinations of things, including a final mixer to manage all the voices.

I don’t use a lot of traditional signal paths, and lots of my vcas don’t have attenuators so even using them with an envelope doesn’t really give me final level control.

I do agree that we don’t need to clutter up this consuls concept, there are lots of ways to control level at different points.

[vehka]

[Alistair]

Just got this guy for around £20 looks insanely cool, can’t find any info on it. need a psu can anyone help me! Be great to get this working, if it sounds rubbish would also be interested in rebuilding

[marcus_fischer]

any info on this? a quick google search didn’t turn up much

[marcus_fischer]

ah, nevermind. found it!

http://en.uraltone.com/kits/studiolaiterakennussarjat/uraltone-tube-sounding-micro-mixer-rakennussarja.html

[Zedkah]

Like it… and the wood chip wall behind.

[Alistair]

Haha some of us have to live in rented flats and arn’t aloud to decorate
Goes well with the vintage mixer though,
Love to no if anybody knows a power supply that works with this guy

[vehka]

My bandmate built one and brought it to our practice session. It’s really neat, I like the inserts and the channel link feature. A button or a switch to assign the channel to only one of the outs would be great though.

[ermina]

Some informations are left unspecified on their website, maybe you know the answers:
are the inputs stereo or mono ? and what about those outs A and B ? is it like A = left channel and B = right channel so one can either have a stereo master or use hard pans to get two independent outs ?

[vehka]

Yeah everything’s mono. But the build instructions might have some alternatives for the master outs, perhaps that’s why they are labelled a and b instead of l and r, my mate said he would check the specs and get back to me.

[marcus_fischer]

I kind of with there was a send/return instead of an insert. An insert seems a little pointless since it’s all just 3.5mm jacks anyway. The only time I ever use inserts is on XLR channels on my larger mixer to go out to studio rack effects.