Minimal mixers

[sonoCircuit]

Nice to see this one posted! A friend of mine designed this. Lovely mixer.

[pulsewidth]

Ordered one as soon as I saw the tweet from Thonk. Excited to get this in to my rack!

[shellfritsch]

congrats, tom! this looks very useful and well thought out

looking forward to building one.

[ether]

The x-desk is flexible, elegant, super clean and has tons of headroom, but beware that it has no mic pres or eq on board.

The SSL SiX has (some) though.

[Oneven]

Yeah the lack of pre’s or eq is fine! I plan on getting a 500 rack so having the option to choose my own pres is a huge plus.

The SiX looks nice, but made in china and I’m not sure if it will hold up over time.

[emenel]

but made in china and I’m not sure if it will hold up over time.

We need to get over this stigma. China has a lot of really high end manufacturing for global and local companies. And people can make shit quality products in any country.

[Oneven]

Sure, but it is an awful lot of SSL for a very low price which means they have cut a ton of costs somewhere. Thus my remark.

[emenel]

Yep, I agree. But it’s not about “made in china”, it’s about what they chose to cut… we can have that discussion without the generalization about a huge part of the world.

I’m also curious about some real hands-on experience with the Six… there’s a chance that they have figured out how to give it their sound and build at a lower price.

It’s also not that cheap, and not that full featured — two pres, really stripped down EQ and comp in only a few places…

[Oneven]

Yep, I agree. But it’s not about “made in china”, it’s about what they chose to cut… we can have that discussion without the generalization about a huge part of the world.

Sorry to have rubbed you the wrong way. Let’s get back on topic.

It’s also not that cheap, and not that full featured — two pres, really stripped down EQ and comp in only a few places…

One SSL Alpha Channel made in the UK is about the same price, so it is relatively cheap compared to their other products.

[dudadius]

I had one of those back in the day! So weird…

[glia]

love the panel

so clear

[emenel]

One SSL Alpha Channel made in the UK is about the same price, so it is relatively cheap compared to their other products.

Not really an apples-to-apples comparison. The Alpha Channel has more EQ, digital conversion, X-Logic link, and is a top-line rack channel which I’m sure has better overall components.

I’m definitely not trying to argue that the Six is going to be the same as their flagship units, but it still isn’t clear from what I’ve seen online where those cuts exist and how they actually impact the intended use. IMO if you’re buying an X-Logic system or a full SSL setup this isn’t aimed at you…

[Oneven]

I’m quite curious to test the SiX. I have an Alpha Channel and I’m very pleased with it so it would be nice to do an AB on the pres.

Although the ones on the Alpha are VHD(can record very clean) and not Superanalogue like on the SiX so I’m not sure if they can truly be tested against each other.

Regardless of my fear for bad parts, the SiX is probably still a very nice console to own and use.

[dianus]

Spotted this today, a clone of the CMA-10-2DL DJ mixer. The design is open hardware. https://fabricastronautblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/pathos-mixer-the-end/

[Oneven]

That’s a real beauty!

[boboter]

This is very nice looking. Great find!

[wednesdayayay]

I’ve been thinking of this thread ever since I heard the announcement of this module
seems pretty neat

[bmoren]

A nice quick build (about 15mins). Looking forward to giving this a go! Thanks @TomWhitwell !

[TomWhitwell]

Makes me so happy to see these out in the world after they’ve been sitting on my desk for so long. (And you can almost read the llllllll.co reference up by the power header)

[eesn]

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