The mixer of my dreams!
2Posted by DJ-ONE | February 17, 2009Since a few months we’ve been thinking about designing and realizing a new mixer. MB & I probably already tried everything available on the market and except customised old school Urei 1620 there’s nothing that really is exciting those days. Some might consider the new Bozak a solid option but so far no one has been able to tell when the first serie will eventually be released. Also there’s a risk this re-edition would be as bad as the Soundcraft 1620LE.
So, let’s dream a bit & imagine we would produce our own mixer. How would it look like?
We started on a TL Audio Fat Track base, with large rotary pots. Triple EQ per channel: Hi, Mid (Semi-Parametric), Bass. Pan & Fx send on each track. Then we added a X3004 like isolator, Sifam vintage Vu-Meters and 2 Valves to warm up the sound! 2 symetric master output, 1 booth output & here we go!
We did some research to figure out how much it would cost to start producing this mixer and found out that it should cost about 1000€ /piece (research phase excluded). So this would sell about 2500-3000€ max. At this price I’d buy it!
Why is there only lame mixers on the market those days?
Curious — what do you dislike so much about the 1620LE?
rs
the sound