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Topic: Mixer for multi-instruments |
Tim Whitlock
From: Colorado, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2019 9:22 am
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How do you multi instrumentalists route your steel guitars/elec guitars/mandolin/whatever to your amp? I'm tired of unplugging, plugging, changing eq, etc, when I change instruments. Can a small mixer like this one allow me to have everything plugged in so I can just grab the next instrument and start playing? I'd be sending the line out to my Twin Reverb.
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Doug Earnest
From: Branson, MO USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2019 11:53 am
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I did that for several years using a little Mackie mixer, similar to the one you have pictured. It worked fine. We were just playing local bar gigs, Moose clubs and such. No one in the audience ever complained. |
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Kevin Mincke
From: Farmington, MN (Twin Cities-South Metro) USA
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Chris Tarrow
From: Maplewood, NJ
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Greg Lambert
From: Illinois, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2019 2:25 pm
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A great Idea. I use one all the time. You can Eq , set the level etc for each instrument on the mixer. |
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Tony Prior
From: Charlotte NC
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Posted 4 Feb 2019 11:59 pm
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sure, why not ! I have a 4 channel ( Behringer) that I have owned for well over 10 years that I have used for various "swap inputs" scenarios . Always performed well. _________________ Emmons L-II , Fender Telecasters, B-Benders , Eastman Mandolin ,
Pro Tools 12 on WIN 7 !
jobless- but not homeless- now retired 9 years
CURRENT MUSIC TRACKS AT > https://tprior2241.wixsite.com/website |
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Scott Duckworth
From: Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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Posted 5 Feb 2019 3:42 am
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I would suggest stepping up a little and get a mixer with mute buttons on each channel. _________________ Amateur Radio Operator NA4IT (Extra)
http://www.qsl.net/na4it
I may, in fact, be nuts. However, I am screwed onto the right bolt... Jesus! |
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Godfrey Arthur
From: 3rd Rock
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Posted 5 Feb 2019 7:42 am Re: Mixer for multi-instruments
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Tim Whitlock wrote: |
I'd be sending the line out to my Twin Reverb. |
Although any decent mixer should work and in a pinch get by but the input impedance of your Twin is made for instrument level and set at a specific impedance and the line out of any one mixer will not be instrument level but "line" impedance.
Depending on how discreet you need to be, you might need an impedance corrector going from line to instrument to make good use of both devices, your mixer of choice and your Twin. 1M ohm on your Twin, 120 ohms main output on your mixer.
May need something like a reamp box that will convert your mixer line level to be compatible with the instrument level of your Twin if you want to do it right.
_________________ ShoBud The Pro 1
YES it's my REAL NAME!
Ezekiel 33:7 |
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Tony Prior
From: Charlotte NC
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Posted 5 Feb 2019 9:04 am
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Several outs available on these small mixers, Line, Control Room and Phones out. Just remember to pan one way or the other. An amp input can get by with them. Use #2 if it's to much gain . _________________ Emmons L-II , Fender Telecasters, B-Benders , Eastman Mandolin ,
Pro Tools 12 on WIN 7 !
jobless- but not homeless- now retired 9 years
CURRENT MUSIC TRACKS AT > https://tprior2241.wixsite.com/website |
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Bill A. Moore
From: Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2019 10:15 am
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One can mute the instruments with the mixer shown, by using the mic/line switch. |
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Jeff Porter
From: Stumptown, OR, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2019 10:53 am
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I've tried a small mixer into an amp and had mixed results. It was often noisey, and there were a lot of cables etc. to mess with.
Last tour I used one of these and it worked great. Simple and enough control for what I do.
http://www.radialeng.com/product/bigshot-io _________________ "I make dozens of dollars a year playing music." |
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Ken Morgan
From: Midland, Texas, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2019 12:13 pm
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Jeff Porter wrote: |
I've tried a small mixer into an amp and had mixed results. It was often noisey, and there were a lot of cables etc. to mess with.
Last tour I used one of these and it worked great. Simple and enough control for what I do.
http://www.radialeng.com/product/bigshot-io |
This was my thought as well...eliminates level & impedance issues, silent switching, etc...
Two of these could offer 4 instruments, a pair into the normal and a pair into the reverb channel...
Just a thought _________________ 67 Shobud Blue Darling III, scads of pedals and such, more 6 strings than I got room for
Ken Morgan
Midland, TX |
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Godfrey Arthur
From: 3rd Rock
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Posted 5 Feb 2019 9:15 pm
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Jeff Porter wrote: |
I've tried a small mixer into an amp and had mixed results. It was often noisey, and there were a lot of cables etc. to mess with.
Last tour I used one of these and it worked great. Simple and enough control for what I do.
http://www.radialeng.com/product/bigshot-io |
I tend to agree that using a mixer is not fool proof but one can get by. It is not optimum unless the impedances are right. A mixer into a power amp with speakers is one thing, but into a guitar amp, YMMV. _________________ ShoBud The Pro 1
YES it's my REAL NAME!
Ezekiel 33:7 |
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Tim Whitlock
From: Colorado, USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2019 9:40 am
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I appreciate all the feedback. Seems to be a mixed bag (haw!) of opinions. The price of the pictured mixer is low enough to pass the CFO's approval and if it doesn't work out it can be used for other stuff. Some of the other suggested products are a bit above the price point where I would just continue my current plug/unplug routine. |
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Randy Schneider
From: SW New Mexico, USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2019 10:14 am
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A lot of those mixers (like the one pictured) do not have high-impedance (instrument pickup) inputs. Guitars should have some sort of buffer before the mixer input. |
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Chris Tarrow
From: Maplewood, NJ
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Posted 6 Feb 2019 11:53 am
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none of the outputs on a mixer are instrument level.
cheap mic amps, eq, fader circuits add noise.
you really just want an a/b/c/d box. |
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J.D.White
From: Lafayette, Louisiana
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Posted 6 Feb 2019 12:55 pm
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Not a mixer - but a cheap way to get the job done. You can eliminate parts within the red boundary, use single-pole switches, mono jacks & a chicken-head pointer knob instead of the battery & led indicators.
From an old issue of Guitar Player Magazine (Sept. 1982)
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Tim Whitlock
From: Colorado, USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2019 9:48 am
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I like this - so simple. It could be even simpler to leave out the switch and just mute each instrument with its volume knob. However the reason the mixer is attractive is that it lets you shape the gain and eq before it goes to the amp. That way you can balance your instruments out at the mixer and not have to change your amp settings when you change instruments.
J.D.White wrote: |
Not a mixer - but a cheap way to get the job done. You can eliminate parts within the red boundary, use single-pole switches, mono jacks & a chicken-head pointer knob instead of the battery & led indicators.
From an old issue of Guitar Player Magazine (Sept. 1982)
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Steve Sycamore
From: Sweden
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Jerry Erickson
From: Atlanta,IL 61723
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Posted 8 Feb 2019 10:14 am
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When I used to play through a Twin Reverb, I would use a reverb device for my pedal steel and plug into the normal channel and use the reverb channel for my guitar. Two channel amp, no need for a mixer. |
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