Got the Mixer-of-1000-knobs today. Whee! It sat on our porch for two hours in the snow before I got up, but it’s fine. It’s a Behringer XENYX X2442USB Premium 24-Input 4/2-Bus Mixer (get it HERE).
People ask me “Why don’t you read books anymore?” Basically because I spend most of my time reading gear manuals. I did get a sound out of this thing, but it’s going to take me all day to figure out and master all its features.
The Feens got this mixer because my old mixer (the little blue one on the left, above), doesn’t have the ability to set up separate busses, which we need to be able to do in order to do live radio over the Comrex. (The Comrex is barely viewable here, just behind the top right of the big new Behringer mixer, under the shelf that contains the Presonus tube pre-amp.)
I’m selling the old mixer for 100 bucks, with US shipping included. It has a USB interface and phantom power, but only works on Windows XP (NOT Windows 7 or 8), and older Mac OSes. Drop me an e-mail if you’re interested, it’s a ALESIS MultiMix 8USB Audio Mixer.
Below: Kitty Customs agents checking in the new mixer at the border of Nestlandia:
Below: Kitty Customs agents whispering about whether or not to allow this mixer to pass through the border:
Reminder for me:
After a hard day of working for Kitty Customs, Peanut naps in his new bed, provided as a perk of the job by the Nation of Nestlandia. Poor Peeni, all worn out from enforcing kitty tyranny!:
“You woke me up! Let me go back to sleep, or I’ll arrest you!”:
While Peeni naps, the second shift of Kitty Customs begins, with Fuzzy checking out some mic stands:
Kitty Customs agent Fuzzy says “Don’t film me, you punks! I’ll arrest you!”:
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Congrats on the new mixer! You guys are coming far! Just a question though, what do “buses” do? I’ve been thinking of getting myself a decent mixer but this sounds like something important.
Here’s a good explanation:
“A bus is a fader with its own dedicated output. Said differently, a bus is a major pathway from all channels to a single fader connected to an output. You can take everything going to that fader out of the mixer where you can send it to another piece (or rack) of gear. You can also bring the signal back in to the mixer on spare channels. On mixers with busses, there are routing buttons on each channel that lets you route the whole signal to one of the busses. The Main bus is often called the L/R bus. Other busses are often grouped in pairs, like the 1-2 bus, 3-4 bus, as in our example above. There may also be another switch that lets you route these bus faders to the Master fader.
“Typical uses of busses are to send a track or groups of tracks to a digital multitrack, or to a soundcard or audio interface. Yet you can also be very creative with them, such as sending them to samplers, grooveboxs with analog inputs, surround encoders, separate compressors and more. Some busses may have inserts. These are nice as they let you return the external signal back to the mixer without eating up more channels.”
Here’s more:
“A bus is basically a path in which you can route one or more audio signals to a particular destination. Destinations can include groups, auxiliary sends, stereo mix, foldback or monitor. Commonly busses are used to route channel signals to a master group fader, a multitrack recorder, or the main stereo master fader (or all).
“In live sound applications it is favourable to have a number of busses available to use. This is due to the fact that as audio channels can be bussed together and controlled by one group fader, it frees up the hands of the engineer and gives him/her less faders to have to control on the fly. It should be noted that although the master group fader does have control over the level of the summed audio in the group, the individual levels will remain with the offset set on the channel fader.
“In Studio applications, busses can be used to group signals together for recording when there are too many channels of audio for them all to be sent to your multitracker/interface/soundcard. Busses are also commonly used to create a foldback headphone mix for the musician(s) to listen to. If you are using a smaller mixing desk for home recording there is not great need for a great number of busses – although it is good to have an auxilliary send and/or in built effects.”
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And here’s a good explanation of a mix minus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix-minus
If I send another donation, can I come to your house to push your buttons and twirl your knobs?
If the kitties let you through customs.