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Re: [microsound] playing the no-input mixing board



Gregory Elliott wrote:

> On a more personal note, after being exposed to Nakamura's work, I've been =
> working with this instrument a lot myself with a Behringer mixer. It is an =
> exciting sound source, but working with it has made me greatly appreciate w=
> hat Nakamura is doing.

Greg Headley wrote:

> Based on my own experience I would think it's a fairly recent innovation.
> You need a really clean mixer (i.e. not noisy). Older or cheaper mixers are
> too hard to control and don't give nice smooth feedback. I have a tiny
> four-channel Behringer that works great.


Actually the thought of those Behringer mixers crossed my mind.

Focusing on their recent designs (not those older alleged Mackie clones)
My understanding is the convert everything to digital internally
(regardless if the unit has digital i/o), mix via DSP then back - right?
So that has to make them behave somewhat differently than older mixers
when dealing with DC, overload, etc. Assuming it's a newer one the
second opinion makes sense as it's not going to pass out of range input
thereby perhaps doing some beneficial taming 

As to my comment about about outboard fx, if the performance goal is
shaped feedback then you got it, go for it. If some kind of minimalist
aesthetic is being presented and one has a quantity of fx going I'm not
so sure, in many ways it's getting close to a not so minimalist modular
synthesizer (albeit one probably without the defining voltage control).

nick kent
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