D.I.Y. Mixer

[KA4HJH]

>All methods will drive you nuts but option 3 comes complete with a
>prescription for prozac. If you aren't already taking in prior to
>contemplating such an act.

Prozac won't help. You need something a LOT stronger. Trust me.  X)


>I would suggest from the outset that you get your front panels
>professionally made. Perhaps Ask Juergen about that  frontpanel designer
>guy in Germany. I haven't tried him out yet but what ever it costs to have
>it made and shipped, it'll be worth it. Trust me on this. After drilling
>the 10th hole and wishing it was easier to cut slots for faders, you'll
>wish you got someone else to do it.

Holes are bad enough (didn't get a drill press for Xmas--again), it's 
those damn slots...


>This is why I liked the Soundcraft-esk approach. Where each mixer channel
>was on a separate strip. But this it self causes problem. You then have to
>organize a back plane of some kind. Often this is nothing more than an IDC
>cable with lots of connectors on it. Or it could be like I once did, had a
>back-plain printed circuit board made with connectors on the strips which
>plugged conveniently into it. Only it wasn't a total success in that
>locating the connects together was often troublesome.

Another problem is that anything not bolted to the front panel is 
breakable. I once threw a cassette tape across the room. When it hit 
the input selector switch on my Tascam 388 it cracked the corner of a 
channel board right off!


>But! The advantage is that it's highly serviceable. If you have a clue. And
>the fact that you're building one probably indicates you have more of a
>clue than your average Adelaide sound engineer. In fact my dog drops better
>engineers in the garden that your average Adelaide sound engineer. Which
>probably explains why most music recorded in Adelaide is universally awful.
>But I digress.

This is a global problem.

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

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