[sdiy] DIY mixer/console

Vinicius Brazil brazil.v at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 15:03:34 CET 2021


I did something like this in the 80's.
a 16-channel keyboard mixer for a studio, with send/return and eq´s. No
mic´s inputs.
I think it is still used today.
I made other smaller ones for my use.

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On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 9:11 AM Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net> wrote:

> Gagh! Brave man! That sounds like a mighty project.
>
> The *first* thing I would do if I even considered taking on such a task
> would be to design a nice channel strip PCB with all the pots down one edge
> so that I had zero wiring to do!
>
> Tom
>
> > On 1 Dec 2021, at 12:01, rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk wrote:
> >
> > When I was younger and just getting into electronic music I designed and
> built my own 24-channel mixer with stereo outputs, 4 channel EQ on each
> channel, mic pre-amps, insertion points, pre- and post-fade FX sends,
> aux/tape returns, mute/solo switching etc.  I naively thought it would be
> cheap to do!  It was a pain making the enclosure (from wood!), took ages to
> solder up all the electronics (mostly on veroboard with lots of flying
> leads to the pots and switches!!!), and ended up being waaaaaay more
> expensive than I had imagined.
> >
> > It also picked up numerous European Short-Wave radio stations at night,
> buzzed every time the heating switched on or off, and always had at least 2
> channels with intermittent faults due to poor soldering at any one time!
> >
> > It looked pretty cool, and I was happy from an achievement point of view
> (was easily satisfied in those days ;-))  but I was forever opening it up
> to fix stuff, and definitely wouldn't embark on anything like that again!
> >
> > -Richie,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2021-11-30 17:43, ColinMuirDorward via Synth-diy wrote:
> >> Who here has done or tried it?
> >> Please feel free to share pictures, stories, warnings, etc :)
> >> Cheers,
> >> Colin
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