Relocating to Asia Behringer has moved their manufacturing plants to what is now known as Behringer City, Zhongshan. Much of Behringer’s woes and reputation as being a manufacturer of unreliable products can also be said of other manufacturers moving their tooling to Chinese shores. I won’t mention product names, only that I have worked with three different brands all of which went through the same crises. Oh, yes there’s plenty more. Remember the catastrophic leaky capacitors and inferior electrolyte problems of the late 90s and early 2000s.
PA System and Mixer failure
With the millions of forums available to musicians on the web the one thing that really stands out is the bad advice that is often …
Patch Bays or Mixers
Patch Bays and Mixers, sometimes the obvious isn’t so obvious. There are lots of posts on the forums where users are either attempting to build …
Focusrite 18i20 Revision One
Focusrite 18i20 Release One As an avid user and lover of the Focusrite mic preamps I recently found my preamp had a broken button for …
DIY DAC for Audio
Bits, Bytes and Sampling – DIY DAC To kick off we need to piss of a couple of people, one being the high end user …
“Sound City” – A forgotten Art
Sound City and analogue mixers I watched this movie a few weeks back and it had me intrigued on many levels. Not just the snippets …
Multiplexers (and demultiplexers)
Some thoughts on Multiplexers In a previous article on Patchbays and the author’s own dilemma at having to switch different components in an audio system …
Analogue Routing – patchbays and cables
Patchbays – routing your signal Note: This is a preliminary article and will cover the construction of a basic Arduino controlled patch bay/audio signal router. …
Upgrading to the new Mixer or Mic-preamplifier
To upgrade or not to upgrade is the question So last year Focusrite decided to change their range of 1st gen Scarlett series to 2nd …