Category: Mixers

Behringer Digital Pro DDM4000

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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.

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Analogue and DSP audio mixers

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 given out to professionals seeking assistance in buying, fixing or modifying their rigs. I want to clarify from the outset that I am not a professional musician, neither, no longer,…

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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 their own patch bay or trying to switch a mic signal through a patch bay. The general feel is never to switch phantom power through a patch bay. A studio…

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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 wanting the fastest sampling rate possible and the second, that cheap means nasty. A DIY DAC may mean a purchase and mod with better supply or even a build from…

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