Weird.

Actually Juho.....there are a number of "Analogue summing units" for sale these days, offering a cure for digital mixes.

It's the latest "fad" out there for people mixing "in the box". Supposedly you can get better results by sending a bunch of stereo mixes from the computer out to one of these analogue summing devices, than if you were to mix entirely from the computer.

They tend to be of better quality than your average Mackie desk, but I think the differences would be negligible. If you can mix well, then an analogue summing device wont improve things that much, and if you cant mix well, then there is no saving your mixes.

daw mixing is very common now days but people are still looking for that neve\ssl analog console sound.
just send everything on one side get pure honey on the other side.


just something i was wondering jase.
do analog summers have multiply outputs (seround..) ?

A summing device wont do this though.......you will need a Neve for that!

I dont think so.....well, not the ones I have seen anyhoo.

Decent mixers have direct outs on all channels, and 8-bus mixers also have, er, 8 busses (each with direct outs), in addition to the stereo out. :)

Hmm... Isn't it trivial to sepperate mixers and "analog summign devices" as the mixers are analog summing devices. I assume that this "analog summign device" doesn't have faders, but still it's a mixer.

Re: MIDI
 

Well... that could be a digital audio signal as well...

...a very short one though :lol:

I prefer "mixer" rather than "analog summing devices". It's more relaxing for the fingers while typing :D

Re: MIDI
 

Cool! I didnt know that!

Stop picking nits Juho! When one says, "I just bought a mixer" it conjures up images of faders, EQ's, Aux sends/returns, Master outs etc....

When one says, "I just bought an anlogue summing device", what you would see is a 1 rack unit, plain box, with 8 ins and 2 outs on the rear.

Plus.....these analogue summing devices usually are of high quality, costing up to and above US$2000. Whereas a Mackie mixer with similar I/O costs peanuts.