clean af, daaaamn
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After trying to do a live audio jam in an Oakland Park and discovering that the sound output out of my passive mixer was incredibly quiet I am looking for a new portable tiny mixer. Preferably something self powered. Seems like my options are:
Bastl Bestie
This guy
Making my own??
Or possibly finding a very small amplifier so it can actually be heard. IDK
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Roland makes some small battery powered amps that have multiple channels built in, but they’re kinda pricey.
Depending on the scale of these jams, I’ve showed up to things with a battery powered synth and a Bluetooth speaker with an aux input or even a boom box with one of those tape adapters that people used to play portable cd players or mp3 players through their car’s tape deck.
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maybe the speaker I brought was just too quiet, but I have a passive mixer that I use that seems to divide the sound by 3
i’m pretty sure that’s just how passive mixers work, they are pretty niche in function
that moukey thing looks fabulous. you aren’t using anything that needs pre-amplification (like microphones) so that should be perfect for what you’re doing. the bastl bestie is incredible overkill, but a very nice piece of kit.
DIY is always fun but those moukey things are cheap as heck
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My early live rig involved a passive mixer (this novelty yet made of metal DJ style thing with a fader that I got from urban outfitters’ clearance bin) with one side being fed by one of those belkin star quarter inch five way headphone splitters being used backwards, with guitar pedals and my amp bringing everything back up on at the end of the line.
https://reverb.com/item/70360829-unique-sharp-echo-tremolo-adaptor-real-twin-spring-reverb-and-tremolo-effect?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=70360829
ordered one of these (for cheaper I’ll have you know) and it’s on the way from thailand. why? I dunno, must have been particularly down lol
if it sounds any good ill have it live in the effects loop of my no tremolo no reverb amp. lots of reverbs can sound good of course but its hard to tolerate fake spring as a main amp sound. the fender vibro kings for instance have onboard hall reverb… corny if you ask me. springs are already corny in their own way, you really shouldn’t make it worse
anyway it sure looks cool
also got a thrift store roland cube for $12
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don’t they have tube-driven spring tanks?
its very funny I have a friend that does sound setups for venues and used to work at Mackie and i keep going “how do i make my audio toys work?”
sorry, vibro champ or at least these “68 custom” ones that are on sale now. i don’t know all about amps or anything…
also i don’t mean to besmirch vibro king about which everything is cool and i know about only cuz long ago was looking for the reverb with most knobs
my latest conundrum is trying to figure out if i want to devote the time to making heady techno like mabel’s “all aboard starship universe” all in the box on my m8 or if i should start trying to figure out a production workflow with external drum machines like this tr6s i just got
i feel like i could do it in the box but like, every time i do stuff on a roland drum machine it sounds so goddamn good that i get obsessed with it for a few weeks every time
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ah i should get a Roland T-8, literally all of their good drum machines and the tb-3 in one thingy.
I purchased a pair of Bluetooth studio monitors for my upstairs studio. (Presonus Eris 4.5 BT) with Iso pads, all said and done about $200
feels bad purchasing during the recession to come but yeah I hope to listen to music from my phone in there soon. while I practice piano
also want to upgrade my piano bench eventually… Roland ones maybe
oh yeah absolutely get one - it’s kind of incredible how playable it is, all the annoying youtube reviewers are like “there’s too much menu diving” while their entire channels are centered around how they only like hardware because you can press buttons and turn knobs…like guys just memorize the combos and use your goddamn hands ffs
like i played this open mic a few weeks ago and before the open mic they had a lil synth show off session and so i brought my t-8 and i think i might have convinced like 2 people to get one because of how good it sounds just straight up and then the fact that it’s just techno in a box
the entirety of my last live set was basically me realizing that the t-8 is good and also if you can put breaks over it then it sounds even better
(lil rant here: i’m so annoyed by how much posturing there is by so much of synthesizer land about how DJs don’t “do anything” up to and including videos where they show DJs playing with knobs that don’t do anything like the headphone volume or whatever and it’s like, at least they’re dancing and using their hands on stage? do you know how much goddamn shows i’ve been to that have been billed as “live hardware” where the person is neither dancing NOR touching their gear at all? if i wanted to listen to what is essentially an mp3 being played i’d do it at home!! argh!!)
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Huh I guess Earthquaker Devices collaborated with Boris. Wata sent them her guitar pedal and they basically cloned it. I might need this
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that sounds great. i got an earthquaker plumes just because of hisako tabuchi from number girl/toddle/bloodthirsty butchers etc
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crossed the asshole rubicon by ordering a wireless iem system. in my defense the drummer in one of my bands made the jump first, we’ve had fucky stage mixes at the last several shows.
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