[sdiy] Voltage Controlled Mixer

[john mahoney]

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"Elby" inquired:
> Does anybody out there have some schematics for making a
voltage-controlled mixer? I need to build a mixer desk for the dance-band I
work with.

Michael "over-opinionated" Bacich replied:
> ... Buy a modern low-cost digital mixer and be done with it.
> ... you and your bandmates will wish you had gotten one of them the first
time your DIY mixer takes a DIY dump on the gig.

And I'll add my 2 cents:

1) I'm sure that MB didn't mean to suggest that LB does sub-standard work
(right, Michael?). However, it tends to reflect poorly on the builder when
DIY gear fails. ("That damn thing you made broke!") Commercial gear breaks,
too, but perception is a bitch.

2) I assume that there was a reason that Laurie specified a
voltage-controlled mixer. Synth-controlled mixing, perhaps? Well,
voltage-controlled level just means "a VCA in the audio path." You can place
a VCA in the effect send/receive loop for any channel of a helf-decent
mixer, for example; even my old Mackie 1202 has inserts on the mono
channels.
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john