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Re: Mixers...

2003-09-20 by peterpan

cheers ed, think i'm going to go for the eurorack ub502 that vern 
kindly pointed out the other day. its exactly what i need and its 
very well priced.

pete








--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus" 
<liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "peterpan" <malakies2000@y...> 
wrote:
> > I was thinking about that a while ago but for some reason I had 
> > dismissed it. I think it was something to do with losing quality, 
> > will i lose more quality through this method or would a mixer not 
> > make much difference? BTW the 2 modules will be the DTXpressI and 
> the 
> > TD-8.
> 
> Pete,
> 
> If you can afford it, get an external mixer (someone who can afford 
> the TD-8 can't afford a sub-$100 mixer?). I don't recall whether 
the 
> TD-8 has its own little mixer into which you could run the Xpress, 
> but, either way, the sound quality of these two modules is too good 
> to be wasted on such a procedure. The control is nowhere near as 
good 
> as you'd get from even a modestly priced mixer w/o too many 
> extraneous bells and whistles. The Yamaha mixer is a convenience 
for 
> those w/o alternatives or needs, but it is no substitute for a 
> separate component.
> 
> Ed

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