Mixers

The cruise-ship industry is booming, and with it a number of career opportunities — for those who can meet the unique challenges of mixing live sound at sea.

Drawing our mini-series to a close, we take you on a detailed tour of the mix and mastering stages of the Damnation’s Hammer album Unseen Planets, Deadly Spheres.

ART’s MX622 is a 1U rackmount mixer equipped with three balanced XLR microphone/line-level inputs, plus three stereo line inputs on RCA phono sockets.

I have a slight level mismatch that I don’t know how best to resolve. I want to patch the Dangerous Music Compressor through the inserts on two of an Allen & Heath GL2400 mixer’s input channels. The problem is that the send signal from the mixer is a tad weak for hitting the compressor where it works best...

Go-to producer for Taylor Swift, Lorde and St. Vincent, Jack Antonoff has the rare ability to translate wild experimentation into record sales.

Miktek’s MX4 mini-mixer includes its own phantom power source, which is a big step up from typical budget mini-mixers...

Radial’s innovative Key Largo is designed to sit at the heart of your live keyboard rig.

The quadroPOL works as a VC mixer or quad VCA, with the ring modulation and the polarising qualities adding something extra...

The DC16 control surface for Mackie’s DL32R digital mixer gives you the best of both iPad and hardware control.

Derived from the larger flagship Trident 88 consoles, this new range offers many of the same features for a lot less money.

German producer Zedd has become a star by bringing musicality to electronic dance music.

This neat little unit can serve either as a four-into-one passive stereo line mixer, or as a one-into-four stereo line splitter, just by using the appropriate input and output connectors. However, it goes rather further than that...

One of the highlights of the 2017 Manchester International Festival was a series of intimate live performances by New Order, who reinvented their stage show by introducing an entirely new set list and a 12-piece synthesizer orchestra!

Will the audio quality from an Allen & Heath XB-10 paired with a JK Audio Innkeeper telephone hybrid be better than the Allen & Heath ZED-10, also paired with an Innkeeper?

The latest firmware for QSC’s popular TouchMix-8 and -16 mixers endows them with a huge amount of extra functionality.

Ryan Hewitt’s career began in New York and saw him assisting Michael Brauer and Phil Ramone. However, it was in LA that he...

Star producer Ariel Rechtshaid inhabits many different musical worlds at once. No wonder he’s busy...