Spare case filled
Added 2019-11-09 15:46:52 +0000 UTCI wanted to test the Noise Reap Dub Delay and the Rucci matrix mixer .. and the patch turned out just interesting enough to record. I bought the Rucci because the matrix mixer I tried to build never worked right. It was a total headache to build, and several of the pots went bad (I probably burned them with the soldering iron). Even after laboriously testing with a meter and replacing the bad pots it still didn't work. Ah well, this store-bought one is incredibly rugged and the knobs feel wonderful. AND IT WORKS
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There is some "loading effect" signal loss .. but that gets worse the more things you have plugged in. Since modular level can be (theoretically) as hot as 18v peak-to-peak, some attenuation is in fact desirable! The signal loss is such that it will never make an effect pedal feed back though .. which was the reason I tried building one in the first place. Nick Collins said you could create controlled feedback loops, but you CAN'T! Not with a passive mixer.
2019-11-10 00:09:05 +0000 UTCokay, let's see.... uhmm... interesting... doesn't the signal lose a lot of decibels on a 4x4 *passive* mixer? i'm sick at the moment so i am definitively not doing math in my head but eyeing it it looks like a possible drop of 50 decibels which... okay then gets a bit better given it has 4 inputs so each inputs recovers part of those, but it's still something like a 12 decibel drop aaand you might get really bad results if the outputs aren't in the same number as the inputs. i mean, optimally 4 inputs and 3 outputs should give you the same strength of signal, but once again i'm totally eyeing it. hmmm... aside from the sick-mind-induced rant above i am happy everything goes well and you got a new toy.
Simone Spinozzi
2019-11-09 16:07:39 +0000 UTC
