09-05-2018, 08:23 PM
After adding the TG100 and M-GS64 to my RMM setup, I have effectively run out of channels on my old Behringer MX 802A mixer. I've been looking around for a 16 channel mixer, but quickly realized that once you outgrow the 4-8 channel hobbyist/home studio level stuff, you're going to have to fork out €200-300 on the used market or twice that or more for a new one. Not saying it's expensive really, just that I'm not prepared to spend that kind of money on a mixer for this project, at least not at this point.
Luckily, small Behri mixers can be had for ~€20 so I simply went ahead and got another one, a UB1202, and just daisy chained them. The four PC sound cards go into the MX 802A, which in turn is fed via Tape Out to the Tape In on the UB1202. The two sound modules go into the UB1202, and I still have six mono channels (or three stereo) to spare if I want to add more stuff. It's a bit kludgy, but it works. I'm not doing any realtime mixing with these anyway, it's all pretty much set-and-forget, so it doesn't really matter that everything's spread out over two different units.
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Still, having a 16 channel mixer would be a far more elegant solution but this'll do until I come across one at a good price. At least now I can have everything plugged in at the same time and use both sound cards and sound modules together if I so desire.
Luckily, small Behri mixers can be had for ~€20 so I simply went ahead and got another one, a UB1202, and just daisy chained them. The four PC sound cards go into the MX 802A, which in turn is fed via Tape Out to the Tape In on the UB1202. The two sound modules go into the UB1202, and I still have six mono channels (or three stereo) to spare if I want to add more stuff. It's a bit kludgy, but it works. I'm not doing any realtime mixing with these anyway, it's all pretty much set-and-forget, so it doesn't really matter that everything's spread out over two different units.
Still, having a 16 channel mixer would be a far more elegant solution but this'll do until I come across one at a good price. At least now I can have everything plugged in at the same time and use both sound cards and sound modules together if I so desire.
