In the meantime, all my synths go into an old Mackie CR1604, the early one that Eno and Daft Punk used. The EQs are not great. It's ok for rolling off some treble or cutting a bit of bass but that's it. I have another Mackie from the same series called the Micro Series 1202 (also used by Eno & DP) that I mainly use for processing drum samples from an old TR-808, a Simmons SDS-800 and an SCI Drumtraks. I also have an old Kawai MX-8BR rack mixer that gives me the most amazing distortion. All 3 have good AUX sends though, I can slam things into the preamps and my delays & reverb stay clear, lush and wide. I almost always print with effects.
How many of you are using an actual mixer in your home studio?
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