Onboard effects

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I believe that's what it's called when a mixer has effects already programmed in. Is this a good feature? Does it save noise or trouble? Or is it generally disapointing?


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Drummyjoey said:
I believe that's what it's called when a mixer has effects already programmed in. Is this a good feature? Does it save noise or trouble? Or is it generally disapointing?


Joe
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Effects built in to mixers are generally pretty cheesy.
 
They are good for three things: live use, reverb in headphones while tracking, and entertaining your children with the cathedral echo setting :)
 
Kevin, everytime I see that cat in your sig, for some reason it reminds me of Scarface. :)

Oh... and yes, FX built in to mixers are pretty lame, mostly because they're just cheap and built into cheap mixers. So a lot of corners are cut. About the only "on board" FX of any device I like is the KDFX in Kurzweil K2600 synth/workstations because they're fantastic and infinitely tweakable. Would easily compete with other multiFX standalone devices that cost around 1500-2000$, and the ones in the Motif ES because they're good quality... but in a $500 mixer, don't expect miracles.
 
What about the mixers from Allen & Heath? Can I assume the same for those? Those are around the thousand dollar range, but I still can't guess whether they would be useable or not.
 
noisewreck said:
Kevin, everytime I see that cat in your sig, for some reason it reminds me of Scarface. :)
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"say hello to my little friend." :D
 
Are you recording to your computer? If so, buy a model w/o the built in effects and I promise you that the free/cheap/reasonable software effects you can get with the money left over will sound much better and be much more flexible.
 
Drummyjoey said:
What about the mixers from Allen & Heath? Can I assume the same for those? Those are around the thousand dollar range, but I still can't guess whether they would be useable or not.
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Those are the ones I was talking about :D
 
General Rule Of Life #119:

Anything or anyone that tries to do everything is usually great at nothing.

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SouthSIDE Glen said:
General Rule Of Life #119:

Anything or anyone that tries to do everything is usually great at nothing.

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2 exceptions. Kurzweil K2600. NI Reaktor. They do (al)most (every)thing(s), and are great at majority of them :D
 
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