Digital mixer consoles

Digital mixers

With digital mixing consoles, you harmoniously merge sound tracks and create a unique sound experience. This makes your music a pure listening pleasure.

No song without a mixer

A mixer, also called a mixing console, is used to record, mix and match audio tracks. Various electrical signals are combined here to produce a coherent whole. Individual sound tracks can also be modified by various effects. Mixing consoles are essential tools for music production and event technology. In addition to signal quality, these factors must be considered more closely on both analog and digital mixing consoles:

• Number of input channels
• Number of outputs
• Sound editing options
• Arrangement of the controls for fluent hand movements

What is a digital mixer?

Digital mixers are the further development of the classic analog devices. They score with their many functions and the high number of channels that converge in a relatively small device.

Disadvantage loss of quality?

Digital mixing = worse music?

Rumor has it that digital mixing consoles deliver poorer quality than their analog cousins. Digital critics complain that signals and sounds are "soft washed", the music is too smooth and there is audible signal loss.

Other signal processing

The reason for this opinion could be the different processing of the signals:
Analog mixing consoles generate and process an electrical image of the sound. However, the signal flow of analog devices is also subject to considerable influences, from input to output. These must be considered, evaluated and eliminated during mixing in order to obtain the most original signal possible. Meanwhile, with digital mixers, the quality always remains the same. These devices convert the sound into a digital signal and then process it with processors.

Pay attention to the right factors

Nevertheless, even among digital mixing consoles there are sometimes considerable differences in quality. Important parameters are the resolution (bit rate) and the temporal rasterization (sampling rate). In order to come as close as possible to the analog signal, the sound sampling should therefore be both as fast as possible and as fine as possible.

What are the advantages of a digital mixer?

Digital mix consoles combine the best features that inspire music producers and event technicians:

• Countless functions: Many useful functions refine your sound down to the last detail. Even simple digital mixers already provide you with a variety of helpful effects - thanks to multiple assignments of individual controls and layer switching. It is also no longer a problem to process one channel with different effects at the same time. So when buying a digital mixer, also pay attention to whether and how you can use the wide range of effects and editing options.

• Easy saving: Create a mix now and edit it later - digital mixers make it easier than ever! You don't just save the mix in the same device; in "scenes" or "snapshots" you also record the fader and channel settings and the various sound functions. This way, after a break, you immediately pick up where you left off.

• Slim design: Thanks to the switching function, you get full effects bandwidth in a compact unit with few channel strips, buttons and knobs! So even on a small budget, you have a wealth of useful features, including USB ports, noise gates, and DCA groups. Ergonomic and intuitive operation isn't the only thing digital mixing consoles provide. Large displays, illuminated controls and groupings make work even easier. So all handles sit even in dark places.

• Cost-efficient: Particularly with larger mixing consoles, it becomes apparent that digital technology tends to be less expensive to manufacture than analog equipment. And even if you shell out a little more money for the basic digital equipment, upgrading and expanding it is comparatively inexpensive.

• Easily expandable: In terms of connectivity, digital mixers are in no way inferior to analog devices. Plus point: More and more often, another music PC is no longer needed. The integrated audio interfaces in digital mixers meet modern studio standards.

• Matching cases: If the manufacturer does not supply the right transport box for your digital mixer, you can find high-quality cases, racks and bags from us. You will receive tailor-made cases for the transport and storage of your new piece of gold.

Large selection, competent advice

There are countless mixers in the most diverse designs and for all needs. Our offer ranges from digital mixers with 20 channels to compact digital mixers with scene automation, password protection and freely programmable fader levels. Therefore, inform yourself thoroughly to find the right model. Our expert staff will be happy to advise you.