LittleOne 8×2 Analog Stereo Balanced Passive Summing Mixer Box – DSUB, TRS or XLR

8×2 TRS – XLR Passive Analog Studio Summing Mixer

Bring your digital mixes into the analog world. Hand-built 8-input passive analog DJ/studio summing mixer with balanced TRS/XLR I/O. Universal DAW & audio interface compatibility for hybrid mixing.

AVAILABLE WITH TRS, XLR OR DB25 I/O – ASK!

The Vintage Maker 8×2 Passive Analog Summing Mixer is designed for engineers and producers who want greater depth, punch, stereo imaging and headroom than traditional in-the-box mixing.

Instead of summing audio mathematically inside your DAW, six balanced analog channels are combined through a carefully matched passive resistor network, creating a wide, open and natural stereo image. Read more about behind science: https://vintagemaker.net/blog/

Compatible with every professional DAW and virtually any balanced audio interface.

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Universal Compatibility

Works with

• Pro Tools
• Cubase
• Logic Pro
• Studio One
• Reaper
• Ableton Live
• FL Studio
• Nuendo
• Bitwig Studio
• Cakewalk
• Digital Performer
• Reason
• Samplitude
• GarageBand
• and many more.

Compatible with interfaces from

• Universal Audio
• RME
• Focusrite
• MOTU
• Apogee
• SSL
• Audient
• Steinberg
• PreSonus
• Behringer
• Native Instruments
• Avid
• Tascam
• and virtually any balanced line-level interface.

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Also Perfect for Hardware Instruments

The mixer isn’t limited to DAWs.

Connect

• Synthesizers
• Drum Machines
• Samplers
• Grooveboxes
• Hardware Effects
• Keyboards
• Analog Modules

or combine them together with your DAW outputs into one analog stereo mix.

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Why Analog Summing?

Passive analog summing offers benefits impossible to recreate with simple digital summing.

Benefits include:

• Bigger stereo image
• Better instrument separation
• Improved transient response
• Increased analog headroom
• More natural low-end
• Smooth high frequencies
• Better depth perception
• Easier mix balance

Drive your output converters slightly hotter into the summing mixer to introduce subtle analog saturation and harmonic richness while maintaining excellent transient headroom.

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Optional Features

Available on request:

• Stereo / Mono Input switches
• Input Direct → Output monitoring switch
• Custom attenuation (-6, -10, -15 dB / -20 dB / -25 dB)
• XLR or DB25 connectors
• Desktop or rack enclosure
• Custom channel count

Every unit is built to order.

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Technical Specifications

• 8 balanced TRS inputs
• Stereo balanced TRS output
• Passive resistor summing network
• Precision Vishay Dale military-grade metal film resistors
• Output impedance: 600 Ω–1 kΩ balanced
• Frequency response: 0 Hz–500 kHz
• Crosstalk @1 kHz: better than -95 dB
• Signal-to-noise ratio: better than -110 dB
• TRS wiring:
  • Tip = Hot (+)
  • Ring = Cold (−)
  • Sleeve = Ground
• Hand wired
• Point-to-point construction
• Laser engraved aluminum enclosure
• Individually tested before shipping

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Handmade

Every Vintage Maker summing mixer is individually hand-built, wired, tested and calibrated.

No mass production.

Only professional studio hardware built to order.

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Need Something Different?

Need XLR?

Need DB25?

Need 10, 12, 16 or 24 channels?

Need insert routing, monitor control or custom switching?

Tell me your studio setup and I’ll build the exact summing mixer you need.

Learn More

• How to Connect a Summing Mixer
  Step-by-step guide to setting up a summing mixer in a hybrid analog studio workflow.
  👉 https://vintagemaker.net/how-to-connect-summing-mixer-setting-up/

• Analog Headroom Explained
  Learn why analog headroom matters, how it affects punch, depth, and clarity, and why it’s essential in analog summing.
  👉 https://vintagemaker.net/analog-headroom-why-you-should-use-it/

STM – Stereo or Mono Input Switch: It provides an extra stable Real Analog Mono Base for your mix (on monos like Kick/Bass/MainVox/Snare and so on), saving precious digital-to-analog (DA) channels (so you don’t waste stereo L/R for a mono instrument), and offers superior separation and 3D depth for the rest of your stereo instruments. This feature turns L/R inputs ‘COMBINED’ (two hard-panned L/R inputs) into an absolutely centered mono signal (1 x stereo to 2 mono). For example, ‘SNARE’ on channel 1 (left), ‘KICK’ on channel 2 (right). Mono instruments in the DAW sequencer (Steinberg cubase, pro tools, flstudio, reaper, logic pro, Ableton etc.) should place the kick hard left, the bass hard on the right, and so on. Stereo instruments: If you don’t use mono channels in your mix, simply turn down all the mono switches, and you’ll have a fully stereo analog summing mixer with panning options available from the DAW. See documentation and audio examples…

Mono Mode Routing from DAW:

• In 1: Mono Kick

• In 2: Mono Bass

• In 3/4: Snare, hi-hats, some percussion → Stereo

• In 5/6: Percussion, toms, synth blips, etc. → Stereo
  Panning from DAW is available for 3/4, 5/6, stereo inputs.

Stereo Mode Routing from DAW:

• In 1/2: Main Stereo tracks → Stereo

• In 3/4: Kick, Snare, hi-hats, some percussion → Stereo

• In 5/6: Percussion, toms, synth blips, etc. → Stereo
  Panning from DAW is available for all stereo inputs.