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8 Channel Input Summing Mixer

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Analog summing

Is a popular technique used in music production that can provide numerous benefits to the sound. Unlike digital signals, analog signals have complex sinusoidal voltages that include harmonics and other elements. Analog summings produce 1st, 2nd, 3rd harmonics and saturation/rounding peaks that can add warmth, richness, and fatness to the sound. Additionally, analog summing provides a buffer zone for harmonics, transients, or loud sounds without risking clipping, resulting in a more dynamic, open, and wide sound with a greater sense of depth.

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Digital mixing, on the other hand, is a mathematical summing process that produces an exact output.

In contrast, analog mixing sums tracks as sinusoidal voltages, resulting in a sum that includes pleasant harmonic distortion, rounding, transparency, and more spatial depth. Boosting the DAW output level can produce pleasant harmonic distortion in digital mixing, simulating the effect of analog summing.

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Headroom

is a safet zone that allows transient audio peaks to exceed the nominal level without damaging the system or the audio signal, e.g., via clipping. In digital and analog audio, headroom provides a buffer zone for harmonics, transients, or loud sounds without risking clipping, resulting in a more dynamic, open, and wide sound with a greater sense of depth. In analog audio, 0dB is perfectly fine and has about 15-20 dB of headroom, whereas in digital, exceeding 0dB can cause a clipping mess.

Setting up a summing mixer involves connecting the mixer’s inputs to the DAW outputs and then connecting the mixer’s outputs to the DAW inputs. The signal routing depends on the mixer’s capabilities, such as stereo to mono input conversion switches, and the desired configuration of the tracks. For example, a basic routing setup could involve connecting the bass/drums to channels 1/2, vocals to channels 3/4, guitars to channels 5/6, and keys/effects to channels 7/8.

Another setup that involves a summing mixer with a stereo to mono input conversion switch could involve mono kick and bass on channels 1 and 2, snare, hats, and some percs on channels 3/4, percussions, toms, and synth blips on channels 5/6, and synths, effects, pads, guitars, piano, and vocals on channels 7/8. The stereo to mono input conversion switch can be used to switch between stereo and mono inputs as needed.