I’ve been working on a design for a small line mixer since January, on and off. I’m getting pretty close now- I’ve got a working circuit and managed to get the enclosure design working. I need to make a few tweaks to the board design, as some components need to be moved in order for it to fit in the box
This particular one is an unbalanced design, with 4 inputs over 2 mini XLR inputs, outputting to a single mini xlr output. The reason for this is to work with my Sonosax recorder and mixer, in order to be able to be able to add the recorder’s 4 XLR inputs to a mix (on the bus in for the mixer) and still record pre-fade ISO tracks.
The holes at the top are for L-C-R panning switches, which will need to be glued into place (one’s actually on the table in the photo above to the left).
I’ve made sure to use high quality components in the circuit- resistors on the inputs are matched within 0.1% tolerance and high quality op-amps have been used. The most expensive parts were the sfernice conductive plastic potentiometers, though.
There’s no internal batteries, but it will run on sources from around 9-16V, with the internal regulator providing +15 and-15V for the op-amps
Here’s how it fits in the bag.
It shouldn’t be too different making a balanced design using 5 pin mini XLRs- I went through one in the design process. There’s also a headphone amp on the board, I’m wondering where I can squeeze a 3.5mm jack and a small level pot in there.
As the boards are being fabricated I may be able to sell some of these as kits, if it’s useful to anyone else