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Elite Acoustics StompMix 4 Review & Demo
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Excellent review. Thanks Aaron.
I have one question. Can you flip the phase on one of the channels to see if it helps or hurts the blend of two pickups? |
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Super nice. If only this guy was battery powered like it's bigger brother. I wonder if you could power it with a USB powerpack and one of those 5v to 9v cables. That's how I power my pedals when I'm out busking. I don't see why it wouldn't work with this. Perhaps the power draw would be too much.
Also, found this in the FAQ on their site. "Can I plug Passive Pickups directly into the StompMix4? – No, StompMix 4 only support Active Pickups." Thanks for the review Aaron.
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Yeah, I'm sure they included that statement so users wouldn't think its intention was to be a high-end preamp for passive pickups. Something hot, like the K&K probably works fine but it may have more noise than if it was active or running through another preamp. Something lower output may need more assistance.
Sean De Burca told me he uses the K&K Trinity Preamp prior to the Stompmix as it seemed to work better, per his experience. YMMV.
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Great review as usual.
I also would have been tempted if this had battery power, but in the end I wouldn't buy a floor-mounted mixer anyway. I don't want to be leaning down to tweak live as needed, and those knobs seem a bit delicate if you miss stomping the A/B buttons (I guess those guards are to fend that off). I'm surprised there aren't more battery-powered mixers with at least basic effects--is there anything other than the StompMix's 6-channel big brother? And do digital mixers draw less current than analog? Surely it's a sign of my age but I'd buy say a lithium-powered analog Yamaha or A&H mixer immediately. Meanwhile the Boss VE-8, multi-effects combo pedal of thousands of comments here, runs on six AAA's. Sorry for the thread drift. |
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Although not battery powered, I think in mini mixers like this the Bose T1 Mixer is still the king with it's ten programmable scenes I can cover as many tones/fx as need for a performance. A good share of my gigs I'm playing in the same rooms, and the EQ doesn't really change, so the Bose works for me, although I wish it had a delay with tap tempo and longer settings. Maybe elite acoustics will upgrade their mixers to allow the delay on more channels with a firmware upgrade. They seen to be listening to people and upgrading their products so I'm keeping them in mind. |
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Hi Aaron,
how big is the wall wart? I guess a digital mixer needs a separate wall wart (high current like any digital pedal) How about the noise when connecter to sensitive analog pedals? Finally isn't the "EAE stompmix4 + QSC CP8 / K8 + Beaudens/stronger power supply" combo the best busker rig?
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I have the Zoom Livetrack L-8. Less features than the Elite and larger but it has 6 XLR inputs and recording to SD Card. I’ll have to review that soon.
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