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Old 7th November 2011   #3
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Originally Posted by Geoff_T View Post
Hi

I think your description of "passive" is a little off.

In my book passive means lacking any active electronic circuitry so a passive mixer is just a bunch of resistors creating a voltage summing mix.

In summing there are two approaches :- the voltage summing traditionally used by vintage Neve consoles and virtual earth used by later Neve and most other manufacturers.

Neither of these are passive as the consoles use input amplifiers and bus and output amplifiers.

A passive mixer is a box full off resistors

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Looks like I was wrong about the chandler after looking at the site again. It's the Shadow hills equinox I was thinking about mostly but I swear I remembered thinking the chandler was passive and the dangerous 2 bus was too. After looking at their site I think I may have been wrong. A passive mixer just doesnt seem like as much fun.
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