Mixing Flask

129,50 excl. VAT

Mixing Flask is a soft-limiting utility mixer, with up to +6dB of boost per channel, and tons of indicator lights.

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Description

The Threetom Modular “Mixing Flask” is a utility mixer offering mix-bus limiting and a cornucopia of indicator lights integrated behind a unique chemical lab-inspired front panel. 

I designed Mixing Flask as a solution to my main three gripes with conventional utility mixers:

  • Mixing too hot is too easy, leading to hard clipping on the mix-bus. And even when there’s an indicator light to warn you when this is happening, there are no features to actively prevent it.
  • Utility mixers usually only offer unity gain, so when you have a weak input signal (like a MTM Radio Music), you’re out of luck
  • They’re nauseatingly boring

MIXING FLASK provides solutions to these annoyances in the following ways:

  • I’ve implemented a soft-clipping limiting circuit on the mix-bus (inspired by DOPPIO). The highest setting prevents the mix-bus from hard clipping altogether in favor of warm saturation.
  • All inputs have a gain of +6dB allowing you to better equalize between volumes while maintaining a hot mix-bus output
  • The myriad of indicator lights and front-panel graphics make you feel like a mad scientist in your modular chemical lab. I bet you won’t find another utility mixer that makes mixing more exciting than Mixing Flask!

Features

  • Three different flavors of saturation on the mix output (hard clipping, soft/hard clipping, or soft-limiting)
  • Three inputs with up to +6dB of gain, and bipolar monitor lights
  • One mix output with three-stage bipolar monitor lights (signal present, signal nominal, hard-clipping warning)
  • Backlit chemical-lab-inspired front-panel graphics

Use cases:

  • Mix oscillator waveforms without the risk of hard-clipping
  • Mix CV signals while keeping an eye on what’s coming in and going out
  • Give a gentle boost to weak input signals (e.g. from a sampler module)
  • Have a utility mixer in your case that’s interesting to look at, and doesn’t bore you to death!

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Specifications

  • Construction
    • 4 HP wide
    • 36 mm deep (skiff friendly)
    • High-quality aluminum knobs with grippy surface
    • 2 mm thick glossy black front panel with translucent graphics and metallic print
  • Power consumption
    • +12V : 36 mA max
    • -12V : 36 mA max
    • Reverse power protection

Additional information

Weight 0,15 g

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