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Are Rotary Mixers Better?
Are rotary mixers always ‘better’ by default? Or has the cult of the rotary created a monster? Declan McGlynn investigates
Soon, the need for faster mixing, cuts and tricks, as well as increased affordability and portability, led to fader mixers and integrated circuits replacing the discrete-designed rotaries, with brands like Gemini, Vestax and Technics all releasing landmark units throughout the ’90s. “People say analogue sounds rich and warm and it’s basically because you’re adding tiny levels of distortion, which is why with the [Union Audio DJ mixer] Orbit, we introduced a valve stage,” explains Andy Rigby-Jones. The result was AlphaTheta’s euphonia, released earlier this year, it’s a digital-analogue four-channel hybrid that combines a transformer from audio royalty Rupert Neve — which provides that analogue saturation mentioned above — with modern digital FX.
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