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New portable digital mixers from Edirol
« on: March 10, 2007, 07:15:06 PM »
Dang...kewl...battery operation - plug in power...optical and coax outs

http://www.edirol.net/products/en/M-10MX/
http://www.edirol.net/products/en/M-10MX/specs.html



This looks really nice also - and 9V DC powered to boot!
http://www.edirol.net/products/en/M-10DX/specs.html


« Last Edit: March 11, 2007, 11:16:42 AM by Roving Sign »

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Re: New portable digital mixers from Edirol
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2007, 05:37:47 PM »
Cool. might be just the thing my buddy is looking for.
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Re: New portable digital mixers from Edirol
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2008, 10:29:35 PM »
Dang...kewl...battery operation - plug in power...optical and coax outs

http://www.edirol.net/products/en/M-10MX/
http://www.edirol.net/products/en/M-10MX/specs.html

It seems that B&H are dumping these for just $89:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/480537-REG/Edirol_Roland_M_10MX_M_10MX_10_Channel_Battery.html

For the small footprint, this is way cheap for a batttery powered A/D with plenty of channels!
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Re: New portable digital mixers from Edirol
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2008, 07:28:04 PM »
I wonder how moddable the M-10MX is. ;D  I kinda want one to mess with but I'm not sure.  I wonder if I could strip it down, add a preamp and make it into a 2ch pre+ad converter.
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Re: New portable digital mixers from Edirol
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2008, 08:06:26 AM »
The specs show that the M-10MX doesn't even have 16 bits of actual dynamic range despite being a "24-bit" product. "24-bit" designations of this kind are like, if you're assigned a 24-page term paper in school and you hand in a paper with 10 blank pages, and you claim (or even fool yourself into actually believing) that you've met the requirements. Well, yeah, there are 24 pieces of paper there ... plus the staple should get you extra credit, no?

The unit also lacks any level monitoring--which would be quite important since its available dynamic range is so limited by modern standards, and since its inputs are configured for consumer-type devices rather than the professional condenser microphones that most people here use. The signals coming in would frquently be at (and sometimes over) the edge of what the circuitry was built to handle.

The M-10DX has inputs which are configured more suitably for live recording, but frequency response specs of +/- 3 dB are a clear sign of an extreme bottom-end approach to audio equipment manufacture. "We'll dress it up with color and beat everyone else on price; most people will never hear the difference--we hope."

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Re: New portable digital mixers from Edirol
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2008, 02:53:37 PM »
yeah, I know, I saw the specs and something that cheap can be of any quality.  :sick:  I might bite the bullet and see if I could improve it at all.  I don't want to blow $100 on a piece of crap though.
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