Yes...I used the wendt x4 mixer to do this , and successfully, quite a bit. You have to really be aware of what is going on around you and have good ears to ride faders when needed. but yes..it is a very practical way of working.
FWIW, about 70% of all professional classical recording engineers work in this manner...mixing several sources down to 2 via a mixer(usually line level, sometimes mic level)..
thank you very much Teddy, your post makes me confident to try this out.
But I do not understand yet how to mix two stereo Mics into one stereo signal. I do not have any experience with mixing nor do I know anybody I could watch doing it.
E.g. the circuit (
http://sound.westhost.com/project94.htm ) first has a buffer and it says, quote: A microphone preamp is a must if very low level signals are intended. The next stage is a socalled 'standard Baxandall feedback tone control' featuring bass and trebel controls
at the end comes the mixer which they call a 'common "virtual earth" mixing amplifier'.
I don't understand how the whole package really works and what I really need:
Do I need the buffer?
Do I really need the tone controls? - OK, I agree, better to have the tone controls, but I want to understand how the mixing itself works?
Could the mixer alone be sufficient. But how does it work?
Looking at the mixer circuit all I see is that it simply combines the various right channels to just one right channel, and the various left to one left channel - it simply puts them together! and then goes into an opamp amplifying the signal and finally adds a pot to adjust the final output.
Well, if this is so, - simply adding the right and left channels after their tone adjustments, why do I need a mixer then at all??? Could I not simply go with my 2 stereo mics into an stereo preamp each, and then simply adding the two right channels and the two left channels into a new single right and left channel after I adjust their gain on the preamp?
Or is having the tone controls what enables an effective mixing?
The other two mixers I had linked seem to make more sense as every channel first has it's own level adjustment. The tone adjustments are after the channels have been added, only in the final mix which could be a disadvantage.
Hopefully my questions are not to dumb for you experienced guys, hopefully you can help me to understand and to decide how to proceed, resp. which circuit to build.
thank's a lot,
andreas