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Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by TheRealPomax »

boomlinde wrote: post #340
TheRealPomax wrote: post #339

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay but if you don't have a lot of gear, this thing is well outside of your budget, several times over. You'd bring your cheap behringer, yamaha, mackie, etc. mixer instead. You're doing a performance, you packed for that. And if you can afford this thing, you're not going to do live mixing with it. You bring your flight case with all your performance kit instead.

> Okay but if you don't have a lot of gear, this thing is well outside of your budget That's a strange assumption. I have more money, therefore I need more gear to play music? > And if you can afford this thing, you're not going to do live mixing with it. You bring your flight case with all your performance kit instead. And that case doesn't contain a mixer? I don't see how using this live and bringing your setup in…

Don't reverse an argument and expect it to still hold up, because it doesn't. It's the other way around: if you don't have lots of money, you don't have this kind of "toy" gear (because this is a --super cool, wish I had a use-case for it-- "because I can" piece of kit). You first buy the stuff you (or your band) actually needs. Including a decent mixer that doesn't break the bank. There are lots of perfectly decent And if you are a professional (EDM or otherwise) musician and you have regular gigs, you probably already spent some money on a better-than-$400 mixer and you're still not going to use this device because you have more a reliable TRS+XLR mixer for your live gigs.

This device is just for "toss in a backback, and have fun" (either alone on the go, or hanging out with other musician friends). Unfortunately, and necessarily, very expensive fun.

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by boomlinde »

TheRealPomax wrote: post #341
boomlinde wrote: post #340

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Okay but if you don't have a lot of gear, this thing is well outside of your budget That's a strange assumption. I have more money, therefore I need more gear to play music? > And if you can afford this thing, you're not going to do live mixing with it. You bring your flight case with all your performance kit instead. And that case doesn't contain a mixer? I don't see how using this live and bringing your setup in…

Don't reverse an argument and expect it to still hold up, because it doesn't. It's the other way around: if you don't have lots of money, you don't have this kind of "toy" gear (because this is a --super cool, wish I had a use-case for it-- "because I can" piece of kit). You first buy the stuff you (or your band) actually needs. Including a decent mixer that doesn't break the bank. There are lots of perfectly decent…

> It's the other way around: if you don't have lots of money, you don't have this kind of "toy" gear

Yes, but you suggested that if you don't have lots of gear, this is outside your budget. That is a different argument. That you can construct a new argument doesn't somehow invalidate my response to your previous argument.

Re: TX-6 – Teenage Engineering

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Post by ruined »

ruined wrote: post #22

if i wanted a simple mixer and usb audio interface with fx send and i didn't want to spend a thousand dollars on it, what's the range of alternatives i've spent under $150 on every individual item in my kit so far and it feels silly to blow past that on a mixer.

in the end, i bought a broken old Boss mixer under $100, to refurb.
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