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am I missing something, or is that a giant paddle power switch that can/will be accidentally pushed downward to off while working? edit: nope, that's exactly what that is. $1,200 for a mixer you can't use live without duct taping it, I guess. https://teenage.engineering/guides/tx-6#power-on
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yes, but you can use non-adjascent ports with standard 3.5mm audio cables - if you are that bothered, assume it's a 3 channel board with an option to upgrade to 6 if you buy the special cables.
Did you just “You’re holding it wrong” me? :) They could have brilliantly designed their way out of that by making the whole thing ~1.5cm wider (3mm extra five times). A zoom h6 is a well designed portable battery powered mixer / audio interface with 4 easily accessible inputs and two that might need an adaptor depending on your cabling. It also comes with two high quality microphones, and records without being tethe…
I like intech.studio'a approach better
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yes, but you can use non-adjascent ports with standard 3.5mm audio cables - if you are that bothered, assume it's a 3 channel board with an option to upgrade to 6 if you buy the special cables.
3 channels for the price of 6 is still a terrible deal.
What bothers me is that I would absolutely buy this if it was bigger and had 1/4" balanced or stereo TRRS inputs, I actually have a variety of input sources in my home office that gets dual use for work, gaming, and music. But to use this I would need to go XLR to 3.5mm (and no phantom power?) for my voice and amp mics, main out to a Y split 1/4 TRS for speakers, and 1/4" to 3.5mm for a synth. So my desk would be lit…
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Prosumer audio gadgets are a relatively small market, audio interfaces are a slice of that. Audio interfaces that function as mixers are even smaller. There's been a boon with stream decks the last few years, but the only part of that market that's saturated is the low end. There really are not that many high quality mixers and audio interfaces out there, and they are not really in a small form factor like this. Not…
I think you might be underestimating the size of the market for audio interfaces and mixers - but that’s just a feeling mostly based on how many of them are on craigslist at any given moment in my city. But either way you can’t deny they’re choosing to go high end. They could have scaled down the software features of this by 10-20%, put it in a less “jony ive” case and sold it for $300-600 - but then they would’ve ha…
Over the last decade there was a growth in new products, but there's a lot of crap. There was also a lot of consolidation and acquisition because audio hardware manufacturing is such an expensive thing to do for a small market, particularly on the high end.
I absolutely love their design language. I'll never have a need to own any of their products but I wish I could buy the gadgets I do need/want with this kind of design/style.
my biggest axe to grind with this company is the outrageous pricetag for everything they sell. With $100 bags, $700 mini boom boxes, and $15 patches You may as well call it Affluent Engineering.