07 Mixers The mixer is where all the elements of the studio combine together.
Each instrument is assigned its own channel on the mixer.
A channel is the physical input, plus a series of controls for fine tuning the sound.
As with most home studio gear, it's a buyer's market and you can get something basic for a couple of hundred quid.
If you're using a computer you may be able to mix all of your audio internally and not need a hardware mixer at all.
Chances are though, if you're serious about home recording and you want to save on processing power, you'll end up needing one sooner or later.
When you first look at a mixer it can just look like hundreds of buttons, knobs and faders! But scope it out and you'll see that most of the knobs do the same thing.
Any horizontal row of knobs will all have the same labels.
And any vertical row - or channel strip - will have one of each type of knob. In order to describe what they all do, we'll walk through the path that the signal takes through the mixer.
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