The Chandler Limited Mini Mixer is the culmination of Chandlers experience working with many types of vintage, discrete circuits. The Mini Rack Mixer traces its lineage back to several types of these amplifiers developed in the 60's and 70's that have been Chandlerized for modern usage. Each Channel of the 16x2 Mixer is transformer balanced and driven by the New Chandler Line Amp, which borrows from Chandlers other products but has been redesigned for use in this mixer. The Mini Mixer is jam packed with discrete amps and classic sound, 20 discrete amplifiers and 22 custom wound transformers in the unit, and delivering all the punch and tone you need for todays digital environment. In addition to the mixer section, the unit has a full featured Control Room section including Talkback, Speaker switching, Mute, Mono, Dim, External input (also used as an insert point), and separate Control Room and Stereo Buss outs.
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"My first impression was that the difference that the Mini Rack Mixer makes is bigger than the difference mastering makes... The Chandler Mini Rack Mixer will inevitably get compared to all the new summing boxes, but because of its 100% discrete design, Class-A line amps, transformer balanced I/O-and resulting sound quality-it has no real competition short of a vintage Neve console." Mike Caffrey, Tape Op #49 Sept/Oct 2005
"We weren't necessarily in the market for another mixer, but we've learned that it's definitely worthwhile to check out anything Chandler is coming out with! It's such a well thought out and designed unit and like everything Chandler makes, it sounds awesome. It seems everything sounds better when run through the Chandler line amps! It's incredibly versatile and useful as a sidecar, line mixer or summing device plus it's great to have as the control section for a Pro Tools room." - Billy Bush, engineer for Garbage and Butch Vig
"...gotta say it does sound amazing. It is a beautiful piece of gear........and made a huge difference as soon as I was able to split out multiple tracks and recombine thru a proper stereo buss....it sounded warm and really fat...it made my speakers come alive! my mix sounded clearer and the vocal had especially nice detail...........Also, it's very easy to use...." - Joe Barresi
I am absolutely stunned by your mixer. It may be sacrilegious to say, but the Chandler has become my preferred choice in virtually every instance that I have would normally desired a vintage Neve console (in fact, I ditched the one I previously had). This makes absolutely no sense to me, hence I would suggest that you have made some sort of pact with Satan to fabricate such a thing. Heaven help you, but thanks all the same for creating such a remarkable recording device. - Michael Beinhorn
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"I was skeptical at first, but best believe there is some kinda magic in this box....Can you say independent transformers on every channel? Even running an already mixed song through 2 channels makes the mix bloom..It's dynamic but sticky at the same time, makes your mixes sound effortless." Jeremy Harding
Jeremy Harding is an engineer, producer, musician, DJ and manager whose 2 Hard recording studio (and label of the same name) has a prominent hold on the music scene in his native Kingston, Jamaica. Learn more about Jeremy and his favorite gear in our Producers Corner.
