Bastl Bestie

[Kattefjaes]

There's a thread about it in General Gear. but it bears repeating in here. Tiny battery/USB-C powered five channel stereo mixer with distortion available on each channel. and channel 3 normalled to feed the mix out back into the channel, for quick and dirty feedback on tap. It's absurdly fun, and tiny enough to take up virtually no space in a backpack or peli case.

https://bastl-instruments.com/instruments/bestie

For an idea of how it sounds, I put the kick and snare of an RD-6 through one, each on its own channel:



I think it's wildly fun for something so portable.

[Samatha Dubs]

The distortion is quite similar to the kind of stuff you can get with no-input mixing. It could probably be used for that as well. I would personally prefer a version with 1/4 inch connectors so I could use normal instrument cables, - even if the box had to be slightly bigger for it.

[Kattefjaes]

The distortion is quite similar to the kind of stuff you can get with no-input mixing. It could probably be used for that as well.

It's normalled to feed the output of the mixer back into the third channel- effectively convenient basic no-input/feedback mixing on tap. You can use that channel to add saturation, or if you push it harder, it goes into feedback self-oscillation.

[petezoid]

prefer a version with 1/4 inch connectors so I could use normal instrument cables

they've made pretty much every permutation of no-input mixers (eurorack modules, tabletop units) except for an old-school 1/4" mixer with inserts + sends ... maybe they don't want to compete with mackie or allen+heath?