Heritage Audio Mix Buddy - Instrument Mixer with Mic Preamp

Heritage Audio Mix Buddy - Instrument Mixer with Mic Preamp

Mixing instruments both live and in the studio has always been a subpar process. Most mixers are built around mic and line inputs with generic front ends that do decent at best with electronic instruments and frankly unacceptable with organic sources. The result is always the same: DI boxes, workarounds and tone you never quite get back.

The MIX BUDDY comes to solve all these problems while adding an additional set of features that turn this little box into a monster.

With no-compromise tone as the main design rule, the MIX BUDDY has a staggering arsenal of no less than 19 inputs, which are themselves a masterclass of extremely low noise, high class audiophile grade JFET technology. Heavily based on the highly acclaimed Toshiba 2SK JFET series, Mix Buddy marks a new milestone in instrument amplification technology. Every single input was designed around one rule: the tone comes first. The MIX BUDDY doesn’t raise the bar in instrument amplification technology. It redraws it entirely.

Heritage Audio Mix Buddy Specifications

• A whopping 19 input x 8 output instrument-centric desktop mixer with a never-before-heard clarity for instrument level sources.
• 4 stereo (or 4 mono + THRU) HI GAIN channels powered by Toshiba 2SK JFET 12dB gain buffers.
• 3 stereo (or 3 mono + THRU) UNITY channels powered by Toshiba 2SK JFET unity gain buffers.
• Volume control, stereo / mono + THRU switch and mute per channel.
• Dedicated microphone preamp with JFET input stage, up to 70dB of gain, dedicated gain and level controls and phantom power.
• Additional stereo balanced line level input stage.
• 2 independent balanced master outputs with dedicated ground lift.
• Master Main Out goes through the built-in Heritage Audio 73 DI 2 active DI, and it is switchable between line level and mic level output.
• Main Out 2 is a clean transformerless output.
• Stereo or mono AUX effects loop for hardware effects integration.
• Powerful independent headphone amp with volume control.
• AUX send knob per channel with pre/post fader switching.
• Global FX on/off switch for instant wet/dry comparison.
• Mic preamp input compatible with guitar pedal effects chains via AUX loop.
• Elegant desktop design.
• Built like a tank.