Audio Distribution and D.I. Boxes.

[EvanExempt]

I'm going to start this thread with a rather silly question:

If you send signal into the output of a multi-track analog mixer, ie. Peavey PV6. Will it send a copy of the signal to each of the channels (the sound would be coming out of the inputs)?
I don't know are there any technical drawbacks to doing this?


Basically, I'm aggravated that there is not more small scale audio distribution equipment available... so why not just run signal backward through a mixer?


I did find this Product:
Whirlwind Split 6

But does any one know if there a more discreet method. Many D.I. boxes can split two ways.

Does anyone have any insight or helpful product knowledge for affordable, vesatile signal routing?

I'm prolly going to have to build a patch bay.

[Nubus]

no don't try that. you will cause a paradox which will rip the very fabrics of space and time, destroying the universe as we know it!

[puffpastry]

Will it send a copy of the signal to each of the channels (the sound would be coming out of the inputs)?

As a first-order approximation your assumption is correct, but unfortunately this won't give you any results. In a rough sense, mixers perform the opposite of what you need--they take multiple inputs and sum them, and you need something to take one input and split it.

[EvanExempt]

Originally Posted by Nubus

no don't try that. you will cause a paradox which will rip the very fabrics of space and time, destroying the universe as we know it!

I knew there was a catch!

[EvanExempt]

Originally Posted by puffpastry

As a first-order approximation your assumption is correct, but unfortunately this won't give you any results. In a rough sense, mixers perform the opposite of what you need--they take multiple inputs and sum them, and you need something to take one input and split it.

I think "first-order approximations" are my specialty.