Has ne1 of the mpc dv8's on here tried this? - Hmmmmmm

I was sitting down watching tv last night, reading up on cirucit bending, which is the new thing that I wanna try and mess with, basically to turn some of the older keyboards and gear I have into something useful when I happened onto an idea,
I have an old  3channel numark crap mixer, and I figured I could do the cirucit bending with it. (it would actually be easy since it already has pots and swithces, I'd just need to re-route them) I wanted to do it like this (its a 3 channel mixer) run channel 1 into channel 2 into channel 3 for 3 sepearate passes at bending the sound, then run sounds into it, with rca's and basically make the crap numark into a curcuit bend efx unit, basically creating distortion and the wierd curcuit bend sounds, only able to do so on an unlimited range of sounds, not just a speak and spell or a tiny keyboard.
I bet the Curcuit bent efx would sound mad uniqe, and after some compression would be cool, what I want to know is, (from someone who knows a little more then me about this) how easy would it be to do on a mixer, I fugire it would be easeier then anyhting else since there is no need to drill and add swithces and pots, cuz it already has them on it, Id just need to rereoute them, its been my xperience the hard part on bending is running the rotary-pots and the switches to control the sound, and attaching them to the unit, ne hooooo I'm gonna give it a shot, and I'll let peeps know, basically I hope to end up with a one of a kind, unique custom wired efx unit that'll do distortion and will also, curicut bend sounds, whaddyall think, am I wasting time I could be banging on my MPC?[/color]

can you tell me a little more about circuit bending? english is not my native language and couldn't find the word in a dictionary. what can you do with a sound in three mixer channels you can't do with one alone? you have three eq's instead of one, but is there any other benefit of circuit bending? or do i just get the wrong end of the stick?

florian[/color]

http://www.oddmusic.com/illogic/

This is a nice resource, I hope it helps. I have friends that have done this and have had mixed results using keyboards. Never tried on a mixer. My only advice would be to experiment on a cheap keyboard you dont care about.[/color]

The small cheap mixer would be pretty hard.  Every electrical component in a small mixer is typically surface mounted items and crowded too close together on a single circuit board.  You can open it up and check.  The other problem with the DJ mixer is that there are no separate busses.  Yuo would need to create a least two more separate internal busses from the mains so you don't get feedback.

Why not just buy a small mixer with some aux sends/returns or direct outs.  In channel 1, aux or direct out to channel 2, aux or direct out to channel 3 then on to mains.   Don't send first two channels to main to avoid feedback.


Korg KMX series or the Kawai mixer come to mind as being cheap and have aux's,[/color]

I did some modifications on a cheap dj-mixer once. I converted it to have 3 crossfaders instead of one (a separate crossfader for every frequency band, like a redsound Invader mixer!)
You almost need a microscope to do some of the stuff, but it can be done. Just give it a try, that's the best way to find out:)[/color]