Nord Mixer

[CountFosco]

Just to share. I was using a Rolls PM351. Works great for my purpose, but needed extra functionality and used the mic input to hear my click send, and that was noisy because it is not designed for a line-level input.

My input needs:
- Stereo Keys 1 (Nord Stage 3)
- Stereo Keys 2 (Nord Wave 2)
- Mono Backing Track (from iPad left)
- Mono Click Track (from iPad Right)
- Stereo Aux mix from Main Desk with my own mix from rest of the band

Output:
- Stereo output to Main desk (Containing mix of keys + Backing track)
- mono Click to Main desk (contraining click only)
- Headphone (Mix of keys, aux-mix, click track)

I found this cheap mixer from Aliexpress:


With two of those I could make everything as i want it and put everything in a case with exact the wiring I want inside. Painted it Nord-red.
Nice Corona project....
Works great!

I've added an extra input.

The top 4 knobs control the main output mix:
- External input
- Backing track volume
- keys1 volume
- keys 2 volume

The bottom 4 knobs control the headphone mix:
- Main output mix (Keys)
- Mix from Aux
- Click track level

[maxpiano]

Cool!

[CountFosco]

Nice one. That's a good idea for mounting location too, how's it attached?

[Eriknie]

Nice one. That's a good idea for mounting location too, how's it attached?

I used velcro tape. See images below

[maxpiano]

Interesting, I though you may also make the support C shaped so that it would take advantage also of the inner part of the Nord wooden side (?)

[Eriknie]

Interesting, I though you may also make the support C shaped so that it would take advantage also of the inner part of the Nord wooden side (?)

Initially I had similar thoughts, but I attached the Rolls PM351 for 5 years this way on my Kurzweil Forte 7 and short time on my new Nord Stage 3 and the Velcro is very strong in horizontal movement.

[CountFosco]

My keyboards all have historical bits of velcro tape on them from attaching various effects pedals, vocoder, headphone mixers etc. I guess I should pull them off, but I stopped seeing them ages ago. It will be a good experiment one day to see how the Nord red fades over time with exposure to atmosphere.

[alex78]

Very cool and very practical to have everything at your side. Excellent finishing as well!

[Tasten-Bert]

This is a great idea! I‘ve never contemplated putting my mini mixer there. Thanks for this inspiration.

[florence]

Awesome very smart!