Musicians and DJs, do you ever feel that your mixer is a little too loud? You need to be able to make mixes as soon as inspiration hits, even if you’re not in the studio? , Teenage Engineering is certainly expensive, but they offer a beautiful, petite and elegant solution.
Teenage Engineering’s new rechargeable battery powered TX-6 looks as elegant as it is functional. This device is a 6-channel stereo mixer with 12-channel mono options, housed in a beautiful CNC machined aluminum chassis that offers a lot of features. These features include equalizers, filters, compressors, aux sends, cues, and additional digital effects. Not only does it come with these features, but you can customize the entire surface of the device and every knob and slider to take advantage of almost all of these features. Even with 8 hours of battery life, you can do all this.
Teenage Engineering TX-6 inputs and outputs
The TX6’s audio interface options are surprisingly extensive. The device supports USB-C input, allowing you to connect devices that support USB output, such as certain types of instruments and microphones.It also comes with an onboard tuner, which is very convenient.TX- The 6 also comes with nine 3.5mm audio jacks, six of which are inputs. One jack is the main line output, auxiliary output and cue output for the entire mix. This gives you even more control over your mix’s outputs and inputs.
How do you know what you’re doing on the TX-6 when you’re using it? Simple, except where the knobs and sliders are located in the top right has a nifty little monochrome OLED display with a whopping 91 different visual outputs. These visual outputs include items as simple as audio signals or audio outputs running system settings. . The display also supports more complex options such as waveform display, EQ display and display of 4 supported drum machine sound systems. Teenage Engineering also offers a nifty guide on how to use the mixer correctly.
Part of the visuals of the OLED display
Of course, there are other small form factor mixers on the market, but none of this scale, especially in this style. You’ll be hard-pressed to find one with a similar feature set in this petite form factor, but as I mentioned earlier, the Teenage Engineering TX6 definitely cuts a hole in his wallet with its $1,200 price tag. . However, that seems to be the price you pay for style and functionality.
