Many do ask whether analog summing is better than digital summing. But perhaps the real question is whether digital summing is better than analog summing? We at SPL don‘t know of anyone who says so. We do know that summing with the MixDreamXP creates an amazing signal depth, precise localization and a wonderful stereo imaging. Moreover, the addition of individual instruments results in soft and pleasant transitions. 
These are analog summing results that we appreciate from past decades of the best analog technology. The MixDreamXP now allows DAW users to exploit this potential with maximum comfort and uncompromising quality, ensuring that nothing can stand in the way of the engineer‘s having the best of both analog and digital worlds.

Tracks destined for analog summing are routed from the DAW to the MixDreamXP via A/D converters. Identical converters are ideal to exclude level and sound differences. 
Although you may often wish to sum more than 16 tracks, a general recommendation to reduce track numbers is to route those tracks to a common output bus of the sequencing program which are not played back simultaneously in your arrangement. This way you avoid digital summing and your production benefits from the full potential of 100% analog summing. 
With mono signals one should switch these to mono mode to confine them to single D/A converter, thereby avoiding the waste of having to use a D/A pair for one mono track. In the DAW such signals must be panned hard left or right.

To reduce track numbers, there are two other options besides the above mentioned „Summing“ tip: Well, you could buy additional MixDreamXP (which we confess would make us happy—and we‘re sure would not disappoint you) or sum your grouped tracks with the MixDreamXP itself. 
For example, if you‘ve done a chorus backup in 16 solo tracks, you can adjust your panning in the DAW and the MixDreamXP sums a stereo mix which is recorded again—the sound benefits of analog summing are larger than the disadvantage of a further A/D-D/A conversion.

Your MixDreamXP is predestined for mastering applications, as we‘ve planned its superior sound quality for just such occasions. 
Two applications are especially interesting: discrete Mastering, and upsampling to SACD/DVD-A formats. Normally a studio mastering engineer requires that a stereo file be made available for his or her work. But in such a mixdown, any problems (for example, significant variations in volume among instrumental subgroups) will mean equally significant limitations to your final mastering options. Instead, however, if one masters from a discrete mix with single tracks or subgroups, each of these can be adjusted just as easily and quickly in the mastering process—to the extent that even individual groups can be tweaked with different processing. Your final result is clearly better and the time needed, minimal—especially since it is less likely that a new mix will be called for.

Tehnička specifikacija

Ulazi

Input Impedance: 10kOhm
Max. Input Level: +28dBu

Izlazi

Output Impedance: 65Ohm
Max. Output Level: +28dBu (@ 1kHz, THD+N -95dB)

Mjerenja

Frequency range: ‹1Hz-200kHz (-1 dB)
THD+N: -103dBu (20-22kHz, Input Level +10dBu)
Noise Level: -97dBu (20-22kHz, A-weighted)
Dynamic range: 125dB (20-22kHz, A-weighted)
Crosstalk L-R: -90dB (@ 1kHz, Input Level +10dBu)
CMRR: ‹70dB (@ 1kHz, Input Level +10dBu)

Napajanje

Toroidal transformer
Voltage selector: 230V/115V
Ground-Lift switch
Power Consumption: 36W

Dimenzije i težina:

Standard EIA 19 inch Housing, 1U
W x H x D: 482 x 44 x 237mm/19 x 1.76 x 9.5 inch
Weight: 3.55kg/7.81 lbs