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Product information "North Coast Synthesis - MSK 011 Transistor Mixer"
The MSK 011 is a transistor-based 4-channel mixer with great sound from North Coast Synthesis.
North Coast brings new glory to the Eurorack genre of 4-channel mixers with this minimalist design using only six transistors. The MSK 011 sounds great! Where a conventional mixer would normally require at least five op-amp units, each with a dozen or more transistors, North Coast has stripped the blend down to its bare essentials. It is a proprietary design, made with current components and modern manufacturing quality. Its Class A amplifiers, however, operate on principles dating back to the dawn of electronic signal processing.
The mixer is suitable for both audio and control voltages and has additional features that do not compromise the minimalist philosophy. There are positive and negative offsets and simultaneous DC and AC coupled outputs. The maximum gain is a little over a factor of one for when you need a little extra punch. It can also act as a transistor distortion effect by offsetting the signal until clipping and then using the AC-coupled output.
Features:
High-quality potentiometers
Plate-mounted jacks for wobble-free operation; conductive plastic for a smooth feel
Completely new design, not a clone or imitation of anything else
Classic discrete transistor design style
No ICs
No compromise on build quality: real aluminum plate, not PCB material, with color printing; nickel and gold plating on PCB; film output coupling capacitor; close tolerance metal film fixed resistors.
Fully open design - no lock-in
External videos:
HE:
3
TE:
6
Depth:
34
Power consumption +12V:
9
Power consumption -12V:
14
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Behind North Coast Synthesis Ltd. is Matthew Skala, who got into hobby electronics as early as the 1980s. Matthew studied later computer science, earning a PhD at University of Waterloo and spent about 15 years in academic research and teaching at universities in Canada and Denmark. In 2017, he abandoned academia and established North Coast Synthesis in Toronto. His Leap Frog VCF provides the steepest filter slope possible: 61 dB/octave!
