Barry Smith

One audio mixer to rule them all

Tuesday, 29 March 2022

For a while I have been trying to find an elegant solution to using my home setup. I have a home office that I work from set up in my spare room.

In this room I have:

  1. My M1pro Macbook Pro - I work directly on this via an external 34 inch monitor. 
  2. My M1 Mac Mini - Daily driver, entertainment and content consumption. 
  3. My Gaming PC - Former Daily driver

I use the Logitech MX Keys keyboard to work with all the other devices. It contains 3 channel bluetooth so you can easily switch between the devices. I also use the Logitech MX Anywhere mouse that also uses 3 bluetooth channels that also allow for switching between devices. The one fly in my soup was sound. I have all these devices and I'm just constantly swapping cables or switching from one bluetooth headphone to another. 

The answerer? 

I started looking to find a way to get all my devices going through one set of headphones. I opted for a small headphone amplifier and all was well with the world. No really! This simple little USB powered by a dedicated USB micro cable & plug, this little box of wonder manages a total of 4 inputs in either stereo or mono input each with it's own volume level. I will be plugging in my guitar amplifier's line out to this later, but below is my current set up. 

Mixer Link: https://amzn.to/3iMijYd

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