DOD 240 Resistance Mixer: anyone used this?

[Cliff Kane]

Just curious if anyone has used this little stompbox size mixer. I'm in the process of reconfiguring my pedalboard, and something like this will be handy, but I don't want to degrade my tone if it's not good.

Thanks,
Cliff

[D Schubert]

It will eat up a lot of signal.

[Cliff Kane]

Thanks for your reply,
yes, that is what I'm concerned about. Voodoo Lab makes a similar box called an Amp Selector that has buffers and switches for the four sends, but it's pricey. This DOD mixer is priced low, but what's the point if it's going to hurt the sound. I wonder if I run a buffered volume pedal or a Freeloader if that would make it sound okay?

[Jerry Overstreet]

Revived from old thread
I have one of these. Can I use this safely to attenuate a PA monitor volume? I have a situation where the monitor is killing me at the jams where I sit. It's attached to the wall just above ear level so I can't move it, and don't really have any space to move myself and gear.

I can unplug the thing, but then I don't get quite enough of the vocal from the mains.

What say you?

[D Schubert]

Old school and non-electronic solution: Put a towel or a t-shirt over part or all of the monitor cabinet

[Jerry Overstreet]

Revived from old thread
I have one of these. Can I use this safely to attenuate a PA monitor volume? I have a situation where the monitor is killing me at the jams where I sit. It's attached to the wall just above ear level so I can't move it, and don't really have any space to move myself and gear.

I can unplug the thing, but then I don't get quite enough of the vocal from the mains.

What say you?

Does anybody have any thoughts on this application?

[Stew Crookes]

I'm not an electronics expert Jerry, but I wouldn't recommend using it this way based on what I do know - it's not at all designed for that level of output.
Devices that are used to dissipate excess power (typically used for tube amps) use heat to get rid of the unwanted energy and this has no facility for that.

Where it might work is if you can put it in between the mixer and the monitor's amp - that way you're attenuating the line level signal instead of trying to attenuate the much more powerful speaker level signal.

The suggestion of covering it with a towel or something was a good one - many of us are very hesitant to solve 'audio' problems mechanically but it can be very effective.
Years ago I was playing a gig with a drummer who didn't use a front head on their kick drum. The sound tech was losing his mind trying everything possible to gate and eq the kick drum beater 'smack' sound out of the quiet singer's vocal mic that was picking it up very loudly.
It was winter in Canada so I hung my heavy parka over the open front of the drum - problem solved

[Jerry Overstreet]

Thanks for your response Stew.

There is already a rheostat or other device in front of the monitor mix. It's just a cheap RS device and I'm quite sure is doesn't dissipate any heat.

Also, besides attenuating the sound there affects everybody else' feed which wouldn't be acceptable to them. The monitor where I sit is at the end of the chain and there's just no room to move away from it.

The system is wired in separate daisy chain configs in both the mains feed and the monitor feed.

Yeah, I know about blanketing speakers etc., but It would be extremely difficult to cover it up the way it is mounted into the wall and I wouldn't wanna do that anyway.

[Dave Mudgett]

I wound up with one of these from salvage. You could use a device like this to attenuate the input to the monitor amp. But I would not even think about using it to attenuate the signal coming out of the monitor amp into the monitor speaker. There are no power resistors in there.

These are designed to mix instrument-level or perhaps line-level signals. I imagine there are user manuals out there for these.

[Jim Robertson]

I use one of these frequently. I play electric fiddle, lead guitar, and lap steel in a band. I don’t want to drag around three amps and there’s not enough room on the mixer. It works for my purposes. Getting the tone dialed in for three different instruments on one amp is a compromise, but so much in life is! You guys know lots more than I do about electronics. The DOD goes between the instruments and the amp. The amp is basically my stage monitor.

Good luck and have fun!