I dont know where you are located but I’ve used these and they are perfect…not too tight, work great…used them for months now.
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These cables work great with the Bluebox.
Bluebox is my favorite portable mixer, one of my most useful hardware devices. Just picked up a second one as well. Thanks to 1010music for this brilliant device.
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“Hard to beat” is an understatement. If you want a mixer which has at least 12 inputs, 2 aux sends, a pretty good reverb and a delay usable at the same time with recording capabilities which isn’t the Bluebox, you’ll end up with a device wich is at least 10 times as big and heavy. I can only think of the digital stagebox style mixers by A&H, Soundcraft, Mackie, Behringer.
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Do you also have some videos of playing/using it/them together? Im curious how you use them during playtime.
No worries, I know all too well. Before finding Bluebox I couldn’t find a single one that could fit my space. You do trade off on the immediate always visible controls (WYSIWYG) but that extra space means everything to my needs.
Speaking of reverb… The onboard reverbs sounds like convolution reverb. If it is, I’d love to see them open it up importing IRs. Right now the only portable effect box I have (and think is worth owning for this) is Beebo.
I’m actually returning to the bluebox now to try out a few things. Recent experiments with workflow has made me realise how much I appreciate convenience, and I’m wondering if maybe the difference between a carefully crafted bluebox mix and my SSL gear, isn’t going to matter enough to warrant the workflow advantages of the bluebox.
But we’ll see.
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On top of its really convenient form factor, another advantage of the BlueBox is - IMHO - the fact that you can modulate parameters like volume, EQ, Reverb and what not, with an external modulation machine (e.g. MnM). This brings it to another dimension, more like an instrument in itself. And I don’t see that in so many (any?) other mixers.
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So that got out of hand quickly.
I did a mix on the bluebox which I quite enjoyed. Compared it to making it on the SiX only, and while the SiX has a certain range the bluebox can’t touch, in practice, the difference didn’t matter enough to warrant using the SiX instead of the bluebox.
So I then did the SiX mix through the Fusion as well, and that made a difference - but still, the bluebox did things to the mix that I enjoyed too much to let go, so my final run was the bluebox mix through the Fusion. Lovely result.
However, with the SiX just standing there now, I ran the Fusion result through the SiX pre-amps with the g-bus compressor active, as a final touch to the master mix.
Which I guess it comes as no surprise, gave the by far superior result. Since I have this stuff around, it made sense to use it like this, but if I had only the bluebox and not the other kits, I think I’d feel pretty good about the output anyway.
Having said that … since I do have these SSL kits and paid for them dearly with hard earned cash, I believe I’ve found a multi-track mixer workflow with the SSL stuff acting as the master output for final results.
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Hello. I had a general question about routing.
When not recording does the mixer send the inputs to the outputs/sends without any digital conversion?
My assumption was that audio does get converted to digital, but this is just a guess, due to the flexible changeable routing.
If this is true, then I wonder, how this would affect the sound quality. For example, if I was recording a live instrument through a master effect on a send, would the signal would get converted three times? Once on the way in, then on the send out, then on the return.
I hope I make sense? Finding it hard to explain 
It’s a digital mixer, so yes, all inputs are immediately converted, and then converted back out output, so yes, it will be digitized twice there.
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Any rumors of MultiTrack recording over USB with the BlueBox now that the TE tx-6 has a bit of the spotlight with musicians?
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Bluebox needs 1.2A (not supported by regular USB ports) and doesn’t have the circuitry necessary for USB data over main port, so you can forget about it. They clarified this in their forums.
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Of course it has ADC in inputs and DAC on outputs. Think it’s not possible to make this all analog in such a small device.
But the sound is suprisingly good. Really good. Precise without coloration.
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I figured as much. Thanks for the specifics.
I got the Bluebox last week, so far I’m really liking it… I have mine handling 4-6 stereo devices (A4, AR, DN, TR8S at present) and I’m running it into a stereo channel on my Model 12, which handles mics/mono sources and brings in my Ableton stereo mix.
Basic newb questions:
It seems there’s no way to bypass the track EQ on the Bluebox? Do I have that right?
Is there a shortcut to the Compressor On/Off? Can this be done via a midi CC?
Working on a new setup idea. Can anyone confirm that the track EQ’s and their band controls are all midi mappable?
I use this one for the Bluebox & Blackbox and really like the footprint and stability. The guy has different angles offered, they are 3D printed and worth the money imo:
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Is anyone using this desktop patchbay DF Audio Minibay or this Midi controller 16n AtoVproject Rework with the Bluebox?