(left) Martin Warr, Managing Director of Synthax Audio UK and (right) Christian Glück, Product Manager at myMix
Synthax Audio have been appointed exclusive UK distributors for the network audio monitoring specialists, myMix. Responsibility for sales, marketing and support of myMix products has been assumed by the London Colney based company from May 1st 2014.
Synthax Audio are already well known for their experience with high-end audio solutions in the studio, live and broadcast markets, so myMix is a “good fit”.
“We are very impressed by myMix; there are real advantages offered by this range of products that you simply do not find with other monitoring solutions” explained Dave West, Synthax Audio Marketing Manager. “With all the new additions to the system, myMix goes far beyond simple personal monitoring, and into all kinds of professional applications. myMix are clearly a forward thinking, high quality and professional brand that we are very excited to be working with.”
myMix is an incredibly versatile, decentralized and therefore expandable monitoring and recording network system, but unlike most other systems myMix requires no central distribution hub.
Each myMix mixer is a self-contained unit with network inputs and outputs. By simply connecting the mixers together, you are able to share, mix and record all of the signals at your station (fully uncompressed at 24-bit, 48kHz quality) chosen from the total configured network, all with impressive latency times. You can name your mixer, and all the channels within it, which will appear automatically on all of the other units on your network.
A myMix device can be used on its own (for 2-ch recording or play along to multitrack sessions you captured at a rehearsal earlier) or two can be connected directly for a 4 channel system. By adding an Ethernet switch, you can connect between 3 or as many as 250 devices, giving you up to 500 audio channels. myMix mixers accept power over Ethernet (POE), which means they need only one Cat5 wire to work – ideal in older buildings with less distributed power.
Additional line level inputs can be added to the network by the IEX-16L 1U input expander, available as analogue only on DB25, or analogue and ADAT (the myMix IEX-16L-A) for digital connection to most mixing consoles. A sound engineer can then feed more channels, or submixes onto the network which the individual myMixes will have access to.
Each myMix can create a stereo mix which can then be output to your headphones or in/ears, monitors or transmitters for wireless IEMs. The stereo mix can also be sent back to the network, so other myMix devices can select it as a stereo source; either to listen to other mixes, or create submixes within a myMix network. The high quality physical inputs are for microphone or line level source, and phantom power is of course available.
For larger managed systems, add the new myMix Control option. This is a small box containing a server, masses of memory and a wireless access point. Connect myMix Control to your network switch, and then you can access a web browser based menu system from any computer, tablet, or even phone, which gives complete control over the complete system attached. You can save every setting, copy and paste settings and profiles from one hardware mixer to another, even create mixes remotely, and importantly lock or enable on a function by function basis every feature in the individual mixers. This allows complex systems including personal monitoring for the artistes, radio mic monitoring and main comms for tech crews to be created and work simultaneously.
Finally two new versions of the myMix mixer have been created. The myMix Install, which comes with a wall mount box and a beautiful glass front panel, for installations in lobbies and any environment where physical integration into the environment is important. And the RX-2, which is a full myMix mixer with all inputs and outputs, but in a plain black box. Three can be rackmounted into a 1U space. These act as audio gathering or audio feed boxes, which are only controllable over the network by myMix Control. Perfect for complex multi room installations.