Teenage Engineering’s latest audio device invites you to turn its knobs
, has released a new audio gadget: it’s called the TX-6, and it’s a tiny field mixer absolutely festooned with knobs. In addition to letting you mix together sound from six stereo inputs and output them to a computer, speaker, or both, in true Teenage Engineering fashion, the TX-6 can also act as a basicWe gotta talk about those knobs first though. By default they act as controls for a three-band equalizer, letting you tweak the highs, mids, and lows for each input.
reveals the tons of other things you can do with them, from controlling compressor settings to adjusting pan or note length. Whatever you use them for, you’ll be doing it inthe knobs are colorful and knurled at the top, which should help you grip something that’s otherwise approximately the size of a large Q-Tip.If you can tear your eyes away from the knobs, the rest of the controls are also absolutely mint.