Art Pro Audio SPLITMix 4 - Four Channel Passive Splitter/Mixer

Last peice in my musical Jigsaw.I wanted to create big fat Pad, atmospheric, soundscapes. I want my Korg Kronos and Waldorf Blofeld to play simultaniously so I midi them together. I also wanted to route them both through my Eventide Space, so what did I do.I bought this little gem.The Kronos and Blofeld plug in the back. I then output them into the Eventide, I output from there into my Tascam digital recorder.So I know get both keyboards playing big fat Pad sounds together, through my Eventide Space effects box.The Art Split 4 is very well built, small and simple and opens up many possibilities, for very little money.Bought mine through Amazon ans Absolute Music. Recommended.

i previously had a laptop/pc/ipad/fire stick (through 2nd monitor) outputs all merged through a series of rca adapters. it worked, but the levels were all over the place. i looked at the £20-£30 mixer solutions, but many neg reviews around build quality and noise levels. found the splitmix4 bhy accident and whilst it was more than i expected to spend, it was worth it, used existing cables with some rca to 1/4" jack adapters, took two minutes to setup, and it's exactly what i wanted. no noise, no fuss. you need to set all your outputs to 100% then use the mixer to adjust. i've got mine going into some old bose powered pc speakers and the sound it great.

In general this works very well. Quality seems fine. Not sure I would trust it for super-critical listening tasks but on the whole I can't tell the difference between passing signals through this and going directly from my audio interface to monitors.Things to watch for are...It's very small and sockets are annoyingly tightly spaced. I couldn't fit two of the normal 'splitter' cables I use next to each other in the available space (and they're not unreasonably chunky for a high-quality cable) so had to solder up some cables of my own that I knew would fit.Each channel can be used to mix OR split, not both. So you can't mix four inputs and send that to four outputs, only two and two. I can see why it's designed like this (there's only one attenuator per channel) but personally I would have preferred a design where the split signal operates without any attentuation in this scenario and you could mix four channels into one and then split that to four destinations. As it is I can live with 2+2 though. Check the manual for some suggestions on configurations.It's passive so there's a large volume drop. Doesn't seem to matter for me but if you're using sources where the signal level is low (eg a direct instrument level signal from an electric guitar or something) this could cause a problem as it will affect the level your signal hits any effects later in the chain.All in all I'm pleased with it, very useful little device. Could see myself getting another one.

My review is not about this particular product. I am reviewing ART, the company which makes the mixer. Year ago I bought a guitar fx rack from ART. The piece of garbage cut me about 700 dollars and broke after only a few uses. The company never honoured with the warranty and i had to put the rack unity in the garbage. U$700 flushed down the sewer.