I had a KM-6A years ago and while I don't want to ruin your experience, I was kind of disappointed. Yes it can do your basic overdriven sound but imho my BX-16 does it better + it has an adjustable gain knob. If you want to get really rude then there's tons of guitar pedals. KM-6A - ok, but not great.

Wow

Also, the Boss KM-60 series has an input selector at -35dB for direct electric guitar.

I recommend the Mad Max Mixer from Spherical Sound - £100 and does lovely saturation

I love the way old hardware looks and feels! I love the way they were built to be fixed and used

"Accent reduction" is nonsense. There is no "reducing" an accent, because there is no such thing as "non-accented" speech. There are only accents that are *perceived as* "more standard" or "more prestigious" that go un-marked because they are dominant. But anyway. Don't do that!

Hasn’t layering instruments when recording a track been done since the sixties. Whatever it takes to make your sound. The people that criticise this practice are possibly jealous that they can’t do it. I’m in Northern England and you don’t seem to have a strong accent. It’s about time people started to learn how to understand the different accents. Thanks again for your great channel and episode.

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Thank you for this! Im having a situation rn and this is immensely helpful

Why on earth all people that are interested in Analog synth & effects are always making boring repetitive electronic music?

Sounds delicious

Yerrr (drumroll rrrrr) speaking well, laddy!

I love the Scottish accent! 💖💖 I have a KM6A that I've had now for around 35 years. To be honest, I haven't done anything with it for years, but it was my main keyboard mixer for my live rig in the 90s and early 2000s. I might have to dig it out and explore its overdrive character now though.

Pro tip you can get some pretty nice boss mixers that are older from reverb that don't have the same aesthetic but have the nice saturated sound you can get, I got the bx8

Superb 😊👍👍👍

It looks a lot like the mixer for the the old roland system 101

I just use an old Mackie CR-1602. Good enough for Daft Punk, Brian Eno, and a bunch others. Plus you have sends and decent EQ!

Well… (looks at his analog heat…) Maybe I still need one! 🤣

Regarding the accent... A few years ago I binge-watched "Still Game." For the first 4 episodes I struggled with some of the dialog, but by episode 5 I understood everything just fine. And that's how I came to understand the Scottish accent. All it takes is exposure. Also, I think Still Game is bloody hilarious, but I could see where it might offend some. I liked it so much my daughter bought the whole run on DVD, and bought me a DVD player with the right region so they would play here in the US.

Had one of these in the eighties, great fun. I must have sold it at some point but I don’t know why! ☺️

Love what it does with the snares

so no gotek?

I'd love to know what pedal or amp this colour is most like. With 1000s of gain pedals out there, it must be like something. Blues driver? Russian muff? Acapulco gold? Discuss...

Don’t mess with the lovely Scottish accent! I like it!

Hey, I've never seen your vids before, but I'll give you a watch if only out of appreciation that you'd work so hard to disturb your pronunciation so as to be understood by those of us who no longer know how to speak (or hear) the King's English proper, and such like. ;^)

How do you compare with the bx800?

Studiomaster Mixdown Gold was a great console, the sound of early UK techno and drum and bass, way better than the Mackies that were also popular at the time, the eq in particular sounded fantastic, probably one of the last great affordable British mixers before everything went over to surface mount technology and cheap (sometimes leaky) electrolytic capacitors. Quite big but solid electronic design, and a joy to use with the big smooth faders.

Because youtubers this old stuff price is not equal to out results just take elektron heat mki cheaper. )

Track at 7:30 is beautiful.

god it looks so much better than the BX series, of which I have a BX-8, it's fun and the two effect sends are great but it is INSANELY plasticky as you say and also has some unobtanium 18V power brick that will probably die one day and render it useless. aaaargh!

You have my attention!!

Its true about those Boss units being built like tanks. I have an old Loopstation and it could survive a tactical nuclear strike, record the sound and loop it until the battery went flat.

yeah Tokyo is crazy! enjoyed my time there too!

Can yer mutha so? Can your mother sew?....

Nice banger!Is there a schematic or parts list?

Great aesthetic, sound and name

Heh.... I got the TD-3 and RD-6, but it's the 3 that's green and 6 that's red. :)

Get a elektron analog heat

This thumbnail is glorious man haha and the overdrive from that BOSS mixer sounds friggin superb! If you ever decide to give it a name.. call it Crom.😁 It's also awesome to see you finally break out your TD-3!🐀

I have never heard of this before but thanks for the gas!!! 🙌🏽

The KM-60 and KM-6a were made in 1978, and they use preamp ICs, and will overdrive like transistors do. Later Boss designs, which probably include almost all other KM series, use OpAmps. Opamps do not overdrive, they brutally clip in ways that sound almost like digital clipping. Does that mean they won't work for this? No... they **might** still overdrive. For example. the BX-8 and BX-16 do overdrive nicely. That's because, on the input stage, I presume as over-voltage protection, there are two diodes across the preamp input. So those diodes will overdrive nicely. This is in fact the same type of design used in many overdrive guitar pedals. But the design is different from the KM-60, and I'm not surprised the overdrive sounds different.

Another wonderful video- thanks for the tips on the modern alternatives! While I do really appreciate how the build quality helps with the experience of the mixer as an instrument, if you just want the sound- many many guitar dirt pedals ( esp fuzz ) will work really well. You could get 6 metal zone clones - one for each output of the drum machine for the price of some vintage mixer- but it would not be the same experience at all. Keep up the great work!

i want it. this looks like exactly what i need right now actually. this adds so much to a sound its incredible but most people wont notice it necessarily. that analog saturation is just beautiful

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Nice! Congrats!

hmm, another good candidate for Berhinger?

You nailed the immobile pocket operator sound 🙌

cronchy mixer

Very odd. I wrote you a very positive comment but its been removed... Did you get a chance to read it?😮😢🎉