My New Bestie - Mini Stereo Mixer + Chaos Machine from Bastl

Bastl Bestie is a brand new portable stereo mixer from the fine people over at ‪@bastlinstruments‬ - one with a dirty secret. Check out the video for more.
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[@FuZZbaLLbee]

All my friends are synths, except my bestie, that’s a mixer

[@StephenMcLeod]

Bingo.

[@fallprecauxionsmusic]

please accept my bestie...

[@Ascsoms]

This could be the mixer I didn't know I needed, that feedback function is such a sweet addition, I'm always using aux sends, to send back into them selves, and this little fella seems to capitalise on that idea, plus the super portability for gigging. Boom!

[@StephenMcLeod]

I wasn't too sure about how useful the feedback loop would be, but it honestly sounds sooo good in stereo that it's wild.

[@towerrunner4675]

The poor mans TX-6 from Teenage Engineering. Now I want to see Bestie with PO's. It's so funny when small boxes make a lot of noise.

[@StephenMcLeod]

I do love a small noisy setup.

[@gunark]

Two M8s, Jeremy? TWO? That’s insane.

[@StephenMcLeod]

I'm in the big league now Ian.

[@LabRatWarfare]

Your new Bestie Beast-y, lol, that combo is gnarly! 🤘🐀

[@StephenMcLeod]

It sounds so good with headphones especially. That beautiful stereo chaos!

[@patrikveltrusky]

M8 and bestie is match made in heaven

[@StephenMcLeod]

Hell yeah, especially double M8s!!

[@jeffryarchambeau5441]

@@StephenMcLeod Double M8s equals Z16

[@Th3rdFloor]

Nice little box of tricks right there! ,,that return channel is both chaotic and extremely authoritative but in a very good way! You can always count on your Bestie to deliver 😆

[@StephenMcLeod]

Thank God I finally have a Bestie.

[@viennabonaparte]

Love their dude mono mixer, this looks great and also in stereo, and of course everything sounds great with a bit of overdrive!

[@StephenMcLeod]

Especially for those of us mad enough to have 2 M8s!!

[@viennabonaparte]

@@StephenMcLeod 😆

[@all1nz]

Perfect for the Analog Rytm separate outs. Love to see you mess with this and the Play

[@StephenMcLeod]

Thanks Mark!! I am a big fan of the Play.

[@lying-dalai]

4:47 f*yeah! 🤘

[@StephenMcLeod]

Glad you liked that bit!! It was one of my favourites as well.

[@Aisjam]

Got all your friends out. 2 m8s and a bestie

[@StephenMcLeod]

The whole crew.

[@jeffryarchambeau5441]

I love my Bastl Dude, now I have to get his younger brother!

[@StephenMcLeod]

I guess it is younger, right?! I thought it was older, but you are right...

[@jeffryarchambeau5441]

@@StephenMcLeod Like my sons, the younger is bigger than the first born.

[@defjeff2907]

This may be my most anticipated piece of gear. Nice upgrade from Dude, the added goodies made it an instant purchase.

[@StephenMcLeod]

It genuinely surprised me. Bastl have tricks up their sleeve.

[@kenniferlopez1]

Way to go Basil. Just when I was thinking of getting a Dude. Well played.

[@StephenMcLeod]

Sneaky mofos

[@kek23k]

Nasty, I love it!

[@StephenMcLeod]

Love a bit of nasty. Particularly in stereo.

[@jboulderct]

Now I feel better about selling my Dude mixer lol. A very nice follow-up from them and a nice first look from you!

[@StephenMcLeod]

I think it's a worthy successor! Thanks for taking a look!

[@Tinnur_]

Small audio devices have an irresistible appeal to me. I have a blue box, but a pocket-sized multi-channel analog distortion unit sounds appealing. For now, I wasn't going to buy more gear, but .... Thanks for the video!

[@StephenMcLeod]

Don't let me lead you astray!!!

[@rdean150]

How are you liking the Blue Box? I was considering one of those as a portable mixing solution but yeah the analog aspect of Bestie is very tempting.

[@chipfilmstv]

Love the Bastl instruments and utilities. Good video. Ill end up getting one. I just got FREE Dude a couple months ago when Bastl threw in a Dude Mixer with the purchase of a Microgranny.

[@StephenMcLeod]

Oh man what a score! I love Bastl as well. Always making cool things.

[@RJ_Eckie]

That’s a very cool lil device! Well done Bastl

[@StephenMcLeod]

I love Bastl! Always making cool wee things.

[@JamesRamboPearce]

I just ordered one of these and this demo rocked so hard 😂❤

[@StephenMcLeod]

Thank you!! It does sound pretty awesome

[@wiggesobk]

This is really cool!

[@StephenMcLeod]

It's pretty dope!

[@avrilcadabra]

Geeze that feedback sounds insane. On my want list

[@StephenMcLeod]

I was pretty impressed with how big it sounds - partly due to the stereo nature of the feedback loop I think. It really adds a bit of texture and atmosphere.

[@subiesojourner777]

Oh my, TWO Dirtywave M8's. 😍

[@towerrunner4675]

Yeah, I thought nobody has two M8's, especially because they are hard to get. I just found out that Polyend will release a "Tracker Mini" this year.

[@StephenMcLeod]

The real secret.

[@subiesojourner777]

@@towerrunner4675 Refusing to pay scalper prices, I was on the pre-order list for 4 months, but well worth the wait. "Tracker Mini?" sounds interesting.

[@towerrunner4675]

@@subiesojourner777 So M8 and Tracker Mini are both for pre-order ATM. I like the larger display of the Tracker Mini, but it's not cheap.

[@aloisroger2300]

Dear friendof…, i‘d like to thank you very much about giving advice to the bastl bestie! - i‘m gladly enjoying this masterpiece of gear and wish you good luck and much power to move on! Cheers from Vienna 🤝

[@StephenMcLeod]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jamesorvis_mixhackers]

Was looking for a summing mixer for ages to bring signals together for before going into Octatrack. This does that plus smashhhhhes!!!! Gonna order one

[@StephenMcLeod]

Nice one! Glad it was useful. :)

[@jamesorvis_mixhackers]

@@StephenMcLeodI’ve ended up with two now, second bestie came today! One for drum buss smashing and one for consolidating synths before octa as a summing mixer. Highly reccomend they sound phenomenal when cranked too!

[@StephenMcLeod]

@@jamesorvis_mixhackers Two is a whole new level of dedication!!

[@jamesorvis_mixhackers]

@@StephenMcLeod it’s a party!

[@real_anxst]

Soft clipping maybe more than wavefolding? I dunno, but it sounded grand!

[@StephenMcLeod]

That's the spirit. I never pretended to know what I was on about. If it sounds good it works!

[@MidlifeSynthesist]

Gnarly🤟🏻🤟🏻!

[@morrinsville23]

Oooh i need one!

[@StephenMcLeod]

They are pretty cool.

[@digi_troll_man9513]

Dude!

[@StephenMcLeod]

Bestie!

[@SonicVibe]

darn it i know the myvolts 5 channel stereo mixer is 20$ but this can saturate and crunch i have to order it today darnit !!! but i wonder if it will be too crunchy into a monotron delay will find out too crunchy no such thing, always im a big fan of no input mixer techniques.

[@lyh1]

I have the dude , I miss effect send. Distortion is cool, it is cooler to wire the feedback if we need🤔

[@TechTronix01]

people used to kill channels on there big desks specifically or that kind of distortion!.. really cool!!

[@StephenMcLeod]

Hell yeah!

[@nystada]

Do you send Modular level straight in to the Bestie or line level?

[@StephenMcLeod]

Modular straight in.

[@fallprecauxionsmusic]

I likey lots!!

[@StephenMcLeod]

Yeahhhhh!

[@CNTRRNDM]

I so need this😮

[@StephenMcLeod]

It would suit your setup well!!

[@CNTRRNDM]

@@StephenMcLeod oh I bet it would😁

[@iamboody]

Twice the price of the Bastl Dude?

[@StephenMcLeod]

I'm not 100% on the final price - but the Bestie's build is markedly superior to the Dude from what I can gather, and includes USB power (rather than DC), the feedback loop, and is stereo as opposed to mono - which will all factor in.

[@patrikveltrusky]

@@StephenMcLeod its 218 euros but its basically more than twice of a mixer than the Dude

[@leewightman8619]

Actually cool wee mixer especially if you ain't got much space..

[@StephenMcLeod]

It is!

[@DetroitMicroSound]

Too bad they didn't include one dedicated aux snd/rtn,

[@StephenMcLeod]

That would be sweeet but probs require a bigger/more expensive dealio

[@DetroitMicroSound]

@@StephenMcLeod a single wouldn't have been too crazy. A few would be tho. But yea, one, and you could chain your effects in it.

[@awesomeduder]

people moaning about "it's got gain but not level!!" are having a laugh, aren't they?! buy any one of the entire rest of the cheap mixer market out there if you want that, tsk tsk. sounds great (feral) to me.

[@StephenMcLeod]

Feral is the word!!

[@rdean150]

Wait there's no battery cover on the back? Whhhhyyyyy Bastl why would you do that???? Kinda defeats the purpose of building it with a metal chassis in the first place, no? That's madness.

[@StephenMcLeod]

That does seem like a strange choice.

[@vaclav_mach]

There were multiple case prototypes - one included a battery cover. However we decided to not use it in the end - since it added more weight, production costs and the bottom couldn’t be completely flat because of it. The results of the testing was it’s really not necessary - the batteries are held well even without it. Also it’s faster to swap batteries without a cover…

[@psysword]

@@vaclav_machha ha

[@markusi_wagner]

Cool Videos..... but I don't understand any Word from this strange english accent. Sad but true. Whis he would use normal english, sure he could.

[@StephenMcLeod]

Shut it ya goon.

[@psysword]

@@StephenMcLeodha ha

[@JBBTS]

I'm really surprised you never tried on pulsar 23 I really wanna know how it's going to sound HMmm 🎛️🤖🤖🤖

[@StephenMcLeod]

It was too hard to fit it in the frame!! But that'd be a winning combination for sure. I'll maybe do another video with that included...

[@JBBTS]

@@StephenMcLeod sounds like plan 🤘 great plan can't wait to see