Dangerous Music 2-BUS-XT

Economical Active Analog Summing

The Dangerous Music 2-BUS-XT is an economical 16-channel active analog summing mixer with a circuit devised by renowned designer Chris Muth. This unit really delivers the goods, nailing kicks and vocals to the center of your mix, while yielding a super-wide soundstage, near-zero channel crosstalk, and expansive headroom. With the 2-BUS-XT, your mixes will be glued together in an organic way. You'll mix faster, better, and with fewer plug-ins. This summing box includes two onboard audio processors for adding tone and color to your mixes, and it's fully expandible with additional 2-BUS-XTs, as well as Dangerous Music's other summing offerings. If you're searching for a way to elevate your mixes into the big leagues, then the 2-BUS-XT just might be the secret weapon you've been waiting for.

A duo of custom audio processors

In sync with Dangerous Music's doctrine of tonal coloration as a per-project artistic choice, the 2-BUS-XT features two custom audio processors that selectively add tone and color to your mixes. X-Former kicks in transformers for an ear-grabbing taste of second-order harmonics, yielding girthy low-mid warmth while preserving top-end clarity. Coherence increases your mix's harmonic content progressively by bringing up the detail as levels are reduced, then enables you to blend the effected signal with your source mix, parallel-compression-style. At Sweetwater, we've applied both of these effects with excellent results.

Outstanding flexibility

Dangerous Music knows that each engineer — and session — is unique, so they designed the 2-BUS-XT for outstanding professional flexibility. Channels 1/2 and 9/10 can be set to mono to rout; for instance, vocals/bass and kick/snare each to its own mono input. They also gave the 2-BUS-XT XLR connections for both the main and monitor outputs.

Gang 'em for high channel counts

Need a full-on analog "console" summing experience? Gang together multiple 2-BUS-XT units via the stereo expansion inputs XLR to create a customized channel count. You can also team the 2-BUS-XT with a Dangerous 2-BUS+, for three different color circuits, or the D-BOX+ for comprehensive monitor control.

2-BUS+ sold separately.

Dangerous Music 2-BUS-XT Analog Summing Mixer Features:

• Stunning 16-channel active analog summing mixer injects your mixes with exceptional headroom and dimensionality
• Creates a super-wide soundstage with near-zero channel crosstalk
• Delivers expansive headroom — more than enough for any DAC
• Fully expandible with additional 2-BUS-XTs, as well as Dangerous Music's other summing offerings
• 2 analog options (X-Former and Coherence) for adding tonal coloration to your mix
• Channels 1/2 and 9/10 can be set to mono
• Includes XLR connections for both the main and monitor outputs
• High-quality components ensure audiophile-grade sound