Customer Reviews

Nady MM4 Four Channel Stereo Mini Mixer

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I bought one of these mixers to hook up four computers in my office rather than have four sets of speakers, and it works like a charm. All I did was to get some 6' stereo cables with pairs of eighth-inch plugs on each end, stuck quarter-inch adapters on the mixer ends, stuck Y adapters on the computer ends (since each computer output is stereo, and thus inherently a left and right signal together), and plugged the whole thing in. Now I can indepently adjust the volume on each of my computers without having to switch to a machine and futz with its audio settings.

Of course, this means that I'm only mixing two (front) channels from each computer, but for these office machines, this is sufficient. For the main machine, I just connected the rear, center, and subwoofer directly to speakers. If I decide in the future that I need the additional channels, I can always add additional mixers. (I could route the rear channels as a pair and the center and sub as a pair, meaning that I'd need three stereo or 6 mono channels per machine, and thus an additional two mixers.)

Some technical notes, in case they didn't come through from the item description: The mixer has female quarter-inch connecters, and this makes sense to me, since it was no doubt designed for mixing audio equipment like guitars, amplifiers, and so forth. Since it has adjustable gain, it can handle sources at different levels, so presumably I could mix and match line-level inputs like my computer with microphones and other audio equipment.

The mixer is compact, resting neatly on top of my KVM switch, with the cords hanging out the back toward the wall, and thus creating very little clutter. The dials are large enough for fine-grain adjustment. The unit is silent, and doesn't seem to add any perceptible line noise to the signals it's mixing (though I'm not an audio expert, and this is by no means a professional audio mixing setup). It doesn't seem to run hot or even warm, and thus doesn't contribute to global (or, more to the point) office warming.

Overall, I'm very glad that I bought this mixer. It is now a constant part of my office setup, and has been for a couple of months, working flawlessly.

It's a nice little stereo mixer. I use it in my home studio setup, where it mixes the stereo outputs of my electronic keyboard and two computers.

Could be better - its frequency range is a bit narrower than I'd like. But it's pretty good for a low-cost mixer!

Because it has volume sliders on top of the unit, I recommend keeping it covered when not in use. Over the years, dust has gotten into the sliders, now some slider positions only put out a left or a right channel. Wriggling them a little makes them go back to normal, but it's there.