Wednesday, October 28

OPTONICA MX-1000 SOUND MIXER mixer with rhythm box on Ebay

Anyone ever seen one of these before?

very rare OPTONICA MX-1000 SOUND MIXER mixer with rhythm box
manufactured by OPTONICA(high grade audio brand by SHARP)in 1970s.

looks like classy audio amp
basically it's a 2 channel mixer but it has built-in analog rhythm box!
also has built in warm analog echo & reverb! 2 MIC INPUT(one input selectable for GUITAR input),phono input and aux input so you can simply put your guitar,keyboard or vocal into it and sing/play along with rhythmbox with echo effect.
rhythm box's sound are warm analog sound in good old days. it has 8 rhythms but you can push two buttons same time to creates more variations.

cool vintage tool for lo-fi recording or small live performance
hard to find even in Japan nowadays


*click on picture for a better look.

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