And its every bit as weird, quirky, and awesome as youd expect.
TE is known for its beautiful design, and for squeezing weird but excellent innovations into its products.
It is also quite flawed.
Teenage Engineering
Oh, and it costs $1,199.
“The TX-6 is perfect for what Im aiming for.
It replaces the need to get a few different machines that basically added up to around $1096.
Teenage Engineering
For instance, it also has a sequencer and synthesizer, plus Bluetooth for controlling it from other devices.
Most mixers are big and have a whole section dedicated to hooking up microphones or instruments like guitars.
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But then the problems begin.
First, there are speculative worries.
Thats not a good precedent for a USB audio mixer.
And then theres the biggestor smallest problem: the size.
A tiny unit is fine, but this thing is so small it hurts usability.
For starters, those knobs are tiny.
Really tiny and really close together, making accurate prefs difficult.
And then we come to the most embarrassing design oddity.
The TX-6 uses tiny 3.5mm jacks, the same we use for headphones.
And that, too, is fine.
The problem is that most 3.5mm jack cables wont fit.
“I think the dealbreaker for me is going to be the cables.
Correction 4/25/22: Fixed the second Key Takeaway to match the actual price from the Teenage Engineering website.
