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mixer and uses
For live shows and performances Fatboy Slim uses Rane TTM 57SL mixer with Serato Scratch Live and Serato Video.
* A swept-tuned spectrum analyzer uses a superheterodyne receiver to down-convert a portion of the input signal spectrum ( using a voltage-controlled oscillator and a mixer ) to the center frequency of a band-pass filter.
One interesting note is that one of the early advertised uses of Dr. Enuf, curing hangovers, coincided with Tri-City Beverage's other soft drink at the time, a drink mixer called Mountain Dew.
A typical concrete mixer uses a revolving drum to mix the components.
In season 5, episode 1 of TV series MacGyver, the series ' main character uses an engine from a small portable gasoline powered concrete mixer, in order to build an aeroplane.
The inside of a transit mixer uses a simple Archimedes ' screw to mix and to lift the concrete to the delivery chute.
A typical homemade mixer uses a small electric motor mounted directly on a shaft with two four-inch square blades attached, resembling milk shake maker.

mixer and non-linear
It should not be confused with harmonic distortion ( which does have widespread use in audio effects processing ), nor with intentional modulation ( such as a frequency mixer in superheterodyne receivers ) where signals to be modulated are presented to an intentional nonlinear element ( multiplied ) ( see non-linear mixers such as mixer diodes and even single-transistor oscillator-mixer circuits ).
The mixer, which is commonly a ( photo -) diode, has a non-linear response to the amplitude, that is, at least part of the output is proportional to the square of the input.

mixer and component
* Sound card mixer, a component of the audio subsystem of a personal computer
In that case, the homodyne mixer translates the signal frequencies by ( A + B )/ 2, with a synchronized phase, which moves the highest component to ( B − A )/ 2 and the Nyquist rate to just ( B − A ).
Along with the mixer changes, the chip was stripped of its predecessor's SSG component, although its vestigial SSG envelope generator is still functional.
For example, a key component of a superheterodyne receiver is a mixer used to move received signals to a common intermediate frequency.
In Windows 95, 98 and Me, the DirectSound mixer component and the sound card drivers were both implemented as a kernel-mode VxD driver ( Dsound. vxd ), allowing direct access to the primary buffer used by the audio hardware and thus, providing the lowest possible latency between the user-mode API and the underlying hardware, but in some cases causing instability and blue screen errors.
In Windows 2000, Microsoft also implemented the same WDM-based audio stack on Windows NT by introducing the WDM audio drivers and the kernel mixer component ( KMixer ).

mixer and produce
Basically, the foam machines that produce such stock consist of two or more pumping units, a variable mixer, a nozzle carriage assembly, and, in many cases, a conveyor belt to transport and contain the liquid during the reaction process and until it solidifies into foam.
mixer may inadvertently produce additional frequencies such as 3rd-and higher-order intermodulation products.
Radio transmitters may also use a mixer stage to produce an output frequency, working more or less as the reverse of a superheterodyne receiver.
Single handle mixer valves produce a variable mixture of hot and cold water at a variable flow rate under control of a single handle.
When Tubby was asked to produce versions of songs for sound system MCs or toasters, Tubby initially worked to remove the vocal tracks with the faders on Reid's mixing desk, but soon discovered that the various instrumental tracks could be accentuated, reworked and emphasised through the settings on the mixer and primitive early effects units.
Scratching is a DJ or turntablist technique used to produce distinctive sounds by moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable while optionally manipulating the crossfader on a DJ mixer.
In 1936, inventor Earl Prince used the basic concept behind the freon-cooled automated ice cream machine to develop the Multimixer, a " five-spindled mixer that could produce five milkshakes at once, all automatically, and dispense them at the pull of a lever into awaiting paper cups.
The simplest form of product detector mixes ( or hetrodynes ) the RF or IF signal with a locally derived carrier ( the Beat Frequency Oscillator, or BFO ) to produce an audio frequency copy of the original audio signal and a mixer product at twice the original RF or IF frequency.
Once the dialogue editor has completed the dialogue track, the re-recording mixer then mixes it with the music and sound effects tracks to produce the final soundtrack.
* A video mixer, which combines the video from the camera with the video from the realtime rendering software to produce a final video output.

mixer and both
There are two basic circuits that both use the term mixer, but they are very different types of circuits: additive mixers and multiplying mixers.
If the two input signals are both sinusoids of specified frequencies f < sub > 1 </ sub > and f < sub > 2 </ sub >, then the output of the mixer will contain two new sinsoids that have the sum f < sub > 1 </ sub > + f < sub > 2 </ sub > frequency and the difference frequency absolute value | f < sub > 1 </ sub >-f < sub > 2 </ sub >|.
The autodyne receiver, which has one stage function as both a local oscillator and a heterodyne mixer, had several inventors around 1912 to 1913.
The sound mixer is considered a department head, and is thus completely responsible for all aspects of production sound including the hiring of a boom operator and utility sound technician, planning the technical setup involving sound including both sound equipment and ancillary devices involved in syncing and time offsets, anticipating and discussing sound-related problems with the rest of the crew, and ordering and preparing the sound equipment to be used on the set.
Banks achieved a distinctive sound by running all of his keyboards ( as well as his 12-string guitar ) into a mixing board and then running the signal output of the board into a Leslie speaker ( both the mixer and the rotary speaker were homemade ).
Also, the animation contains both up-and down-converted spectra, which is due to a frequency mixer producing both sum and difference frequencies.
Applications specific to a true analog multiplier are those where both inputs are signals, for example in a frequency mixer or an analog circuit to implement a discrete Fourier transform.
A single balanced mixer is arranged so that either the local oscillator ( LO ) or signal input ( RF ) is suppressed at the output, but not both.
A double balanced mixer has symmetrical paths for both inputs, so that neither input signal appears at the output, only the product ( IF ) signal.
Round developed a receiver he called an autodyne in which the same valve was used as a mixer and an oscillator, Whilst the set used fewer valves it was difficult to optimise the circuit for both the mixer and oscillator functions.
The terms vision mixer and video mixer that describes both the equipment and the device operator are used outside the USA.
The tag acts as a mixer reemitting a combination of signals from both fields.
But the two signals are combined in low power IF circuits ( i. e., after modulators ) The mixer and the amplifiers are common to both signals and the system needs no high power combiners.
Bitter lemon is drunk both by itself, and as a mixer.
A utility sound technician, or simply assistant soundman or cableperson is an assistant to both the production sound mixer and the boom operator on a film set.

mixer and sum
The IF signal frequency is chosen to be either the sum of the two frequencies at the mixer inputs ( up-conversion ), or more commonly, the difference frequency ( down-conversion ),, depending on the receiver design.
In its most common application, two signals at frequencies f < sub > 1 </ sub > and f < sub > 2 </ sub > are applied to a mixer, and it produces new signals at the sum f < sub > 1 </ sub > + f < sub > 2 </ sub > and difference f < sub > 1 </ sub >-f < sub > 2 </ sub > of the original frequencies.
This type of mixer produces the original frequencies as well as their sum and their difference.
In the frequency domain the switching mixer operation leads to the usual sum and difference frequencies, but also to further terms e. g. +- 3 * fLO, +- 5 * fLO, etc.
The two outputs of the mixer are the sum and difference of two signals.

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