Phoenix Audio Nicerizer Junior Summing Mixer

With their Nicerizer summing mixer, Phoenix takes a decidedly modern approach to Class A circuit design. The company’s proprietary transformerless input stage delivers the full frequency spectrum with crystal-clear clarity and punch. Transformers tend to slow things down a bit, which can sound amazing in certain cases; but then slew rates take a hit, delivering sluggish transients and limiting your tonal palette.

Driven conservatively, Phoenix Audio’s electronically balanced input stage serves up ultra-clear high-fidelity sound. If you’re after fatter, more saturated tones, engage the +8dB switch individually on any channel to drive the circuit hotter for a punchy in-your-face sound that only discrete Class A buffer amps can deliver. The Nicerizer Junior captures articulate, full-bodied input signals, allowing you to drive the output stage for an immense range of pure Class A tone, from modern audiophile clarity to vintage-flavored warmth.

Masterful transformer-balanced output stage

Phoenix Audio couples their custom-wound DB694 output transformer to a fully discrete, proprietary DSOP-2 output amplifier, itself a direct descendant of the renowned TF1 amp that Phoenix chief designer David Rees developed as an upgrade for vintage Neve 80 Series console modules. Outperforming the TF1, the DSOP-2 represents a pinnacle of Class A output circuit design, offering a seamless tonal range from ultra-clean to gorgeously saturated. With its big iron and massive headroom, you can drive the DSOP-2 to taste. Crank the Nicerizer’s output stage to elicit beautifully saturated tones, back off for a cleaner high-fidelity sound, or dial up any flavor in-between.

Balanced/unbalanced

If your inputs come from a variety of sources, you’re bound to be dealing with both balanced and unbalanced signals. No worries! The Nicerizer Junior’s 16 inputs can accept either — without any of the gain loss all-to-common with many mixer inputs. This amazingly useful feature lets you easily execute many functions that are fast becoming standard practices, such as looping through guitar pedals or recording MIDI-driven synthesizers in real time while mixing.

Phoenix Audio Nicerizer Junior Features:

• 16-channel DAW Summing Mixer in a 2RU 19" rackmount chassis
• 16 channels of discrete Class A balanced transformerless input stage
• Discrete Class A transformer-balanced DSOP-2 output stage
• Phoenix custom-wired transformers on both outputs
• Individual detented pan controls on each channel
• 16 balanced XLR inputs accept balanced or unbalanced inputs with no -6dB loss
• +8dB Boost button on each channel
• Master mix bus output level controls
• Main Outputs on balanced XLRs
• Maximum Output Level of +26dB
• Generous headroom available on all channels
• Wired with PTFE silver-plated mil-spec cable