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= Dangerous Music Group= Dangerous Music Group is an American professional audio equipment design firm and manufacturer founded in New York City 2001 by producer and drummer Bob Muller with significant design contributions by audio technician and mastering engineer Chris Muth.

Analog Summing Innovation
Muth had been designing some of the most revered mastering consoles for top engineers for years when Muller and Muth devised the first commercially available analog summing mixer. Until then, recording engineers used complex analog mixing console s or a digital audio workstation to sum multiple audio tracks into a 2-track stereo mix. At the time, digital summing was broadly regarded as inadequate sonically, and the Dangerous Music analog summing mixers allowed engineers to use the DAW's full capabilities while still summing in the analog domain. Muth's analog summing designs were then, and still are, considered best in class by professional and amateur engineers around the world, as is evidenced by their broad adoption in studios.

Since the first analog summer from Dangerous Music simply called the 2-BUS, the firm has released various products aimed at both the professional and project studio engineer. With the rise of home recording, the need for a central control unit saw Muth designing products such as the professional grade 2-BUS+, the MONITOR-ST , the home studio-oriented D-BOX and B-BOX+ and the more affordable SOURCE.

Other Audio Innovations
Digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital conversion had by the 1990s become integral to recording studios around the world, but many of the early converters were plagued with jitter, or an instability in the timing of digital data streams, which caused early converters to have an unpleasing sonic character. Chris Muth took on the challenge of creating exceptional digital-to-analog stereo converters for mastering studios, and eventually Dangerous Music advanced to producing multi-channel digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters using Muth's designs which helped reduce jitter. Currently Dangerous Music offers a variety of high-end analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters.

In 2010, Dangerous Music released the BAX EQ which was a modern interpretation of a circuit design by Peter Baxandall. The "Baxandall Curve" is a kind of shelving EQ which uses very wide (or gentle) EQ curves centered at sonic frequencies both above and below the human hearing limit of 20Hz to 20kHz, but which, because the shelving curves are so wide, affect the frequencies between 20Hz and 20kHz when amplified or attenuated. Baxandall EQs are most commonly used in simple consumer devices which have a bass and treble control. The Dangerous Music BAX EQ provided engineers with a professional-grade version of the Baxandall EQ. A digital version of the Dangerous Music BAX EQ was also developed in conjunction with Brainworx making it compatible with most DAWs and with the plug-in system developed by Universal Audio.