The difference a mortar mixer made on my foundation job last week

I've always mixed mortar by hand in a wheelbarrow. Figured it was fine, that's how my old man taught me. But I took on a foundation pour in a new subdivision near Brighton, and the job called for over 2000 bricks. Borrowed a gas powered mortar mixer from a buddy and man, the mix was way more consistent. No dry clumps, no watery spots. Anyone else find the mixer saves a lot of time on big walls?

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noahhall14d ago

Switched to one last year and it cut my mixing time in half on big jobs.

hannah24014d ago

Around 250 tracks on my last album mix, and that thing shaved off literally a whole day of automation work. Had to redo the vocal chain on 12 different backing parts but the macro controls made it so much faster to dial in each one. Ended up finishing the whole mix in three sessions instead of the usual six or seven. Did you find the presets were actually usable or did you end up tweaking everything from scratch?