Hi All,
I think these phase problems are exaggerated a little bit.
If I remember it correctly, phase shifting will possibly only occur every 5 or 6 channels or so. It should never happen within a stereo channel (phase shift between left and right channels). I think the phase shift between different channels should rarely give you any problems, because in most cases there is a different instrument or sound on every channel of your mixer; it doesn't matter if your bass guitar track is delayed a few samples from your lead guitar track.
An example of when these phase shifts can be a problem is if you use acoustic recordings with a lot of crosstalk between the channels. For example, if your bass guitar track also picked up a lot of signal from the lead guitar, phase problems can occur between the lead guitar from the bass guitar track and the original lead guitar track (but you already could have phase problems because of the difference in distance between the microphones and the sound source
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To summarize: in most cases phase shifts between channels in a mixer will only give you problems if the same sound/instrument is plugged in more than one (mono or stero) channel.
cheers,
vincent