Mixer Mixing
Consoles – How to choose
A blender is designed to plug into many signals that alter the signals and mix them in one or more signals to a recorder or PA can be sent. A common way, are described in the mixer by the number of buses. A bus is a channel and can control a number of channels and their group with a fader. You can have 3 of your starters, mix, then the management of these three signals in a bus. You can rest of your receipts and take another bus. So you see described as 4 Buss Mixer, 8 buses, etc.
Here's an example, say you have the Sound check and you have the drums loud. Now the group is for all, the place is crowded, and you must turn the drums. But you have 8 drum microphones all on different channels. Is it possible all 8 faders appear around the same amount and you keep your good mix? Probably not, but all you can All 8 of these channels in a bus. Well, if the volume of the bus you turn all the drums!
Most consoles have all separate channels on the side left, and the master section on the right. Whether a mixer 4 channel mixer and a 32-channel controls for each channel are equal. You have the input jack, then a preamp, then a little to send, then your EQ, then the balance, and finally the volume control. The signal on this line, then sent the master section. This operation is repeated for each channel. Then the master output to your amplifier.
Your signal goes through all these switches and buttons. Each adds a small amount of noise to the signal. Why a Mackie mixer is better than a Behringer? Less noise. If the manufacturer uses high quality components for they are much less noise than if cheap components are used. It makes a big difference and you get what you pay for the quality of the microphone are also for.The important. If the manufacturer has used a $ 100 pre-amplifier or preamplifier made-in-China $ 1? There are reasons, better mixers cost more money.
Some consoles have built-in effects. This makes it easy to use, but the effects are not as good as a standalone effects processor. You would not use these effects for the record, but they are probably good enough for sound.The last live, see what is now the number of departures. You need a pre-fader for each monitor mix, did you send. You also need a post-fader for each unit of the external effects that you want to use for send.
Thus, the Mixer is the best? Consider first mover status, the number of buses (which you many options for routing) is the number of channels, the number of auxiliary (pre and post) and effects.
About the Author
Neal is a freelance audio engineer based out of Chicago. He works for several local production companies as well as with his own clients. He also has a website at www.livesoundweb.info
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