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NEWBIE QUESTION: Need HELP With SOUNDCRAFT MIXER!
I have a Soundcraft Spirit M8 mixer that I sometimes use with my home recording
setup (Korg D16). I use the mixer's EQ and individual channel insert features to add EQ and effects to a SINGLE channel, and then I patch the channel into the Korg. I find that the mixer's extremely nice EQ controls and the channel insert make my life MUCH easier in getting a good sound into the Korg D16. OK, so far so good on getting nice EQ and effects going on a SINGLE channel...but my problems start whenever I want to try to apply effects to more than one channel at a time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEFORE YOU READ THE QUESTION BELOW, PLEASE NOTE THAT I DO *NOT* WANT TO USE THE INTERNAL EFFECTS AVAILABLE ON THE KORG D16...FOR THE MOMENT, I WANT TO USE *ONLY* OUTBOARD EFFECTS! NOW HERE'S MY QUESTION: I'm having some confusion over patching effects into ALL channels at once. I basically need step-by-step guidance on how to do this! For example, I like to use the Soundcraft as a sub-mix for drum microphones. I would like to apply compression from my dbx compressor to ALL channels before they patch into the Korg D16 recorder, but I'm not sure how to do that! The Soundcraft has 4 stereo channels, and each of these channels has a BALANCED aux send and STEREO returns which are supposed to be used to apply an effect to all channels (there are aux control knobs on ALL channels, mono and stereo)...but what if I just want to use a MONO effect? My compressor is NOT a stereo unit and I'm kind of confused how to make it patch into the stereo send/returns...and I'm wondering if it is even possible because in my headphones, I hear the effect through ONE side only! I'm currently patching the effect return into only ONE of the stereo channel returns, which I'm sure is causing the "lopsided" effect. AND HERE IS A *BIG TIME* SOURCE OF CONFUSION! READ ON... One more thing: I once wanted to apply delay from my Alesis Midiverb AND compression from my dbx compressor to a guitar that had two microphones (one close, one ambient). I tried using the aux send/return on TWO of the Soundcraft's stereo channels (one for delay, the other for compression)...although I got the compressor to work, I could NOT get the delay to work no matter what I did! I would plug my headphones into the MIXER and hear the compression AND delay just fine...but when I plugged my headphones into the KORG D16 RECORDER, I heard only the compression and NO delay at all! I need someone with more mixer experience than I have to help me!!! PLEASE HELP! I'M A THOROUGHLY CONFUSED NEWBIE! :-( |
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