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reqluq wrote:
Hi when doing live sound how do you setup the mixer?kick on slider 1 snare 2
or do you put the vocals on one then add the other stuff as you go?is there
a universal accepted norm?

I tend to like to have the mikes on stage from left to right set up on the
console from left to right also.

Other folks like to group the vocals to the left and the instruments to the
right.

Sometimes if you're also recording, you'll be in a situation where the first
16 channels on the board go to the recording deck, but the rest of them don't,
and this affects how you lay things out.

I learned to mix on a console that had sweepable EQ on the first four channels,
fixed EQ on the next two, and no EQ on the rest of the board (because the
studio owner was cheap and didn't buy the EQ modules). So this radically
changed the way I'd lay tracks out.

There isn't any standard, although it would be nice if there were, especially
on festival gigs where you may have a dozen bands using the same setup, with
different people mixing each of them.
--scott
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