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Edumacate Me About Mixer Boards

#41
Munjibunga said:
I'm sensing some OE or faulty gear here if you're having to crank the input gains all the way up.
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That may very well be, but it's that way for every channel, every mic, & every sound source (voice or instrument) so it's not isolated.

I never use the compressors, so I have no idea how well they function, and I don't insert anything because I don't want to lug outboard gear. If you turn the compressor knobs all the way down, they have no effect on the channel's output, so the channels are still usable.
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Except that there's still no insert for those channels to use something better/different even if you wan t to.

Tonight, my acoustic trio played an outdoor gig using A Mackie ProFX16 with Beta 58s (instead of our usual Super 55s), and the input gains were set a little below noon. The channel faders were all set at about unity, as was the main fader. It was mondo loud - we were all going direct into my JBL PRX715 mains and PRX 612 monitors. When we left the stage, I replaced the Betas with SM58s for the next band, and didn't have to boost the gain at all.
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That's what I'd expect. Doing radio mixes, there are no speakers involved - main outs go to a channel on a studio console. I have to rely on the board's meters for level & my own ears for distortion.

If I ever needed more auxes, I'd fire up my Presonus 16.4.2, but it's a lot of board for a trio (plus drummer). I'm happy with my Mackie boards and the pre's are OK, but they don't compare to the ones that were in my former Midas Venice 24, which I sold because it was just too big and heavy. I sure loved that board, though.
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#42
Rooster009 said:
Mixer wise this is what I would do.
Yamaha EMX5016CF 16 channel powered Mixer. I've used it's pretty awesome. A lot of drummers think that they need to mic the whole kit. At your bands level, you really only need a kick drum mic and 1 mic to pickup the snare and hi hat. Everything else will usually carry the room. The yamaha has plenty of great features and plenty of power. If you actually play a outdoor show or a show where you feel it's necessary to fully mic the drums, then I would use the 10 channel mixer that you already have as a sub mixer for the drums and send that signal to the yamaha mixer.
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I already have powered mains so I didn't think a powered mixer was still an option. Or is it.
 
#44
The yamaha also has compression and built in FX that are great. Plus two aux's so you can have two separate mix's for your monitors. The built in power amp is switchable so that the signal it receives can either come from the main faders or the Aux faders. Plus the power output is switchable between 75, 250, and 500 watts per channel I believe.
 
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Rooster009 said:
The yamaha also has compression and built in FX that are great. Plus two aux's so you can have two separate mix's for your monitors. The built in power amp is switchable so that the signal it receives can either come from the main faders or the Aux faders. Plus the power output is switchable between 75, 250, and 500 watts per channel I believe.
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Huh, link to this?
 
#48
I was wrong, it's 75, 200 or 500 watts per channel.

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