Question about portable mixers

[gearhead1972]

Why not just move up to the MG10, it has dedicated monitor out, and 2 more xlr's you never know when you will need another mic input.

 

[soong]

What a wealth of great responses. I think i'll just buy a bigger desk...possibly the Yamaha MG10xu.

 

[modulusman]

What a wealth of great responses. I think i'll just buy a bigger desk...possibly the Yamaha MG10xu.

Well you obviously didn't read mine. The MG10xu is what I have and the headphone/ monitor doesn't do what you want either.

 

[soong]

Well you obviously didn't read mine. The MG10xu is what I have and the headphone/ monitor doesn't do what you want either.

haaaaang on. The MG10XU has two left and right monitor 1/4" outs, and a monitor control. isn't this pretty straight forward and usable for foldbacks??

 

[modulusman]

haaaaang on. The MG10XU has two left and right monitor 1/4" outs, and a monitor control. isn't this pretty straight forward and usable for foldbacks??

MY bad. You are right I got hung up on the idea of using the headphone jack. The board does have monitor outs but unfortunately you can't control each channel individually.

 

[RustyAxe]

It won't quite work that easily. The TRS jack on a headphone output puts the right and left signals on the tip and ring, and the common on the sleeve. A balanced TRS input, on the other hand, uses tip and ring only for the signal, and responds only to the difference in voltage between them. Therefore, a stereo pair of signals at one end will turn into a right-minus-left mess at the other.

He's not working in stereo. Both signals on the stereo phone jack will be the same. We've hooked up many keyboards (consumer grade) to a mixer this way at open mics. Actually, we may have used TS cables ... not sure.

 

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

He's not working in stereo. Both signals on the stereo phone jack will be the same. We've hooked up many keyboards (consumer grade) to a mixer this way at open mics. Actually, we may have used TS cables ... not sure.

It's not a matter of working in stereo; the problem is that it's a stereo output. When L = R (i.e., mono mix on a stereo output), then R - L = 0.

It would have to be a cable with a TS plug. However, the headphone amp circuitry might be OK with one channel driving into a short to ground via a TS plug, but it might not.

 

[soong]

MY bad. You are right I got hung up on the idea of using the headphone jack. The board does have monitor outs but unfortunately you can't control each channel individually.

Cool. That's what i thought. Not aux level for every channel kinda sucks, but it'll do for quieter gigs i think...