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Zoom Livetrak L-12 Mixer and Multi-track Recorder

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I've had the l-12 since it first came out, have used it on hundreds of shows, great unit at the price point. I don't use the onboard compression as I prefer not to print it when I track live shows, but I think it works fine for a 1 knob job. eq is very usable, onboard verb is fine, pre's are fine. really no complains. I have a few analog boards, but my only other digital mixer is a soundcraft ui24r which i find superior in almost every regard except that when I'm mixing from stage and and on bass or drum duty, I often prefer the zoom to mixing on a tablet as it's just WAY easier for me to quickly grab a fader or knob while continuing to play with with other hand.
 
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I used mine with a singer/2 guitars/bass set-up, with prerecorded drum tracks (until our drummer can join us) for the 1st time last weekend. Only used it for an acoustic duo since I bought it about a year ago.

Am I understanding this correctly : when adjusting a band member's mix (sent through A-B-C-D-E phone outs), the faders will of course increase or reduce the volume for the selected instrument, but if I fiddle with the gain knob, EVERY band member will "hear" the difference ?
Not sure I'm describing it correctly... searched the user manual to get info on this, but no luck.
 
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Bassmike62 said:
Am I understanding this correctly : when adjusting a band member's mix (sent through A-B-C-D-E phone outs), the faders will of course increase or reduce the volume for the selected instrument, but if I fiddle with the gain knob, EVERY band member will "hear" the difference ?
Not sure I'm describing it correctly... searched the user manual to get info on this, but no luck.
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yeah you've got it right. the gain sets the input volume and any adjustment you make to it you will hear across the master and all aux mixes. generally speaking though you'll want to set that during your setup/sound check to a decent level that doesn't peak and let it alone, using the faders to set mix level.
 
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eliascalles said:
I've had the l-12 since it first came out, have used it on hundreds of shows, great unit at the price point. I don't use the onboard compression as I prefer not to print it when I track live shows, but I think it works fine for a 1 knob job. eq is very usable, onboard verb is fine, pre's are fine. really no complains. I have a few analog boards, but my only other digital mixer is a soundcraft ui24r which i find superior in almost every regard except that when I'm mixing from stage and and on bass or drum duty, I often prefer the zoom to mixing on a tablet as it's just WAY easier for me to quickly grab a fader or knob while continuing to play with with other hand.
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This is one advantage of the Tascam: you can use the channel-comps and eqs for the live mix but still decide not to print either the comp or eq or both on the recorded multitracks. Just tracks 11/12 - the mix - will record the stereo sum including all channel settings.
 

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