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r.G
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Posted: 09 May 2016 at 6:36pm |
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Hello,
As I can't afford a preamp at the moment, I'm looking for a mixer for a project I will start soon. The sound sources I'll be using are a turntable, a siren and a delay, also it should have one or two mic channels. From the mixer straight to the LMS, then to the seperate amps. Now I've got a few questions: 1) How many channels will I need? (1-2x microphone/mono and 3 stereo for turntable, siren, delay?) 2) As I see it, the only way to control the ways directly is via amp gain? To control each way (sub, kick, mid, top) individually on the mixer, I'd need to split the signals with a LMS into different channels of the mixer, then the complete signal back into another LMS with the same options, then to the amps, correct? 3) How do you set up amp and mixer gain when using only one LMS? Set mixer gain of the channels so that peaks hardly hits 0 (as I've seen in some tutorials)? But what about master? And amp gain probably "to taste" since I need to use that to control the volume? 4) I haven't quite gotten my head around the mixer wiring. Are those wiring chains correct? - Turntable -> some phono preamp -> stereo ch1 mixer - Siren -> stereo ch2 - FX send -> Delay -> stereo ch3 - Mic -> Mic pre -> Mic ch1 => MainOut -> LMS Please correct if I've got something wrong here :) Before I start to spend money on the project, I want to make sure I don't mess up the basics. Any help is appreciated
Edited by r.G - 09 May 2016 at 6:54pm |
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Conanski
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For the most part that is correct, but any decent mixer will have RIAA(phono) and mic preamps built in, and if it has an FX send it probabaly has an FX return too so you won't need to use up an input to get the wet(processed) mix back into the mains. Edited by Conanski - 10 May 2016 at 3:12am |
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r.G
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Great, thank you for your help!
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