Responce to Brianjunglist, The mixer i use.

0:00 Logically there, when it's on 1, you're going into line input

Alright folks, this is a video response for Brian, I think it's Brian the Jungleist, he's asked to look at my mixer. So here you go, it's not the most expensive mixer in the world, it's very box standard actually, but it's pretty robust and does exactly what it says on the tin. You've got your line input here, if I look over there now, cue, sort of just zoom in, you've got mic and one. So logically there, when it's on 1, you're going into line input. So there you can have CD player, DAT player, MP3, even your PC if you want to. There, mic input. Game control, EQ. Notice here it's only minus 12 and plus 12 dB. If you go on a lot of the more modern day mixers, you've got a virtual cut-off of bass, mid and treble. The high is the treble, the mid is the mid.

1:22 You're better off, less in this case is more

The low is the bass, okay? Now, I've always said, and I will stand by what I say, you're better off always keeping these while you're doing your mixing at 12 o'clock. When you start, well when I say while you're mixing, what I should say is when you're playing your tunes. Of course, you know, it's always a nice idea to just mess around with them a little bit. It's not so bad with these because these are only plus and minus 12. But bearing in mind, some of the mixers today will go up to say plus 36. And when you start whopping in an extra 36 dB into the mix of bass, then it'll just sound absolutely atrocious. So you're better off, less in this case is more. You can knock it off as much as you want, that's fine because you're putting less input into the amplifier and the speakers.

So they're in, well you won't blow them, but as soon as you start doing this and whopping it straight up there, believe me it'll just sound shit and there's a good chance you'll start blowing those big woofers and they're very expensive to fix. So there you go, there's the pan there, basically that goes from L which is left, R through to right. Same with the other three, exactly the same with the other three channels. The two channels in the middle are for phono which is turntables. Two, three, line, which you can see there, and four. Again, exactly as line one, CD player, DAC player, etc. Crossfade here, very small crossfade, and you'll notice either side of the crossfade, there's two little buttons. Now what they do is, if you imagine the two volumes are up like so, crossfade is this side. If I then start tapping this one, what that does, it lets, it actually bleeds in this side here.

2:40 Even though the crossfade is this side, it will actually bleed that si

Even though the crossfade is this side, it will actually bleed that side through. So you'll almost get a ah-ah-ah sound. Here you've got your master volume, you've got your booth volume which is of course your monitors so you can work two amplifiers off this one like with a lot of modern day mixers. So your booth would be say for speakers either side as you can see there I've got some ohm cabs but I haven't got those attached to the booth they're just attached to the main output so if I was doing a big gig I would have these speakers attached to the booth, so there basically would be a completely separate entity, a completely separate volume control to the volume control that I would be using here. So this would be the main output that the punters would hear and that would be my volume control that only I will be able to hear. Now down here you've got something, it's basically, the dial here you've got is for your headphones.

When it's at cue, you will only hear the channel that you have assigned to your headphones. But as soon as you start turning this, it'll go to OP, which is open, and slowly you'll hear bleeding through your headphones the actual sound that's coming through the main PA. And eventually when you get to here, you won't hear what's coming through your headphones that you're cuing in, you will actually hear what's coming through the main PA. And then slowly back there, that's through your headphones. Here, level control for your headphones. There is where the actual headphone socket goes in. And that side is where the microphone socket goes in. And at the back of the mixer you've just got all your inputs and you've got your outputs. So there you go. Brief description of a cheap and cheerful mixer. I hasten to say that I actually bought this for 55 quid off eBay. Brand new in a box.

So there are bargains to be had out there. So practice and enjoy. Take it easy. Bye bye.

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