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Last night I had a gig with a singer. Big place, so I brought what I think of as my loud rig.
Guitar>ME70>LittleJazz>Yamaha MG10XU mixer>powered speaker.
The singer brought a separate powered speaker but no mixer.
My idea was to put the vocal mic into channel one and pan it hard left. Then connect the L stereo output XLR to her powered speaker.
And, to run the guitar in to channel two and pan it hard right. Then run the R stereo output XLR to my powered speaker.
Hooked it up, one panned all the way left, the other all the way right.
Despite this, the mic and guitar were each in both channels. As if the pan controls were centered, which they were not.
The singer then fiddled with something, which I think was to turn down the Monitor/Phones volume control (the white one on the lower right, just above the red one).
Then it worked as I hoped. That is, each one was panned as the pan knob dictated.
I read the manual, but I didn't see anything which explains this.
Anyone know?
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10-06-2024 03:34 PM
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Could you have plugged the board's monitor outs into the power amp, instead of the main outs?
I don't know your board, but a typical multichannel mixer allows a signal to be assigned to any number of outputs that can be panned L/R.
The monitor and main signal paths should be totally separate, but it's possible (as you found) to configure a channel strip such that you route its signal to an unintended destination.
Some boards might hardwire each channel to a monitor out as well as the L/R main. In particular, mixers intended for live sound rather than recording might have this feature; you could have run into that.
If that explanation is just vague enough to be confusing, apologies!
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UPDATE: Just looked at a photo of this board online. It looks like each input channel does have a hardwired assignment to the monitor circuit. I see that ch 9/10 can be assigned to mon vs main - if that was enabled, your signal intended for monitor only could have also gone to main.
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Originally Posted by starjasmine
I also set the mixer up in the same configuration and tried it.
Here's what happened:
With the pan control all the way L (or R) and the FX turned off, it worked as it should. Meaning, the signal only comes out on the side you panned to.
But, with the FX turned on, the processed (wet with reverb) signal shows up in both the L and R stereo outputs. I don't think the unprocessed (dry) signal does.
The block diagram in the Spec manual seems to show this, if I'm reading it correctly. The pan control doesn't affect where the processed signal goes.
There is, apparently, one reverb unit for all 10 channels of the mixer. The FX knob on the channel strip determines how much signal you send to the community reverb unit. After the reverb is added, the signal goes to both L & R outputs - there is no pan control for it.
The same knob becomes an Aux send when the FX unit is off. At that point you can use it to control a third mix. Think monitor mix. You plug into the Monitor-out jack.
The upshot is that this mixer won't do what I had in mind. That is, to use it as if it was two separate mixers, each with reverb, and each running its own speaker.
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You have to be mindful of where the channel/output is in relationship to the channel adjustments are. Different mixers are different. Some have outputs that are pre-pan (vol adj, eq, etc) and some outputs are post.
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