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Setting up a mixing board.
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| Jakor |
Ok, so I've been mixing with my board for a while now. I've mainly (ok all but 3-4 times) used strictly 2 headphones to mix. (I gotta be really quiet most of the time.) But I was messing around today and plugged my mixer into my dad's reciever and was using his stereo. I noticed that I couldn't get my music up to the 0 db mark on the mixing board without getting really distorted. Most of the time (mixing with headphones) I didn't pay attention to it cause I was TRYING to be quiet. It's normally up 2(-31) lights on the eq I got it up to about 7(-11) But I had my sliders up to 10/10 the gains up 3/4th of the way on each channel, and the master all the way up. I've done sound engineering on big (32-64 channel) boards for almost 5 years. I've never had to turn anything up near there to get the board to peg. Should it be different when mixing?
I've got a SSM-1850 Radio Shack (all I could afford for a first board). |
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| Nemesis44 |
Probably stating the obvious, but are you sure that you are using the right type of input, if you go through a phono input you can really screw the signal and the amplifier up if it's not a deck that you are plugging in.
If I have missunderstood your post my apologies.
Cheers
Nem |
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| Jakor |
4 channel mixer first 2 are phono/line and have nothing connected to them (normally a pair of stantons on the phono's) the next two are just lines. I think I've worked it out. I just turned the gains up a bit more and can get it pretty close. After thinking about it, the other boards I've run normally had a whole bunch of stuff plugged in and running at the same time making it run alot louder out of the board.... =p
Thanks though Nem! |
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