Do not buy Mixing Board until you read this review

Posted by On December - 8 - 2010
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17 Responses to “Do not buy Mixing Board until you read this review”

  1. Alex says:

    You can try here for more help with that.http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/musical-instruments/144701-yamaha-em-300-mixer-troubleshooting.html

  2. Italian Soda says:

    buy this adapter for 10 buckshttp://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/XVM105F/

  3. 42 says:

    It is going to vary a little based on the mixer model you have. But here goes:I will not bore you with the details of non-linearity. A gain control will most often limit the signal this is why it is called a limiter. Run your fade slides all the way to the top of the unit. Hook all you mics up And set you master output to 0 db. Have the gains turned to 0 and slowly turn them until you start to hear feed back and the back off. You may have to back off more on a previous channel as you go. Once set you will not run into feedback unless the gain or master volume is adjusted. Now all this is after you have the channels balanced for voice, flat response (maybe a little tweaking) 300 Hz to 3kHz bandwidth. Next add your audio sections and make sure your bandwidth is correct. As far as operation, mute channels not in use and do not adjust master volume unless you want to adjust everything else. Have fun

  4. Electro-Fogey says:

    There are two ways you can get it to work, and they both involve taking the circuit board out and some soldering and desoldering. The first way is to remove the input jacks and replace them with new ones, and the second way is to remove the input jacks, cut a 1/4 in extension cable in half so you have a cable with a 1/4 in jack on the end of it, and solder this wire in place of the original jack (so you would have jacks with wires coming out of the soundboard, instead of the actual jacks you had before). Bending the original contact prong is an option, I suppose, but you know that’s only a temporary solution, and if you bend something, sooner or later it will break off, so you’ll need to replace it then anyway… Not a lot of good news here, sorry.If you want to do it yourself, get one of these:http://www.mcminone.com/product.asp?product_id=21-8240&catalog_name=MCMProductsThis device will make desoldering the original connectors a snap. You can get new connectors here:http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/category/190/Connectors_(Plugs_and_Jacks).htmlIf the above site doesn’t have an exact match for your board, you may have to use the cable solution I was talking about earlier.Here’s a site on general soldering:http://www.hackaday.com/2007/10/26/how-to-introduction-to-soldering/also here:http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-solder/

  5. jon k says:

    You need a computer interface or specific sound card. Somthing like the tascam us122 is a good unit. It has 2 ins and 2 out and is afforable. Plug your mixer into that. Once you have that you need software like cubase or something to record your mix. Or you might be able to use the recorder that comes with windows aswell. Then export the file to a wave or mp3 and burn how you usualy burn cds with nero or windows media player. Thats how i do it.

  6. Tinpanallycat says:

    GEEZUS.. you know so LITTLE that I don’t think I can answer your question becaue YOU don’t know enough to understand the answer.Equalization is a whole subject just in itself. It’s using narrow or wide band filters to shape the sound to an ideal curve… to do it correctly you need a WHITE/PINK NOISE GENERATOR and a REAL TIME ANALYZER. When I am setting up for a gig, THAT is wehre I start.. I set the SOUND PRESSURE METER out in the house and then use that to EQ the house.. and I don’t use those controls on the board.. so I set those to 0 (zero) to start with and just move them later to tweek each channel.A FADER is what makes the sound louder or softer.. there is one for each channelA BUSS is where a groups of channels comes togetherThe only REAL way to learn how to do mixing is to work with someone who knows how to use all the tools… you can’t learn most of it out of a book or here on Answers for FREE and with no effort on your part… Mixing is as much ART as it is TECHNIQUE.. and you don’t learn that QUICKLY or for FREE

  7. George A H says:

    You can as long as there is an audio output from your drum machine.

  8. Daniel K says:

    15 years is not bad for a mixer – the faders eventually wear out (that is the controls that go up and down to control the volume).If you want one that will last consider these:http://www.zzounds.com/item–MAC3204VLZ3http://www.zzounds.com/item–BEHXL3200http://www.zzounds.com/item–AAHZED428http://www.zzounds.com/item–AAHGL240032

  9. TehJester says:

    The insert point on a mixing console is use prodominantly to take a split (copy) of the signal for use with external dynamics and processing harware, or to take a split and send it to other channels for double tracking and broad stereo panning.the reason i beleive that the line in isn’t working is because the signal strengh sent from you pc would be a speaker level signal not a line level signal…The insert points are a pretty basic standard thing and there aint much you can do with them beyond that.

  10. Daniel K says:

    No you can’t – sorry. Mixer’s are designed to use either the mic OR line input on a given channel not both. If you need more channels get a bigger mixer – you might condsider a Behringer. They are the best for the money.http://www.zzounds.com/item–BEHXENYX1832FX

  11. Full Frontal Cortex says:

    Had it been water or diet soda you would have been okay but milk is going to form a crust layer in all your faders.

  12. Little Dog says:

    Converters: I suggest XLR converters from juicedLink or BeachTeck…But you need to be careful. You did not tell us what you want to do…If this is for a live gig or just you…You also did not tell us which Alesis board you are using.You do NOT want to use the Mains out. This is for the house mix (main speakers) only.You want to set up a discrete AUX send (like you would for a monitor mix). The “3 pin cords” are called XLR cables. For stereo, you will need two AUX sends – Left and right. These monitor mixes will go to the XLR adapters. The XLR adapters have a 1/8″ (3.5mm) stereo jack that plugs into the camcorder.The cable you plug into your guitar is a 1/4″ mono plug.If you want to record a band, EVERYONE and EVERYTHING needs to be mic’d up or connected via Direct Box to the board. Drums, Guitars, bass, percussion, vicals, keyboards, horns… everything. If not mic’s they won’t be heard too well. If it is just the guitar, then no big deal.Much better just to use the camcorder’s mics to pick up the house mix. Board mixes just are not worth the grief. If the above paragraphs don’t make sense, read the board’s manual for setting up monitors and a monitor mix.Heads up on the HG10. It is a hard drive based camcorder. ALL hard drive based camcorders have known problems with loud audio and prolonged high vibration levels. The camcorder heads can park in an effort to protect the hard disc platters from damage – and no recording to the hard drive will happen.

  13. Kelly says:

    I cant listen to the audio clip, but assuming you dont have a noisy room or have an extremely noisy microphone:If the mic input on your laptop is from the factory, that’s where your problem is. I suggest getting a USB based audio interface from a company such as M-Audio or TC Electronics.Those will be much higher fidelity & will offer 1/4th inch balanced inputs.

  14. ChinChilla says:

    This can get a bit more complicated than it would seem- but here goes:If you want to control the faders and transport of Pro Tools, you need a console that is capable of HUI* emulation, which includes many if not most MIDI-capable consoles made since ‘98 or so. (including: JL Cooper CS-32, Tascam FW-1082, Mackie Control and Mackie Control Universal, Yamaha 01X, Alesis MasterControl, SSL AWS900, and many more…).However, if you want the faders of the console to update and respond to the movements of the on-screen faders, you need a console or control surface with motorized faders. (many of the consoles listed above do have motorized faders)The easy answer? Get a Digidesign control surface, such as the command 8, ProControl, Control 24, C24 or if you have piles of money, get an Icon (which includes the D-Command, D-Command ES, D-Control and D-Control ES).*Back in 1997, before Digidesign made their own control surfaces, Mackie created a control surface for Pro Tools, the “Mackie HUI (Human User Interface)” for Pro Tools. These older Mackie HUI consoles (and consoles which emulate it) will still work with Pro Tools, albeit in a more limited fashion than the Digidesign control surfaces.

  15. Act D says:

    if your boards have light-pipe or SPDIF it is rather simple, connect and set the software settings on the board to be what you desire (i use a Yamaha O1v as a slave to a very LARGE board)or depending on the age/connections available, you can connect the L & R outs on the small board to the AUX L & R ins on the larger board. any mixing of the mics would need to be done on the small board and then the overall level from the small board would be adjusted on the large board.

  16. spoolingturbo says:

    well, if the mixing board has 1/4″ outputs then use them,from the main speaker outputs directly to the speakers. with the passive monitors, you’ll have to get a seperate amp to power them, so you run them from an output on the mixer to the amp, then from the amp to the monitors.

  17. David E says:

    I may be able to help you, but I need more info.How much engineering experience do you have? What, specifically, do you need to know? Have you used a mixing desk before?I need to be able to filter out what you know and don’t know. I could give you a novella on how to eq or bus a sound, but you may not need that much info.

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