User manual YAMAHA MG8-2FX

[. . . ] MIXING CONSOLE MIXING CONSOLE Owner's Manual Making the Most Of Your Mixer Pages 6 to 14 EN PRECAUTIONS PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING * Please keep this manual in a safe place for future reference. WARNING Always follow the basic precautions listed below to avoid the possibility of serious injury or even death from electrical shock, short-circuiting, damages, fire or other hazards. These precautions include, but are not limited to, the following: Power supply/Power cord · Only use the voltage specified as correct for the device. The required voltage is printed on the name plate of the device. · Use only the specified AC power adaptor (PA-10 or an equivalent recommended by Yamaha). [. . . ] If the output level meters are peaking constantly you will need to lower the channel faders until the overall program falls within a good range--and this will depend on the "dynamic range" of your program material. MG8/2FX 11 Making the Most Of Your Mixer 4. Internal and External Effect Mixes 4-1. Effect Bus For Convenient Effect Control There are a number of reasons why you might want to "tap" the signal flowing through your mixer at some point before the main outputs: the two most common being to create a monitor mix and to process the signal via one or more effect units and then bring it back into the mix. Monitor mixing is not always required in small consoles, but effect processing is important in a wide range of applications. Your mixer has an effect bus that lets you send the channel signals to the internal effect processor as well as to external effect gear connected to the EFFECT SEND output. Larger mixing consoles might have 6, 8, or even more auxiliary and effect buses to handle a variety of signal routing and processing needs. Using the effect buses and controls on your mixer is pretty straightforward. The more you rotate the EFFECT control on any channel clockwise, the more signal is sent from that channel to both the internal effect processor and the EFFECT SEND jack. The effect send is "post-fader, " which means that the signal is taken from a point after the channel fader, so its level will be affected by both the effect send level control and the channel fader. This is important because it means that once you set the amount of reverb that you want to add to the channel by using the EFFECT control, for example, you can use the channel fader to raise or lower the overall channel level while maintaining the balance between the main channel signal and the reverb effect. 4-2. Channel Inserts for Channel-specific Processing Another way to get the mixer's signal outside the box is to use the channel inserts. The channel inserts are almost always located before the channel fader and, when used, actually "break" the mixer's internal signal path. Unlike the EFFECT send and return, the channel insert only applies to the corresponding channel. Channel inserts are most commonly used for applying a dynamics processor such as a compressor or limiter to a specific channel--although they can be used with just about any type of in/out processor. Channel Fader When a plug is inserted into the channel insert jack, the internal signal path is interrupted and sent outside the mixer for external processing. Channel insert jacks must be used with a special insert cable that has a TRS phone jack on one end and mono phone jacks on the split "Y" end. One of the mono phone jacks carries the "send" signal to be fed to the input of the external processor, and the other carries the "return" signal from the output of the processor. To the input jack of the external processor To the INSERT I/O jack Sleeve Sleeve Ring Tip Tip To the output jack of the external processor 12 MG8/2FX Making the Most Of Your Mixer 5. Approaching the Mix--Where Do You Start? Mixing is easy, right?Just twiddle the faders around until it sounds right?Well, you can do it that way, but a more systematic approach that is suited to the material you're mixing will produce much better results, and faster. There are no rules, and you'll probably end up developing a system that works best for you. But the key is to develop a system rather than working haphazardly. Here are a few ideas to get you started: Music First--Then Mix In any case, the music comes first. Think about the music and let it guide the mix, rather than trying to do things the other way around. [. . . ] Pour plus de détails sur les produits, veuillez-vous adresser à Yamaha ou au distributeur le plus proche de vous figurant dans la liste suivante. Die Einzelheiten zu Produkten sind bei Ihrer unten aufgeführten Niederlassung und bei Yamaha Vertragshändlern in den jeweiligen Bestimmungsländern erhältlich. 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