Aux Bus Mixing; Monitor Mixing - PRESONUS STUDIOLIVE 24.4.2 Owner's Manual

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8.5

Aux Bus Mixing

Aux Bus Mixing
8.5

8.5.1 Monitor Mixing

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6. Press the Select button for Subgroup 3 and assign the group to the main output.
(Because a delay can increase the signal's volume quite dramatically, you may
want to experiment with the delay at its most intense setting, with EFX A's output
turned up, and use the limiter for Subgroup 3 to keep the level under control.)
The level of the vocal delay is now controlled by the Subgroup 3
fader, and you can use it to season your reggae band's performance.
The Tap button allows you to go one step further and set the
tempo of the delay to match the tempo of the song.
There are several advantages to assigning an effect like delay or reverb
to a subgroup rather than simply leaving it on the effects aux bus:
• You can quickly add or subtract the effect by grabbing a fader.
• The effect can be muted or soloed.
• The performers on stage can have a different amount of the effect in
their monitor mix than the audience hears in the main mix, enabling
you to reduce the possibility of feedback while providing the performers
with the tools they need for the best performance possible
The Aux Bus provides outputs to create auxiliary mixes that are separate
from the main and subgroup mixes. The StudioLive is equipped with 8 aux
buses: Aux 1-6, which have physical output jacks, and EFX A and B, which
are the internal effects buses. Aux buses can be used for many applications,
the two most common of which are creating monitor mixes and inserting
external effects processors into the mix. As with the subgroup buses,
the StudioLive allows you to add global dynamics processing and EQ to
these aux buses in addition to the individual channel processing.
Creating custom monitor mixes for your musicians is critical. If musicians
can't hear themselves or their bandmates, their performance will suffer. A
monitor mix can be mono or stereo. Most often, an individual live monitor
mix is mono and is sent to a floor-wedge or sidefill monitor. (The obvious
exception is in-ear monitor systems.) A studio monitor mix is usually stereo
and is sent to a headphone amplifier, so it requires both a left and a right
channel input. In both cases, the function of the aux bus is the same.
1. As an example, let's create a mono monitor mix on Aux 1. To begin, press
the Mix button in the Aux 1 section. The meter section of the StudioLive
will now display the amount of send to this aux bus from each of the 24
channels. Keep in mind that the aux mix is completely independent of every
other output (main bus, subgroups, direct out, etc.). The encoders below
each meter control the channel send level to Aux 1. Use these enconders
the same way that you use the faders to set the output level to your main
mix. Ask your musicians what they would like in their monitor mix, and
use their requests as a starting point to create the best mix for them.
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