making my mixer work for me

[wes480]

well, I got a soundcraft M12 - becuase I heard from a lot of people that even with DAW recording, a mixer can be the center of your studio, etc.

Gear I have:

Aardvark Q10
RNC Compressor
Avalon U5 DI
Drawmer DL241 Compressor
VTB-1 Mic pre

Right now I am basically just using the mixer for it's preamps, running into the Q10 - anyone have any nifty ways I can set this stuff up so it works together in ways I never imagined?

[Blue Bear Sound]

A mixer is primarily a signal routing tool....

I hate to tell you this but since you already have mic pres (VTB-1), and you appear to be getting your signals into your DAW and then working with them (mixing, etc...) from there, there is little advantage to the external mixer!

[wes480]

heh...well, it is still pretty.

[Vurt]

Yeah, and beautiful EQ! I'm using one to submix drum mics into a Korg D1600 (only records 8 trks simult) with the digital out. Kind of stupid since the m12 won't be practical for the next recorder I intend to get (24 trk HD) eventually, but what hell... it works now, sounds great, and was pretty inexpensive anyway.

[gbondo9]

I just read "Home recording for Musicians", and while alot of the gear oriented info in it is a little dated, its got some very informative (IMHO) pages on using mixers to route signals different ways, and it gives a good breakdown of signal routing in general. I was clueless to this particular information (I was just using my mixer for preamp/EQ) so others may find this text very beginner. It was very helpful to me though.

-Todd