WhinyLittleRunt
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I need a little help; I reorganized my basement studio 'live' room and I'm running into confusion when it comes to patchbay usage...
I bought an old rolling rack case from a buddy of mine a while back and just got around to using it.
In the rack I have my Yamaha P2100, Yamaha SPX900, Lexicon MPX-1, a DBX 164 stereo compressor, MXR 1500 delay, Aural Exciter and a Furman power conditioner.
The mixer itself is a Soundcraft EPM12:
And a Tascam PB32R patchbay I happened to have lying around. But I also have this:
which, I cannot find a thing about online, and I'm not too sure how good the quality is, but it's 1/4" and it was free so....
I hate dumping a "here's my stuff, whaddo I do" question on here with so many ways to research it myself, but I think my biggest problem is I may not have the right equipment to do what I'm asking, which is this:
Consider this setup solely live playing; no recording happening at the moment. I will be hooking up keyboards and drum machines to the mixer, and previously I was only using 1 rack effect (the SPX900) just because I only had the one stereo-in/AUX send available at the time. So since I put all this other nonsense in the rack I wanted to be able to use it for live playing.
I'm comfortable enough understanding the patchbay route for getting everything out front at least, and maybe for the instruments to be in a normalled setup and then to the mixer so I can have patch points if I want to use a pedal effect or something.. but with the rack effects I want to be able to insert one or all into each channel. The EPM12 has insert points on each channel and you have to use actual insert cables (first time I've ever encountered this). I could get use of the 2 AUX send/return points which I presume could have effects daisy-chained in the patchbay. But then there are certain effects that don't work right in the AUX setup, like the compressor.
Could anyone just take a quick look at my setup and tell me if I have the right equipment to do what I'm looking for? Do I need more channels? Are my patchbays shite?
I bought an old rolling rack case from a buddy of mine a while back and just got around to using it.
In the rack I have my Yamaha P2100, Yamaha SPX900, Lexicon MPX-1, a DBX 164 stereo compressor, MXR 1500 delay, Aural Exciter and a Furman power conditioner.
The mixer itself is a Soundcraft EPM12:
And a Tascam PB32R patchbay I happened to have lying around. But I also have this:
which, I cannot find a thing about online, and I'm not too sure how good the quality is, but it's 1/4" and it was free so....
I hate dumping a "here's my stuff, whaddo I do" question on here with so many ways to research it myself, but I think my biggest problem is I may not have the right equipment to do what I'm asking, which is this:
Consider this setup solely live playing; no recording happening at the moment. I will be hooking up keyboards and drum machines to the mixer, and previously I was only using 1 rack effect (the SPX900) just because I only had the one stereo-in/AUX send available at the time. So since I put all this other nonsense in the rack I wanted to be able to use it for live playing.
I'm comfortable enough understanding the patchbay route for getting everything out front at least, and maybe for the instruments to be in a normalled setup and then to the mixer so I can have patch points if I want to use a pedal effect or something.. but with the rack effects I want to be able to insert one or all into each channel. The EPM12 has insert points on each channel and you have to use actual insert cables (first time I've ever encountered this). I could get use of the 2 AUX send/return points which I presume could have effects daisy-chained in the patchbay. But then there are certain effects that don't work right in the AUX setup, like the compressor.
Could anyone just take a quick look at my setup and tell me if I have the right equipment to do what I'm looking for? Do I need more channels? Are my patchbays shite?