HELP! Dumb questions from an old timer... But I am clueless..

[scottboyher]

I used to have a mixer that had 4 effect sends..

One of the sends you could put effects on the vocals without recording the effects... SO I would add reverb to the vocals in the headphones for the singer but only the clean signal would record.


Anyway,,,, what is that Pre or post?

I would like to buy a mixer that had a aux that i could add effects to the sound only in monitor stage (headphones) and record it dry..

help.. I am still dumb.

 

[MrBoogie]

I achieved that by using a mixer with direct outs on each channel. The direct out is basically the dry signal from each channel. I'd send each direct out to it's own track on my recorder. I'd send the main mix from the mixer to the person tracking. That way, you can add any effect or eq in the mixer's aux buss to help the tracker, but it doesn't affect the recording.

There are probably other ways to do this, but this is the best way, because the signal goes through less electronics to get to tape, versus using the auxiliary outs.

MrBoogie

 

[Track Rat]

Scott, depending where you output from the mixer, pre or post sends will do exactly the same thing. If you're coming from a channel direct output or are sending from an insert, the sent signal won't be affected by effects used in the mixer, the diffence being a Pre Fader/EQ Aux send won't change the AUX send level with Fader moves (because it's sent Before the Fader/EQ section) and Post is just that, sent to the AUX AFTER the Fader/EQ. Either way the effect won't record if you're sending to tape from either a channel direct output or from an insert. If you send to tape from the mixer's main outputs, What ever you hear will record, effects and all.

 

[scottboyher]

Thanks guys! That is what I needed...

 

[earworm]

for me its super simple,

i got a studiomaster sessionmix, 3 aux,
and there's 4 buttons under my AUX RETURN section:

Left + Right
sub 1 + 2
sub 3 + 4

that means that if i press on L+R you hear the reverb in the headphones ONLY (since i only record my 4 subs, not my master outputs...
i use the 2track out to go to my headphone amp, thats the same signal as my main outputs...)
and if you press 1+2, you record the reverb on channel 1 and 2...

even easier is this: i got a headphone amp with a Send and Return !
awesome !
just connect the Direct out (or an aux send) of the vocals from the mixer
to one of the 6 inputs of the HP amp,
there you choose how much verb u give them,
there's a seperate FX control for each channel

Oz audio cuemix hm-6

definately gotto check this machine out!