Help understanding mixers

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VTgreen81

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Whats the difference between directs outs and Aux sends? If there are aux sends on each channel could they not be used as direct outs? If I assign a channel to a buss can that same channel go other places via aux send and vice versa?

Basically i'm trying to figure if the Yamaha 12/4 and a DMP-3 or Yamaha 16/4 will be a good front end for a Delta 1010 or if I need something like the Mackie 1604 VLZ Pro or Soundcraft FX16
 
The direct out lets you send a channel signal out to your soundcard independantly of the main stereo mix, allowing you to seperate that channel to a seperate track in your recording. The aux buss can do a smiliar thing, except you can route several channels to the aux. However you can only split that to 2 seperate tracks in your recording.

I have the Yamaha 12/4 at home and from memory I think you can get up to 8 seperate outs

4 from direct outs on channels 1 - 4
2 from the main buss (pan one channel hard left, the other hard right) on channels 5, 6
2 from aux buss (same panning as above) on channels 7,8
 
just to add....

I use a Mackie 1402 VLZ PRO in front of my 10/10 and it works great.......
I run everything into the sound card then aux bus back out on
11-12 and 13-14 and feed the main line out to my KRKs that way....it frees up the control room as a headphone fader....

works great,
Joe
 
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