Mixer / Aux Send question (live, not recording)

[Armistice]

So seeing we don't have a Live forum, I thought I'd pop this in to the Newbies...

Band = 2 x acoustic guitarist / singers

I've seen a few artists lately doing things with looping pedals, presumably the Boss RC-20 as that's about the only one I've seen this side of the pond.

This is a mono pedal - has both instrument and mic 1/4 inch inputs and a single out.

If I get one of these pedals and put both my mic & guitar into it, I'm stuck with a single out and my voice / guitar welded together. Not desirable. And then the other guy can't do any looping as I have the pedal. He could buy his own, of course, but I'm wondering if I can hook it up via our mixer's Aux Send / Return and just by twidding the mixer, route whichever instrument / voice combo I want to the pedal, which could be operated by either of us...

Likely to work, do you think?

The next pedal up has more configurable capability, but these things are really expensive over here and I'm not completely sure that our potential use justifies that much love...

I should know the answer to this question, of course, but I'm not really across the ins and outs of mixers at this level.

Thoughts?

It's a Yamaha MX series 12 channel mixer, if that's important...

Cheers

 

[witzendoz]

Short answer is yes it will (should) work.

Pick one of the sends (post fader / eq if available) on the mixer and connect that to the input of the pedal. If you have enough channels, take the pedal output to a channel line input and then you can easily turn the channel up / down / on /off and even eq the return signal. If you are short of channels the effects return would work but not as flexible.

Using the send you can select which or both vocals and / or which or both guitars to send to the pedal.

p.s. where in Australia? near me?

Cheers
Alan.

 

[stevieb]

Not sure about the Boss looper, but my Digitech JamMan (and most others, I think) allow you to layer loop upon loop, as long as there is enough memory. You lay down your guitar part as a loop, layer your vocals over that, layer HIS vocals over that. You can pull them back out, one at at time (but only in reverse order of laying them down).

The jam man also has instrument and mic inputs, which can be used at the same time. That might help if you turned off the mic/guitar in turn.

 

[Armistice]

p.s. where in Australia? near me?

Not quite Alan... a mere 5 hour plane flight to the east... Sydney! Never actually been to Freo, Perth is as close as I got...

I wish I could borrow one of these things to play with it... $1000 for the RC-50 and about $550 for the RC-20 - hell of a lot to spend on something that I'm not entirely sure I have a use for live...

I might try hooking up a straight delay pedal using aux send as the closest approximation I can come up with, and see how that works, and how easy it is to switch on/off.

Thanks for the answers...