Alesis USB2.0 Traditional Mixing, Simple Live Setup, Using Additional External Audio Sources

4Traditional Mixing

Your MultiMix 8 USB2.0 can be used in a wide variety of ways in both live and recording applications. You have several options for bringing sound into and out of the board. And when it’s brought in, you can route it to various parts of the mixer for certain desired effects, or even send it to an external processor or tape deck and back. To give you some ideas for different mixing scenarios, here are descriptions of a few common applications for the MultiMix 8 USB2.0.

Simple Live Setup

In this setup, you connect your instruments and microphones to the mono and stereo channels.

Set the levels for each of your microphones and line-level sources as explained earlier.

You can select one on-board effect and control its level with the AUX B knob for each channel. Or you can use an external effects processor by sending a signal to the external unit via the AUX SEND A and returning it via AUX RETURN A.

You can plug an additional effects processor into the AUX B SEND and RETURN jacks as well, but this will disable the internal effects.

In a live setup, you most likely will connect the MAIN MIX OUT to a PA system amplifier and the CTRL RM OUT to a stage monitor amplifier for monitoring purposes.

Using Additional External Audio

Sources

The MultiMix gives you a few extra audio inputs in addition to the mic and line inputs. If you want to bring external audio sources into a recording or live mix, you can do it in one of two ways:

Using the 2-TRACK IN, you can add a tape deck, ADAT, CD player, USB2.0 audio stream from a computer, or other source to the mix. The 2-TRACK IN also can be used to entertain the audience with a CD as the band is setting up for a live show.

The AUX RETURNS can be used as additional audio inputs when you are not using them for effects.

Audio coming into the MultiMix from a computer over the USB2.0 connection is routed to the 2-TRACK IN.

You can use the RCA jacks of the 2-TRACK IN at the same time as audio is playing back from a computer, but you must adjust the relative levels of each input from outside the MultiMix.

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