sound engineer feels when you come at her with your 12 output cables.
We figure that if you bought an LM-3204 for stage use, you already have an equipment rack just about full of fine electronic musical technol- ogy. So, we designed the LM-3204 to be 19" wide and a mere 5 rack units high. To fit in your rack.
The LM-3204 will let you submix all your instruments in stereo, add your effects and provide stage amp, sound reinforcement, monitor or recording feeds. Not only does it make the impossible possible and clean up that nest of cables, but it leaves the balance, EQ and effects blend in your hands, right there in your rack.
All of your electronic instruments (and CD players and DAT players) can patch directly into the LM-3204 stereo inputs. Guitar and bass preamps, whether rack-mount units or built into the amp heads, can patch in here too. If you have a mono instrument, simply plug its output into the Left (MONO) jack of the LM-3204 channel input you select.
Use the LM-3204 main Left and Right outputs to connect to the main house PA mixer, or feed them directly into your stage amp. In fact, you can connect to both at once, using the main 1/4" outputs for the house mixer and the RCA Tape outputs (which carry the same sig- nal) for your amplifier.
You can use the Control Room outputs to
feed a small amp next to you, if you’d like. This output will also allow you to Solo various LM-3204 inputs to check MIDI patches, verify presets, send a click track (via AUX Return 4’s “AUX Return to Control Room Only” switch) to yourself only, and so on, without affecting the main outputs. You can also use headphones on the Phones output.
Effects such as reverb, delay or chorus can easily be patched into the AUX send and return circuits in the LM-3204. Gates and compressors will usually be connected to either a stereo pair of channel strip Insert jacks (channel 1–4 inserts for mics, drum machines, guitars…) or to the main Left and Right Insert jacks. After you’ve adjusted the compressor or gate settings as you want, adjust the effect’s overall gain for unity, so that the level of your signal is about the same with the insert device in or out of the circuit.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT SUBMIXER: STUDIO
MIDI suites and project studios run into the same problems as large stage setups: racks full of synthesizers and samplers eating up all the mixing console inputs.
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So, use your LM-3204 as a musical instrument submixer. Connect your banks of instruments into the stereo inputs of the LM-3204, and patch the main Left and Right outputs into a pair of inputs on your main console. Suddenly, more mixing inputs appear!
EFFECTS SUBMIXER
And as long as we’re discovering more inputs for your studio, consider your main console auxiliary returns: do you have enough? An LM-3204 can give you an additional 16 stereo returns with the added bonus of EQ on the returns.
Keep the routing of the sends from your main console the same; but run all your many effects’ stereo returns through the LM-3204, and patch the LM-3204 Left and Right outputs back into one pair of auxiliary returns (or into a pair of channel inputs).
MAIN STUDIO MIXER
There’s no reason why you can’t use the LM-3204 as your main mixer. Not everybody’s in love with adjusting mixes with rotary controls, but it’s not hard to get used to (a gazillion MS1202 mixers owners can’t be all wrong). And remember, the LM-3204 has the same legendary sound quality that’s allowed our CR-1604 to be used for tracking and mixing of all sorts of hits. Plus, we’ll send you a free T-shirt if you send us a CD or cassette mixed on the LM-3204 (see page 39 for details).
CLUB SOUND REINFORCEMENT MIXER
For a small act with entirely electronic instruments and only two vocalists, the LM-3204 is an extremely affordable, compact and easy-to-operate sound reinforcement mixer.
Plug your mics into the two preamps in the rear and patch the preamp outputs into a pair of channel strips, using the Left (MONO) jacks. Now connect your drum machines, keyboards and samplers to more inputs. Connect your effects to the AUX sends and returns, and patch the main Left and Right (or Control Room) outputs to your power amplifier. Turn on the spotlights, smoke generator and bubble ma- chine, and you’re ready.
You can use the same setup to record a demo of your band. Simply connect a stereo recorder to the Tape In and Tape Out jacks. To check out what you’re recording, plug in some headphones (or use the Control Room outputs) and press the Tape Monitor switch. You can record and check playback as you are performing, if you want, without affecting what your audience is hearing (unless a bit of button-pushing gets you off tempo).