ALESIS MULTIMIX USB2.0 - Manual (Page 23)

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Traditional Mixing
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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.