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Workshop
M-16DX 16-Channel Digital Mixer
Live Mixing with the M-16DX
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About the Workshop Booklets General Strategy The EDIROL M-16DX 16-Channel Digital Mixer delivers the power of digital Front and Center mixing to musicians at an incredibly affordable price. This crystal-clear 24-bit digital mixer supports sample rates up to 96 kHz, and it’s extremely flexible, with a wide range of analog and digital inputs and outputs, and effects. The M-16DX’s USB connectivity makes it an ideal partner for a computer-based digital audio workstation, and features such its p
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Cabling Connecting to the House System While the M-16DX’s inputs can work with balanced or unbalanced cables, they’re designed to work with balanced cables. Balanced cables provide optimal noise-rejection, so if you can use them, do—they’ll help you avoid problems at a gig. Typically, you’ll want to send audio from the M-16DX to your front-of-house speaker system by connecting the M-16DX’s MAIN OUT L and R jacks to inputs on your PA’s power amp. If you want to mix in mono, use only the Ba
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Performer Hookup Example If you want to connect a bass directly to the M-16DX without a direct box—and you’re not using Inputs 1 and 2 for something else as we are To give you an idea of how you can use the M-16DX’s inputs, let’s talk about here—you can connect it to the I/O module’s front-panel LINE IN 1 or 2 how you’d hook up a small group with two singing acoustic guitarists with jack, and then push in the selected jack’s Hi-Z switch. pickups on their guitars, a keyboard player, a bass
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• the Alt bus—to create a few different types of mixes. You can make the performance. To configure Aux 1 as a post send, set the AUX 1 PRE switch to its up position. • a click-track feed—that allows your rhythm-keeper to play to a metronome click only he/she can hear. Creating an Aux 1 Monitor Mix • a main mix with added performer-only elements—such as spoken • Press the AUX 1 button so it lights—to set the cues from one musician to another. channel-strip AUX 1 knobs so that they send • a m
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• Control the overall level of the monitor mix—with the Creating a Monitor Mix with Aux Bus 2 AUX 2 MASTER knob. The Aux 2 bus normally sends input channel signals to the M-16DX’s A reminder: You can configure the channel-strip AUX internal effects. When you use it instead for a monitor mix, the SEND 1 knobs as Aux 1 sends or Aux 2 sends at any time internal effect processor is automatically turned off. by pressing the AUX 1 or AUX 2 button, as desired. Sending the Aux 2 Signal to the Stage
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Using the CONTROL ROOM outputs for an Alt bus monitor mix gives you: 3 In the PHONES/CONTROL ROOM area of the mixer, press in the ALT button, and make sure the MUTE MAIN MIX button isn’t lit so that • an overall Alt bus gain control—using the PHONES/CONTROL ROOM both the Alt bus and main mix travel through the CONTROL ROOM L knob. and R outputs to your performers. • routing flexibility—using the MUTE MAIN MIX button and the PHONES/ CONTROL ROOM ALT and FX buttons. Pressed in Therefore, we re
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Some Live-Mixing Thoughts The End Here are some tips for building a successful live mix with the M-16DX. We hope you’ve found this workshop helpful. You’ll find other M-16DX Workshop booklets available for downloading at • Keep onstage volumes to a minimum—When onstage amps are turned www.RolandUS.com/EDIROL. up too high, you’ll have little chance of getting the mix under control, with quieter elements such as vocals being hard to bring out in the mix. Talk to your performers about keeping
