Live Sound & Production

[ckcondon]

Had a bit of a disagreement with a bandmate this weekend over the Aux out control for monitors.

After setting gain for all the mics,I typically set the Aux pre dial at 12 O'clock and then bring up each channel aux send to taste in the monitors.

My bandmate (who also has a mixwiz) says that the aux out unity setting is actually at 3 o'clock. There is a mark at 3 o'clock on all the aux knobs, but all the other dials center at 12 o'clock.

Couldn't find specifics in the manual, but as a habit on all the boards I've owned, 12 is usually unity.

What am I missing here? Thanks!

[RoadRanger]

Yup, unity is at 3 o'clock on those. Same on the channel aux sends.

[ckcondon]

Thanks man... I had no idea. Guess I'll be re doing my in-ear mix next gig!

[race81]

haha....no wnder I always thought i should be getting more volume out of the aux's.....good info thanks for sharing!

[agedhorse]

Note that unity is just a term... after only 1 input's worth of signal, unity has a completely different meaning. I think a better way to describe it as the "nominal" position though if you understand what the concept of unity is, then "niminal unity" might be ok.

[ckcondon]

Andy, how did I know you would call me out on my use of "unity"? LOL! Just figured it was the most common term everyone would relate to.

[agedhorse]

It is Indeed a common term, the problem is that it means different things under different conditions. It can be very complicated when the term unity varies with level of with the number of inputs. Nominal and summing carry a kind of special meaning.

[loco_p_man]

Andy, what are the implications for MixWiz users of this ? Should we default to having the aux send master at 3 o'clock ?

As I am sure it depends, on what would it depend ?

[agedhorse]

the 3:00 position is likely fine under most conditions, BUT if you have all inputs in operation and being sent to the aux bus at higher levels, you may want to back this down a bit.

[TimmyP]

I usually run them about 1:30.

If none of the summing buses are clipping, I would not worry about it.