Members pktaskes Posted November 19, 2006 Members Share Posted November 19, 2006 Would it be OK to route Aux sends (pre fade) via balanced 1/4 patch cords into a channel (say 15 and 16 on my Soundcraft FX16 as we have two unique monitor mixes) to tweak my monitors' highs and mids? I'd then run each channel panned hard left and right out to the Sub Outs. There are times and certain rooms where this would be useful but not a big enough problem to add yet another piece of equipment to the rack. Obviously I have to watch feeding back signal into the sends but why else is this a bad (or good) idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ashivraj Posted November 19, 2006 Members Share Posted November 19, 2006 Channel strip EQs are too wide to be of any use. Feedback tends to be particular frequencies (rather than a broad 'area' in the spectrum), so you'd end up losing a whole lot more than you bargained for. It might work if you had fully parametric EQ, which I'm pretty sure the FX16 doesn't. Maybe you could use your method as a basic HPF... AS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted November 19, 2006 Members Share Posted November 19, 2006 Not a very useful solution IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pktaskes Posted November 19, 2006 Author Members Share Posted November 19, 2006 Not so much for feebback control but as a general enhancement to the sound. Sometimes a little more high end sparkle in the monitors makes a nice difference to the acoustic guitar and vocal as well as trimming some mids out if too harsh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members witesol Posted November 19, 2006 Members Share Posted November 19, 2006 I've done that trick before when feedback wasn't an issue but I needed a little tone control. On the Mackie I used to own some years ago I'd take the aux send into a channel then direct out of that channel. You know what's a cool sound? When you forget to check if the same aux send is up on the recieving channel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pktaskes Posted November 19, 2006 Author Members Share Posted November 19, 2006 Originally posted by witesol I've done that trick before when feedback wasn't an issue but I needed a little tone control. On the Mackie I used to own some years ago I'd take the aux send into a channel then direct out of that channel. You know what's a cool sound? When you forget to check if the same aux send is up on the recieving channel yeah - tone control. I HATE a flat, boomy or tinny monitor mix. Sometimes I'd like to be able to tweak it if its really bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members roguefly Posted November 20, 2006 Members Share Posted November 20, 2006 We use the same desk and do exactly that for our monitors. We use the direct out jack from channel 15&16 as these are post fader. Watch out if you use the inbuilt effects, we kept flooding our mons with reverb till we sussed it out (but we are beginners). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pktaskes Posted November 22, 2006 Author Members Share Posted November 22, 2006 Originally posted by roguefly We use the same desk and do exactly that for our monitors. We use the direct out jack from channel 15&16 as these are post fader. Watch out if you use the inbuilt effects, we kept flooding our mons with reverb till we sussed it out (but we are beginners). ahh...forgot the direct out was post fade. Saves us from using the sub outs. Thanks buddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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