Mixers
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is home to a rich jambalaya of jazz, blues, rock, zydeco, metal, and folk music, as well as a purveyor of pro-audio products, PreSonus, that has been making affordable professional audio products for studio and stage for more than 20 years. In 2009, the company turned a lot of heads with the release of the StudioLive series of digital mixers. For the first time, musicians and engineers could get a well-equipped digital mixer at a fraction of the cost of most other brands.
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Zoom has a history of packing an impressive list of features and functionality into a small footprint and the LiveTrak L-12 digital console is no exception. Designed for the person who needs a board advanced enough to meet the demands of studio-based production and robust and versatile enough to use in live stage applications such as concerts or conferences, the LiveTrak L-12 offers everything from microphone preamps and built-in effects to
If you don’t enjoy lugging around bushels of gear for live shows, recording sessions, practice sessions, and podcasts, the Zoom LiveTrack L-12 digital mixer will raise an interested eyebrow or two. Designed to be flexible, simple, and space-saving, the L-12 offers 16 built-in effects, nine mixer scenes, multiple monitor outputs, and multi-channel recording and mixing capabilities. All of this fits in a compact unit about the size of a
Denon DJ raised the bar for professional DJ equipment with the release of its Prime Series Eco-System, which includes the X1800 Prime DJ Club Mixer, SC5000 Prime DJ Media Player, and
When I first started mixing, I had an interface and a pair of monitors, but something didn’t sound right. The audio wasn’t as loud, full, and rounded as I knew it could be. I did some research, and it seemed my connections were mismatched: My interface sported unbalanced outputs, while the monitors boasted balanced inputs. Herein lay the problem, right?
Right—but also wrong. As it was explained to me by the pro-audio dealer, the primary problem turned out to be a matter of signal level (-10 dBV versus +4 dBu). Balanced versus Unbalanced
In the following video, Rob Rives demonstrates the Presonus FaderPort 8, and how it can be a useful addition to any producer/engineer’s inventory. This video explores the functions, controls, and features of the FaderPort 8, including setting up the controller with different DAWs including ProTools, Studio One, and Logic. We showcase the transport functions and demonstrate how the unit works seamlessly with the software. Rives also shows you how to
As mixing engineers, one of our biggest challenges is communicating width and depth in a stereo track. It’s tricky for loads of reasons. For one, what we’re doing is essentially a fiction: When you listen to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on an iPod, you are not at the Philharmonic—yet it’s often the engineer’s job to create the sound of the orchestra, from left to right, front to back, and in the appropriate environment.
Furthermore, the technical concepts we employ to achieve this fiction (dispersion relations, the Haas effect) can be difficult
Perhaps you started with a small, self-contained PA and need better quality with greater output. Or perhaps your audience has grown and you are looking to add to your setup, or you need better coverage and more control. Maybe you started with an inexpensive analog mixer and are looking to make the jump to a digital board. If you have made an initial investment into a sound system and are looking to make some upgrades, here’s a short list of ideas that might be worth investigating.
Mixers
If you are thinking about upgrading your analog console
Today, Roland revealed their latest HD/AV mixer, the VR-4HD. Designed for one-operator use, the VR-4HD combines a digital audio mixer, video switcher, multi-viewer touch screen, and USB 3.0 video/audio streaming interface into a portable, compact form. Live HD productions in fields such as education, religion, corporate, sports, or training can be
Time is of the essence in Part 3 of this series—time-based effects, that is! Watch as Sonic Scoop’s Justin Colletti manipulates reverb and delay on a vocal track to craft a sense of ambiance, folding in classic slapback echoes and creating unique reverberations out of repeating delays. We hope you enjoy the video, and invite you to view the wide selection of other instructional and informative videos at BandH.com.
Sit down with Sonic Scoop’s Justin Colletti for this extended look at how to shape a vocal with EQ, dynamics manipulation, and automation. Some tricks Colletti employs in this video include multiple compression stages, level-riding, and harmonic distortion. We hope you enjoy the video, and invite you to view the wide selection of other instructional and informative videos at BandH.com.
In this video, Sonic Scoop’s Justin Colletti gives you several tips for greatly improving vocals in a mix, including how to use commercial references to gauge how loud to make a vocal track, when to use automation, what kinds of time-based effects to employ, and which frequency bands to concentrate on while applying EQ. We hope you enjoy the video, and invite you to view the wide selection of other instructional and informative videos at BandH.com.
Looking for a versatile mixing system for live and studio that’s equally at home in houses of worship, broadcast facilities, live venues, touring rigs, and recording studios? Check out the new PreSonus StudioLive RML32AI and
Denon DJ, a company long renowned for its DJ-related equipment, has just dropped the MC7000 DJ Controller—and we at B&H are happy to carry it. The controller features 4-channel Serato DJ capability and dual USB connections. What’s more, the MC7000 comprises two separate USB interfaces in one unit, and thus, empowers two DJs to
Sitting in New York City’s Legendary Sterling Sound, John Congleton talks with Sonic Scoop’s Justin Colletti about the mixing process. Together they cover mixing by instinct, focusing on the big picture, using the rough mix to your advantage, listening to music while you’re mixing, and working on the vocal sooner rather than later. We hope you enjoy the video, and invite you to view the wide selection of other instructional and informative videos at BandH.com.