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In Reply to: Re: Compressor usage. posted by Mike on March 2, 2003 at 15:50:50:
It depends on your patching arrangement. The best way to compress the vocal mics only is to route them all to a submix fader. Patch the compressor to the submix via the submix insert jack, which sends all the mic channels to the compressor and then brings the compressor output back to the board. This way the individual mic channel faders remain active.
If your mixer has no submixes take the outs from each mic channel via a pre-fader aux send buss to the compressor, with the compressor out going to a free input channel. That input channel now becomes a submix for all vocals. You have to use the pre-send pots to control the level of each mic, leaving the faders off. You now use the ‘submix’ channel fader as a master vocal level, and you can also use that channel to send all the mics simultaneously to an effects processor. If you have no free input channels you can use an aux return to do the job, as it sounds like you’re now doing.
The bane of mixing is patching multiple DSP boxes, which is complicated and time consuming and can add a lot of noise to the system, not to mention having to carry a lot of gear. If you plan on upgrading your board someday seriously consider a digital board, as they eliminate the need for any patching and are also absolutely studio dead quiet. They also make outboard effects and DSPs unnecessary, making set up and tear down a very simple proposition. I can set up my entire PA system for a four-piece band, with everything mic’d, in half an hour, main speakers, monitors and all. Even better, tear down takes no longer.
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Follow Ups
- Re: Compressor usage. - Bill Fitzmaurice 06:55:20 03/03/03 (3)
- Re: Compressor usage. - Roland 08:17:29 03/03/03 (2)
- Re: Compressor usage. - Mike 09:10:47 03/03/03 (1)
- Re: Compressor usage. - Roland 15:19:00 03/03/03 (0)
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