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4 Basic Mixing and Routing
4.6 FlexMixes
StudioLive™ Series III
Owner’s Manual
4.6.1.1 Creating Aux Mixes
Creating custom monitor mixes is critical. If musicians can’t hear themselves or their
bandmates, their performance will suffer. A monitor mix can be mono or stereo. Most
often, an individual live monitor mix is mono and is sent to a floor-wedge or sidefill
monitor (the obvious exception being in-ear monitor systems). A studio monitor mix
is usually stereo because it is sent to a headphone amplifier that requires both a left
and a right-channel input. In both cases, the function of the aux bus is the same.
As an example, let’s create a mono monitor mix on FlexMix 1.
1. Press the Mix 1 button in the Mix Select section to access settings for Aux
mix 1. The faders move to show send levels to Aux 1 for each channel in
your mix.
2. Ask the musician(s) what signals they would like to hear in their monitors,
and use their requests as a starting point, adjusting the faders for the
relevant channels to create a monitor mix.
3. Press the Flex Fader Select button to access the Fat Channel processing for
the monitor mix output. This can be useful for eliminating feedback in a
monitor. EQ can also be used to increase the presence of an instrument by
boosting that particular frequency range without necessarily boosting the
send level in the mix. This is great for getting the lead guitar to cut through
in the guitarist’s monitor mix and to provide that extra rumble in the
bassist’s mix.
4. Move the Master fader to adjust the overall level of the monitor mix.
5. You can listen to the monitor mix you’re creating in your headphones or
control room monitors by pressing the Edit button in the Monitors control
section.
6. Select Monitor or Phones on the touchscreen, then touch the Aux mix
you’re working on at the moment (Mix 1, in this example).
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