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4 Basic Mixing and Routing
4.6 FlexMixes
StudioLive™ Series III
Owner’s Manual
4.6.2.1 Creating Instrument Subgroups
Grouping individual instruments that create a section in your mix has obvious
advantages: The entire group can be muted or soloed, brought up or down in a mix,
and faded in or out for a more polished intro or outro. Because subgroups can also be
processed by the Fat Channel, some common groups are drums, backing vocals, horn
sections, and string sections. Drums are a classic application for subgroup mixing.
While we’ll use a drum group in this particular example, these principles can be
applied when grouping any type of instrument section.
In this example, our drums will be connected to the StudioLive as follows:
• Channel 1: Kick
• Channel 2: Snare Top
• Channel 3: Snare Bottom
• Channel 4: Floor Tom
• Channel 5: Tom 1
• Channel 6: Tom 2
• Channel 7: Overhead Left
• Channel 8: Overhead Right
• Channel 9: Hi-Hat
We will create a stereo subgroup by first making both FlexMix 1 and 2 Subgroups and
linking them to create a stereo bus.
1. Press the Mix 1 Select button.
2. In the Touch Screen, press the Settings gear.
3. Press the Subgroup button under FlexMix Mode.
4. Enable all four Stereo Link Options.
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