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4 Basic Mixing and Routing
4.7 FX Buses
StudioLive™ Series III
Owner’s Manual
4.6.3.1 Creating a Front Fill Mix
In some venues, the house PA doesn’t cover the front rows effectively. This can be
especially problematic in the band on stage is using in-ear monitors instead of floor
wedges. Without floor wedges the people seated in the first few rows are actually
“behind” the PA because they will hear more stage volume from the instruments on
stage than from the front-of-house system. This problem can be solved by placing a
few low profile speakers on the front edge of the stage to cover the first few rows of
the audience.
You will want to blend the Main Left/Right mix at a low level with the source signals
that may be difficult to hear, like the vocal and direct bass channels.
4.7 FX Buses
FX Buses act just like Aux mixes, but rather than feeding an output, they feed one of
the StudioLive’s internal effects processors. This allows you to customize the amount
of a channel’s signal that is being effected. Your StudioLive has four FX buses, each
one feeding one the four internal bus FX processors: FX A, B, C, and D.
Pre/Post Channel Sends
Like Aux mixes, you can select the send position for each channel that is routed to
an FX Mix. By default, all FX buses are set to Post. This places the send of every input
channel to each FX bus after the fader, limiter, EQ, and compressor, Polarity Invert
switch, high-pass filter, and gate. See Section 4.6.1 for more information on the other
available settings.
4.7.1 Creating Internal Bus FX Mixes
There are at least two main advantages to creating an effects mix instead of inserting
an effect on a channel. First, several channels can be sent to a single processor. In
addition to greatly simplifying the number of parameters you have to control, this
can help to create a cohesive sound for your mix. Second, you can vary the level sent
from each channel to the processor, rather than patching the output directly into the
effect. This allows you to add a lot or a little of an effect to any given channel.
The four internal effects buses are used much in the same way the Aux buses are
used to create monitor mixes. Let’s create a mix for FX A:
1. Press the FX A button in the Mix Select section to access settings for the FX
A mix. The faders move to show FX A send levels for each channel in
your mix.
2. For each channel that you wish to send to FX A, move the related fader to
the desired level. Increasing the fader level increase how processed, or “wet”,
any given channel will sound.
3. Using the Fat Channel, you can apply Compression and EQ to the FX A
Output. This can help quell unwanted resonances and make the effected
signal sound more polished.
4. Move the Flex fader to adjust the overall level of the effected output of FX A.
5. The FX A bus has a return in every FlexMix as well as the Mains. To adjust the
FX A Return in any mix, press its Mix Select button and navigate to the “FX A”
channel.