Fender Series 3000 Owners Manual - Page 40

• Submixing With Your 3000 Mixer Block Diagram Closeup In Example 1, a Fender 4000 Series Mixer is used as a submixer. In Example 2, submixing is performed within the 3000 Mixer (no external submixer is used). What is Submixing? Sometimes it is useful to take a group of microphones (like drum mics or background vocals) and mix them together, through a separate fader, into the main mix. This process is called "submixing." Submixing With an External Mixer Using an external mixer is probably the most common and most desirable way to submix. In the Example 1 block diagram, we have shown a Fender 4000 Series Mixer because it has basically the same features as your 3000 Mixer (the 4000 Series have no power amplifiers). In this example, the Program Left and Right faders on the 4000 Mixer become "sub-masters" for the sources (mics or other inputs) connected to the 4000 Mixer. The Program Left and Right faders on your 3000 Mixer are the "master" faders and these faders control all Input Channels on both mixers. Submixing Within a 3000 Mixer When you have only a few inputs to submix, it may be easier (and less costly) to do submixing within your 3000 Mixer. In the Example 2 block diagram, we show the Monitor 1 mix used as a submix. To use your 3000 Mixer this way, make the connections shown. Then, on the Input Channels you will use for the submix, turn the Input Channel faders all the way down. This keeps these Input Channels out of the Program Left and Right mix buses (until after they have been submixed). You then control the individual level of these Input Channels using their Monitor 1 controls. Do not use the faders on these Input Channels. The last Input Channel is used, in this example, as the "sub-master," so its fader is the sub-master fader. You can also use the Pan control on this last Input Channel to pan the sub-mixed channels into the Program Left and Right buses, This setup will not work correctly if the "post-fader modification" has been performed on your 3000 Mixer. (The post-fader modification must be performed by a qualified service technician.) Alternately, you could bring the submixed channels from the Mon 1 Out jack back into the Aux In jack through a 24dB pad. This connection would free the last Input Channel for other uses. Other submixing connections are possible. For example, in a monophonic mix, you could pan a group of Input Channels all the way left and the rest of the Input Channels all the way right. Then patch the Left Pre Amp Out back into the Right Direct In jack. Now, the Program Left fader is a sub-master for those Input Channels which were panned left and the Program Right fader is the master fader for all the Input Channels. In a similar way, you could do a monitor submix by patching the Mon 1 Out jack into the Mon 2 Direct In jack. Input Channels to be submixed are mixed into the Monitor 1 mix bus with their Monitor 1 controls. The Monitor 2 controls on the submixed Input Channels are kept all the way down. (The rest of the Input Channels use their Monitor 2 control with their Monitor 1 control all the way down.) The Monitor 1 fader, then, is the submaster, and the Monitor 2 fader is the Monitor master fader. Submixing Example 1 Fender 4208 OU •: •: •• • ii i/i Submixer Program Right Output Program Left Output 0 O 0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 '0 0 0 OlLo 0 0 0 n ixe 6 0 0 0 0 0 OOOO O OOO O O Submixing Example 2 .L. O .ii..- \T- n'CT 0 O 0 O Powered Mixer Model 3216 900 00 -oob boo 0 0 -:. :5 0 0 iD L:L5 - 0- 0 0 O O O b -6 - 0 0 0 Use a to W T/S phone plug patch cable. S To Mon Out T To Hi Z In 38