Mackie Onyx 1640i Owner's Manual - Page 23
Aux Sends 1-6 To Fw 9-14, Master Aux Returns 1-4, Efx To Mon, Aux Return 3 Send To Main/subs, Subs 1
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58. AUX SENDS 1-6 to FW 9-14 This switch allows you to send a copy of the aux send 1-6 outputs via FireWire to a computer. The FireWire output is affected by the channel aux send and master aux send controls. For example, you can set up a software effects processor as follows: • Set any aux send (auxes 1-6) in post mode, by pressing the post switch in the aux master section. • With 'aux send 1-6 to FW 9-14' engaged, aux sends 1-6 are available for your computer via FireWire signals 9-14. (Mixer channels 9-14 are no longer available to send via FireWire.) • Pass aux 1-6 through your audio production software running effects plug-ins. • Return the processed output to mixer channels 1 and 2 (input switches set to FW 1 and FW 2). • Alternatively bring the processed sounds into the control room (engage FW 1-2) and add it to the main mix (engage assign to main mix). • You can even use the computer as up to six separate mono in / stereo out processors. Have aux 1 go into one plug-in, aux 2 into a different one, and so on. The stereo outputs of all plug-ins are combined back into the stereo stream coming back in to the mixer. Performance will vary based on system hardware. 59. MASTER AUX RETURNS 1-4 These four controls set the overall level of effects received from the stereo aux return 1-4 inputs [18]. These controls range from off to +10 db of gain when fully clockwise, to compensate for low-level effects. Signals passing through these controls go directly to the main mix bus where they are combined with the other channels. 60. EFX TO MON These controls route the signal from aux returns 1 and 2 to the aux 5 and 6 sends. This allows you to use an external effects device, like a reverb or delay, exclusively for the monitors. When these controls are turned up, the stereo effects return signal is summed to mono and combined with the signals coming from all the channel aux 5 and aux 6 send controls. If you want to add reverb or delay to the stage monitor mixes, these are the knobs for you. Operating independently of their respectively numbered aux returns level controls, these knobs are exactly the same as the aux 5 and aux 6 knobs found in the channel strip. These two knobs feed their respective stereo aux return signals to a mono summing amp and then: to aux 5 feeds aux return 1 to aux send 5 master, and to aux 6 feeds aux return 2 to aux send 6 master. They are off when turned fully down, and provide up to 10 dB gain turned fully up. 61. AUX RETURN 3 SEND TO MAIN/SUBS With this button up, aux return 3 behaves like the other aux returns - it delivers a stereo signal, regulated by its level knob, to the main mix. When you push this button in, the aux return 3 signals are removed from the main mix buses and sent to the subs 1-2 / 3-4 switch, which diverts the signal once more. See below. 62. SUBS 1-2/3-4 If the aux return 3 send to main/subs button [61] is up, the subs 1-2 / 3-4 button does absolutely nothing. Let us now assume it is pushed down. Aux return 3's stereo signal will not be sent to the main mix, but to the subgroup faders 1 and 2 (subs 1-2 / 3-4 button up) or to subgroup faders 3 and 4 (subs 1-2 / 3-4 button down). Let us now assume that you made a stereo drum submix on subgroup faders 1 and 2, so you can ride those two faders instead of the seven channels that the drums came from. Subgroup fader 1 has its assign to main mix left button [70] engaged and subgroup fader has its assign to main mix right button [70] engaged, blending the drum submix back into the main mix [73]. The drum channels are also sending signals to your reverb via the aux sends and the reverb outputs are patched into aux return 3. So far, so good! Even though you could send aux return 3 directly to the main mix (aux return 3 send to main / subs button up), you do not want to. Instead, engage the aux return 3 send to main / subs switch and make sure the subs 1-2 / 3-4 switch is up. Now the reverb return is blended into the drum submix, and as you ride the two subgroup faders, the reverb level will follow. Why do we want that? Because if you had just sent the reverb directly to the main mix (aux return 3 send to main / subs button up) and you did a drum fadeout using the subgroup faders 1 and 2, the "dry" signals would fade out, but the "wet" signals would continue. All you would hear is the drum reverb (the "wet"), and none of the original drum signals (the "dry"). That's because the reverb is being fed by the channel's aux send [35], and they have no idea that you have pulled down the subgroup faders. That's why we added these switches. Owner's Manual 23