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Member Since: Apr 13, 2004

i'm sorry to be asking you guys for this much help, but at the ripe age of 20 i have lost all of hair trying to understand how to hook all of this up.

i have a 4 bus mixer, 2 dual compressors, delta 66 and some mics(condenser/dynamic) i need to run through the compression.

i dont understand how to compress the mics while still supplying phantom power and how to then send out to the delta 66 (post compression) while still being able to send the main outs(post compression) to an amp and some speakers.


i would really appreciate some help here. you guys are so smart and this is such a great resource!

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Lost for words with all to say.
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Since: Sep 12, 2003


Jul 30, 2004 12:49 pm

Let me take a stap at this. I don't really have complete knowledge of this but maybe this will help out. Have the mics go to the board, naturally, and the board will give it the phantom power. Do you have inserts on the channels? This is where I might be wrong, but I believe that is where you hook up the compressor. Then, have the it go through a bus to your soundcard.

Prince CZAR-ming
Member
Since: Apr 08, 2004


Jul 30, 2004 02:12 pm

that way there won't be individual tracks going into the computer

it would help if we knew what mixer you have, and if it has individual outs for each channel. Also, if there's more channels than microphones, then maybe you could go out one channel, into a compressor, out the compressor into another channel and then channel insert it to the sound card.

unless you wanted to only have the mixed sound, then the sub outs, or a stereo bus to the soundcard would work.

Do U Beleev in D-Flo?
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Since: Jun 15, 2004


Jul 30, 2004 02:16 pm

Inserts would be the best way to do it, and looking at your profile I see you have the UB2442, which has inserts on the mono channels. An alternative would be to bring the mics into channels, then bring the output of those channels to the compressor. Bring the compressor outputs back into the mixer in seperate channels, and assign those channels to a bus and out to the soundcard.

pSyChOTTic-da caps spell me name
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Since: Aug 07, 2004


Aug 07, 2004 09:06 pm

Yeh, what Keegan said. An important thing to remember is that there are sound shapers (EQ, Compression, Exciters) and sound colorers (Reverbs, Chorus, Delay, Flagers, etc.). On most occasions, shapers should be used on the total signal (ie, insert points), whereas sound colorers should be applied to the signal via auxilary sends and returns. Not always, but most of the time.

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