Mixer Help for the Basic Mixer Knowledge Deficient

Posted on Feb 02, 2005 10:18 am
jenkinstp
Extreme Recording Novice
Member Since: Sep 08, 2003

I'm a recovering hard disk recorder and am trying to move over to computer based recording but it's been a slow learning curve. I recently added a compressor (Alesis 3630 I think) and a mixer (service.bfast.com/bfast/c...mp;bfmtype=gear ) to my setup and I'm having some trouble with some basic mixer concepts.

When I first got the compressor I was borrowing a friend's mixer (service.bfast.com/bfast/c...mp;bfmtype=gear ). I think I understood how to hook that up. I had my condensor mic going into input 1 and had a cable going from the fx send to the compressor and another cable back from the compressor into the aux return of the mixer. This seemed to work fine and I got the compression to come through.

The mixer I bought does not have an aux return input (perhaps I bought the wrong one?) so I'm a little confused on how to set it up. The manual said something about bringing the signal back into another one of the inputs but that doesn't seem to be working. Having it set up that way is just not giving me the compression results I had before. I have to have the volume way down on the mixer input I'm bringing it back into or else it makes this horrible clicking noise when I try to sing into the mic.

So anyway... sorry for the long post... looking for advice on how to set this mixer up the right way. Thanks!

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