If a board claims to have 8 aux, but the first four are on two knobs, with a switch to route each knob to respective pairs, does this mean the board really only has 6 aux? Crest century gt.
Ok, I understand mixer math, and I always read the full manual, that's why I'm asking right now. Just to humor me, could you think of an application where two sends on the same knob (not at the same time) would actually be useful?Yes and no... there are actually 8 aux buses that receive feeds and you can send to, but you can only send to 6 of those 8 from a single channel.
In practice this gives you more bang for the buck since six pots and a switch cost less and take up less precious real estate than 8 pots. The question is really are the extra two sends usable, and worth the marginal cost increase vs only 6 auxes, or a more expensive, and even longer or tighter laid out control surface. Real estate and ease of accessing controls is generally the dominant consideration but cost matters too when multiplied by every input strip.
This falls under the general category I call "mixer math" where stereo inputs often get counted as two, etc... everybody does this to some degree so they don't get dismissed by a cursory comparison between competitors features. When serious about shopping any board, dig a little deeper than the bullets in the FAB.
JR
Either I get 2 monitor mixes and 4 FX sends, or 6 monitor mixes and no effects sends. Am I correct in this evaluation?
I can imagine feeling very limited on this board. The first "4" auxes are really only two usable ones, and the remaining 4 are all pre / post switchable as a group. So, there's no way for me to get one channel sent to more than two pre-fade aux busses and still have post-fade aux busses available for effects. Either I get 2 monitor mixes and 4 FX sends, or 6 monitor mixes and no effects sends. Am I correct in this evaluation?
I used to run a Mackie 32x8 and what I did was to run effects and sub sends on the same-switchable aux. My reasoning was that instruments I would send to the sub, I would nto be sending to effects-typically.Ok, I understand mixer math, and I always read the full manual, that's why I'm asking right now. Just to humor me, could you think of an application where two sends on the same knob (not at the same time) would actually be useful?
www.crestaudio.com/media/pdf/fohman11-3-97.pdf