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<blockquote data-quote="Mitch Miller" data-source="post: 5907" data-attributes="member: 2673">I&#039;ve been a sound operator at our church for quite some time (iLive), but this is my first time actually configuring a new board (X32).&nbsp; I can say it&#039;s given me lots of things to look at next time I run sound at church!So I&#039;ve been playing around a lot with setting up my new X32.&nbsp; Kind of working on a setup that will work for my son&#039;s band (typical high school rock band, lead, bass, drum kit, keys and 2-3 vocals).I have the vocals all feeding into a mix bus and am sending that bus into three onboard effects processors.&nbsp; I&#039;m not quite sure what to do with the fx returns, though.&nbsp; I&#039;d like to be able to &nbsp;- monitor the vocals w/o fx,&nbsp;- mute all the fx at once,&nbsp;- control how much fx is entering the FOH,&nbsp;- control how much fx is going to each vocal monitor,&nbsp;- monitor the vocals with fx.First one seems easy enough; just solo the vocal bus.Second one I accomplished with a mute group on the FX channels.Number three seems like it could be done by sending each FX channel individually to the main mix.Sending fx to monitors is simple as sending to each monitor mix bus.But, I&#039;m not quite sure how to get the last one.&nbsp; Soloing the effects individually doesn&#039;t really offer much&nbsp; (that means anything to me, anyway).&nbsp; If I&#039;m sending them straight to the main mix, I&#039;m not sure how to hear just them with the dry vocals.&nbsp; Should I be sending the FX returns to another bus, as well as the vocal bus?&nbsp; My original thought was to send the FX returns to the vocal mix bus, but since the FX are being sourced from the same, wouldn&#039;t that create a feedback condition?&nbsp; It just seems like overkill to use two mix buses for vocals; one to mix the dry, and the another for the dry/wet mix.How do you experienced guys setup your mix groups for this kind of gig?Thanks,Mitch</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mitch Miller, post: 5907, member: 2673"] I've been a sound operator at our church for quite some time (iLive), but this is my first time actually configuring a new board (X32). I can say it's given me lots of things to look at next time I run sound at church! So I've been playing around a lot with setting up my new X32. Kind of working on a setup that will work for my son's band (typical high school rock band, lead, bass, drum kit, keys and 2-3 vocals). I have the vocals all feeding into a mix bus and am sending that bus into three onboard effects processors. I'm not quite sure what to do with the fx returns, though. I'd like to be able to - monitor the vocals w/o fx, - mute all the fx at once, - control how much fx is entering the FOH, - control how much fx is going to each vocal monitor, - monitor the vocals with fx. First one seems easy enough; just solo the vocal bus. Second one I accomplished with a mute group on the FX channels. Number three seems like it could be done by sending each FX channel individually to the main mix. Sending fx to monitors is simple as sending to each monitor mix bus. But, I'm not quite sure how to get the last one. Soloing the effects individually doesn't really offer much (that means anything to me, anyway). If I'm sending them straight to the main mix, I'm not sure how to hear just them with the dry vocals. Should I be sending the FX returns to another bus, as well as the vocal bus? My original thought was to send the FX returns to the vocal mix bus, but since the FX are being sourced from the same, wouldn't that create a feedback condition? It just seems like overkill to use two mix buses for vocals; one to mix the dry, and the another for the dry/wet mix. How do you experienced guys setup your mix groups for this kind of gig? Thanks, Mitch [/QUOTE]

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