Mackie Mixer basics - Channel insert

welcome to tech support today we will be talking about how to use inserts on your mixer inserts are another way we can route signal in and out of your board with nothing plugged in your insert Jack the channel signal goes straight through the mic line preamp to the channel strip this patch point allows you to insert a compressor and equaliser or any other serial processing device the inserts offer both an unbalanced channel send and a return on the same Jack with a TS cable to the first click you're using the insert as an unbalanced direct output with the TS cable inserted to the second click you have a direct out with signal interruption to the rest of the channel strip with a stereo Y cable you are singing the channel signal off to a device and returning it back to the same channel via the same Jack in this instance your tip is the send signal and your ring is the return the first example we'll look at is hooking up your channel to something like a compressor or an EQ to make this work use a TRS Y cable we just talked about plug the TRS side completely into the insert jack take the tip side which is the send to the input of the compressor use the ring side which is the return and plug that into the output of the compressor now the signal is coming out of the channel into the compressor and out of the compressor back into the same channel when we're using the insert as a direct out it allows the signal to be sent somewhere like a recorder or in this case an ADT interface so the signal can be brought into a computer thanks for watching this Mackay quick tech video

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Length: 1min 41sec (101 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 22 2015