Using Aux Sends in Analog and Digital Mixers for Effects Loops

so you see how Orcs ends they're just a really great way to send a part of your signal out to get someplace else and on a you know a midsize to a large size mixer users wouldn't have just to auxins here you might have six aid you know ten or more so monster mixes are a major application of aux mixes but there's also another big one as well so imagine I wanted to use aux one here to send this out to a reverb unit and in fact that's exactly what I've done I've taken this output here which is aux and one and I brought it into this reverb unit and here's what we can do so if I just bring up this acoustic guitar here if I send this out orcs one see what happens we start getting signal over here a lot a medium amount or no long so and of itself I mean we've got input into our reverb unit but really nothing's happening and here's why we're sending it into the reverb unit but nothing's coming back out of that reverb unit this is why we call this an effects loop and to complete an effects loop here's what we'll need to do this might be a little bit messy but we'll grab these two cables here it's a red and a blue on this snake and I'll get the other side of this guy and I could bring this back into the mixer some somewhere basically and there's a few places we could bring this back probably easiest want to do is 11 and 12 it's already a stereo channel so let me bring this up here so we can see we have a loop going on here we had to send going into a reverb unit and then that's returned back in here and if I bring this up please get these cables out of the way we should be here in reverb sure enough we do so with that effects Luke out through an orc sin and then back into our mixer here we can adjust the amount of reverb on this acoustic but very cool thing is we can now share this effect across all of our channels so so that snare drum right here you can see that as aux-in has been sent out of here into our reverb we can have differing amounts a reverb across all of our channels

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Length: 2min 50sec (170 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 06 2016