Filter
Top Products
18 EURODESK SX3282 User Manual
10.3 8-Track Studio Recording
8-track MIDI project studio with sampler, 8-track recording system, one vocal
mic and several eects units. With largely computer-generated dance music
you will want to have plenty of line inputs, and an ability to take vocals quickly,
eciently, and with minimal desk disturbance. Often a vocal line is added after
the music is almost complete. For this we try not to use a valuable aux send as a
cue feed.
Once you have nished taking vocals, the subgroups may be used to submix
keyboards, drums etc. into the main mix. You might want, for instance, to apply
creative keyed gating to a portion of the mix. Use a subgroup insert to do this.
Auxless headphones mix
In a dance production, eects are often of paramount importance in creating
interesting/evolving sounds, and aux sends are usually all dedicated to this
purpose. Also it is also not unusual for a vocalist to be drafted in to add some
colour to the mix at a late stage. The simplest solution here is to feed the main
mix into the artist’s cans. If you (or they) are uncomfortable working with the
mix, try using a simple line mixer to blend the output of the mic channel (via a
subgroup; possibly via a dedicated FX unit to keep the vocalist happy) with the
main mix, the combined stereo signal then being fed into the vocalists cans.
If you need to hear the harmonies, but they’re putting the vocalist o key,
you’llwant to be able to delete channels from the headphone mix. If you still
don’t want to assign a couple of aux buses to headphones monitoring because
this would disturb the main mix, the following suggestion might prove useful:
Set up a separate channel assignment on a subgroup pair, omitting the oending
channels, and use that output instead of the main mix to drive the headphones
either directly or via a line mixer as illustrated above.
◊ In all cases the wet/dry balance of the supplementary vocal signal
takes place within the FX processor.
Channel
Inputs
Source Subgroup/Track
Mic/
Line
mono/
stereo
1 Tape 1 — — —
2 Tape 2 Mix L M
3 Tape 3 Mix L M
4 Tape 4 Mix L M
5 Tape 5 Mix L M
6 Tape 6 Mix L M
7 Tape 7 Mix L M
8 Tape8 Mix L M
9 Sampler 1 Mix L M
10 Sampler 2 Mix L M
11 Sampler 3 Mix L M
12 Sampler 4 Mix L M
13 Sampler 5 Mix L M
14 Sampler 6 Mix L M
15 Sampler 7 Mix L M
16 Sampler 8 Mix L M
17 Drum Computer Kick Mix L M
18 Drum Computer Snare Mix L M
19 Drum Computer Hi-Hat Mix L M
20 Drum Computer Clap Mix L M
21 Synthesizer 1 Mix L M
22 Synthesizer 2 Mix L M
23 Synthesizer 3 Mix L M
24 Vocal Mic Mix L M
25/26 Eect 1 Mix L S
27/28 Eect 2 Mix L S
29/30 Eect 3 Mix L S
31/32 Eect 4 Mix L S
Aux Return 1 Eect 5 Mix L S
Aux Return 2 Eect 6 Mix L S
Aux Return 3 Eect 7 Mix L S
Aux Return 4 Eect 8 Mix L S
Subgroup
Outputs
—
> Main Mix/Tracks
1 to 8
— —
Aux Output 1 Eect 1 — — —
Aux Output 2 Eect 2 — — —
Aux Output 3 Eect 3 — — —
Aux Output 4 Eect 4 — — —
Aux Output 5 Eect 5 — — —
Aux Output 6 Eect 6 — — —
Aux Output 7 Eect 7 — — —
Aux Output 8 Eect 8 — — —
Mix Output L — > DAT — —
Mix Output R — > DAT — —
Monitor Out L —
> CTRL-R./
Headphones
— —
Monitor Out R —
> CTRL-R./
Headphones
— —
Tab. 10.2: 8-track studio recording