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Kim Seifert · Joined: 09 Sep 2007 Posts: 212 Location: Ohio

It never even occurred to me to use reverb on my guitar. Surprised

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RayW · Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 953 Location: Twin Cities, MN

I use reverb on the vocals (at the mixer level). The guitar already runs through it's own processor. So, I put it straight through. But, the guitar processor adds tone, chorus, reverb, sustain (expansion), etc., depending on the preset.

I have been told by some that they don't like much reverb and bass in the mix. So, like Distilled said, go easy on it.
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Winston Ackland · Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 45 Location: Twas

any way to insert an outboard compressor at the stereo mix out of that board? i've seen yamaha boards that have simple compression for a couple of the individual channels, but nothing for the whole sheebang.
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Distilled1 · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 421 Location: Chicago

it does have send returns A&B so you can run rack effects as well Winston.

using the built in FX for guitar only issue is if you want a little on the vocals you need to use the same unless you run outboard stuff.

Electric I run a floor FX rack direct into that line in, but I have ran it as well through aux send return A on this mixer with good results. this can be set for all channels on main out monitor out. I don't know if this gets to the RCA record/tape out/in though return B is the inboard FX but if you run line returns thru I believe it shuts them down... something to try and play with tonight.
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RayW · Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 953 Location: Twin Cities, MN

I run a dbx 166XL compressor/expander from my Aux 1 and 2 back in and mix it onto the master buss. This works well as a monitor point, too.

Everything else goes to Aux 1 and 2, not Master. Very similar to how I do my recording setups.

Took some playing to get it so it sounded natural (I hope... haven't heard any complaints).
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Toby Lancaster · Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 105 Location: UK

Bearing in mind I've got a reasonably low latency soundcard (M-Audiophile 24/96), and plan to stream a maximum of two musicians into SL (bass, guitar, vocals), or record single instruments in a sequencer (e.g. Cubase), is there any benefit of using USB?

If I could afford the USB 2.0 or Firewire versions I'd get that, because then I'd have more options, but if I'm going to experience latency with USB 1.0, I'd end up using the line inputs on my soundcard anyway, in which case I'd only need to get the MultiMix 6 FX (http://www.alesis.com/multimix6fx).

Any thoughts?

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Norris Shepherd · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject:

.. just my 2 cents worth... but I don't think latency would be a concern. If you were going to use some of your recordings as backing tracks, I would just use a mixed version of these tracks, played back with Winamp or a media player, rather than Cubase. (would be less strain on the systems CPU, RAM, etc).

Then mix the tracks in with your guitar and voice, and run the line out on the mixer to your sound card.

As you are playing along with the mixed track, they are both being sent to the computer at the same time, ... and there is relatively little strain on the system as compared to when it is playing back several tracks in Cubase.

... that's my take on it.... Smile

Distilled1 · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 421 Location: Chicago

I agree 100% with Norris that would be the best way to run it. cubase will just eat up a lot of CPU.

you may want to look around for the FX8 non usb as they are nice (I use it) and I'm sure you can find one lower cost on e-bay or even still new at a shop like guitar center if they have any still in stock where the USBand fireWire are outselling them Smile

. Of Course the FX 6 is great if its all you need anyway;)
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Toby Lancaster · Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 105 Location: UK

When I mentioned latency, I was thinking about when recording audio (guitar/bass/vocals) via the mixer using a sequencer. I know most sequencers can be adjusted to cope with latency on an input. But I'm thinking that with USB 1.0 there might be a quite a big delay.

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Jennifer Mahoney · Joined: 04 Oct 2008 Posts: 3

I am having a... challenge with setting up my Alesis FireWire8 with my new PC runnning Vista Ultimate with a Creative X-Fi card.

I have the latest Alesis drivers and all the current windows patches, etc. And, I could provide input to both BUTT and Edcast to/from the mixer, UNTIL I tried to configure Cubase LE4 to do some recording. (I have the latest updates from Steinberg as well).

Once I selected the Alesis FireWire driver in Cubase setup, the sound panel in Vista was borked -- and the only program I could send sound to/from the mixer was Cubase. All other programs worked fine with the Creative card, but could no longer send to/from the mixer. If I do a Vista restore to the point before I configured Cubase, I'm back to "normal"

Alesis and Steinberg tech support have yet to be able to figure this out.

Any suggestions, before I do yet another restore to an earlier point and try another round of driver reloads, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.