Audio Mixer Setup: A Beginner's Guide 

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These days no one bother to read 'user manual' until they face some serious issues with it. That's where these kind of presentations help us learn a lot, even more than the manual, like those tips and tricks. Well done!

Absolutely exceptional. Expertise at the highest level, combined with a flawless presentation. Not only does Kyle possess a truly great understanding of all things audio, but he is a quite brilliant teacher, and having those two qualities side by side is so very rare. The very best of audio RU-vidrs. Period.

The best free university with excellent and clear examples. A truly professional channel which teaches better than most traditional schools do. Mackie has chosen a good channel to sponsor. Looks like a neat little device if you are looking for such a thing

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Before this video I didn't even know what I didn't know. Now I know enough to ask some questions. Thank you!

I've been working with mixers of all shapes and sizes for about a decade now. I still found this video useful

It's great that you inform using a piece of equipment that is actually affordable to the average Joe. I like to ohh ahh and drool at the latest Neve board. The channel strips are essentially the same as my Soundcraft. Videos like this help us understand that our 'what we can afford' equipment is fully capable of turning out the tunes. 73

The best instructional video on mixing I have seen. A keeper.

Released TODAY, and ALREADY 7.5K views! You've ne KILLING IT. GOOD FOR YOU MAN. You're truly earning your views. You deserve success.

This is the type of information that I’ve been looking for, now all I have to do is try and follow your advice. Thanks from a ‘ol timer from New Zealand 🇳🇿.

Another great step by step tutorial with diagrams and useful tips. Perhaps more beginners guide in the future as more older generations take up recording at home. A step-by-step guide for analogue hybrid system of mixing and match to connecting for both technologies. From connecting & mixing up drums and other instruments on to a DAW via analogue connections.

Thank you for this video. What ever they are paying you it is not enough! Your clear explanation of this unit should help them sell a lot of these. I have a tascam model 12 that is an awful lot like this and have watched a bunch of videos on its use. Your explanation was perfect and will help me. Might have chosen the mackie if I had seen this first.

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I love your videos! Your channel has been so helpful 😊Thank you for explaining everything so clearly

Even though I don't have much use for it, I'm enjoying learning about production analogue equipment from this channel! I've always found this stuff interesting. When I was in school, we had lots of mixer boards like this (but older and cheaper). Some in the music/theater building, and even one to control the gym audio system. The one for the theater was the most advanced by far. There was a booth in the back of the building that had all the audio equipment, as well as the controls for the stage lighting. There was a massive equipment stack in the corner, full of gear I couldn't even begin to identify! I was once in charge of this booth for a theater production. I figured out the mic levels and the lighting controls (I made a script for where each slider needed to be at each scene), but everything else was a mystery. I was told just to ignore the equipment rack, because there was only one person who knew how to use it! Unfortunately the building was left unlocked one night, and someone stole a lot of the equipment.

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A very good explanation for those of us that use digital boards. It is always great to know the basics for whichever type board one has. Thank for the video!!!

This is brilliant! Classic audio uni clarity and so comprehensive. Thanks on behalf of all inexperienced amateurs!

I used to have a really nice low latency Behringer 8 channel around 2007. So handy and versatile! 👍😎🇦🇺

I use a Behringer Xenyx 802 mixer which has much more basic features than that Mackie but the video was still quite informative. I use effects pedals connected via the send/return inputs on the mixer. I notice that when I use an effect in a channel, if I pan the signal extreme left or right, the effect itself is still heard in both channels, which sounds pretty cool.

Another great tutorial Kyle thanks....When I got to use my first-ever mixer at Audio University, it was a 32-track (I think) Neve VR Legend and I was totally overwhelmed by the beast! But one of the most reassuring & enlightening pieces of information given by our tutor was the fact that each channel strip was just a duplicate of the previous one....

While you covered inserts briefly, could you further explain on how to use inserts to feed a channel back into the next one (and do this possibly even several times) to use gain to distort a sound? The same way they created those mad distorted 909 gabber kicks in the 90's.

Wow! I been looking for this for a long long years. Thanks a lot! I hope you do some zoom in close up of the mixer parts for people who have poor eyesight!

Awesome information! Thank you 🙏!

One of your best explainer videos yet- thank you! The final section on inserts felt a bit rushed; would love to see more on that subject in a future video.

Excellent explanations, Kyle! You have a gift for teaching. Thanks very much for this excellent video!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! At LAST a rundown of the features of this analogue mixer. I have the ProFX12v3 & being a bit of a newbie, I couldn't get my head around how to hook up a stage monitor. All sorted now. Cheers from Australia.

I’m in the process of learning my Mackie mixer. Thank you for your excellent video!

The best ever; practical and easy to understand with demonstration. Thank you so much for your sharing!

You’ve solved my curiosity which I’ve been waiting for so long time. Very simple, helpful and detailed information 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 thank you very much.

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Excellent!! Thanks so much for your clear easy to follow series. Very helpful thank you.

The most thorough review on a mixer I have seen. Thank you so much.

Thank you! This video was extremely helpful! I was struggling with getting my band's mix right (I am by no means a sound man, but since I own the PA equipment, I inherited the job). Interestingly, I used to use a Mackie ProFX12v3 mixer, but upgraded to a Yamaha DM3 digital board because I needed more inputs. BIG difference in the way they operate, but the basic principles are the same. Anyway, our powered speakers are two LD Systems Maui 28 column arrays along with two QSC CP-8's. I used to set everyone's gain, set the speakers to about 75%, set the master to somewhere around -10 dB, then and adjust everyone's sliders to get the volume we wanted. This sort of worked, but the sound was less desirable than I had hoped for. After watching your video, I tried setting the master and individual sliders to unity, then bringing up the speakers until the volume was right as you recommended. Sounds much better now, especially the electric guitar (running through a Fender Tonemaster Pro). You are a true expert in audio engineering and I appreciate the help you've given me and my band! 🙂

Very informative this will help me set up my home studio for Caribbean music🎙️🔥

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Super great explanation. Thanks!

I JUST bought my first mixer (Allen and Heath GL2200) so this video dropped at the perfect time. 👌 Thank you for all of your stellar recourses for audiophiles and producers alike!

Great explanation! As much as I have learned about mixers in the last year or so (primarily via Audio U) I learned some new things in this video. Thanks!

Thanks, once again for the great content. Impeccable production and didactics! (You've already touched these subjects in prior videos, but this one is sure an octave higher 🙂). Inspiration for all of us to do always better and better.

Great video for beginners man! All your videos helped me a lot getting into mixing my drum covers! 🤘🤘🤘

I have this mixer, just a generation older. I use it for streaming, and felt that I had done ok. Watching this video, made a few changes and already sounds tons better. Would absolutely love to see a video on setting up a way to use speakers and a mic when live streaming and it not pick up the sounds out of the speakers if that is possible.

I have quite a weird mixer. It has two channels, that can be each assigned as either phono or line. Then it has a cross fader right at the bottom and even a DJ microphone input? I has been a lot of fun playing around with it. I even learned how to connect a single source to the two inputs such that the cross fader functions as a balance control Oh I totally forgot: it has no output level control. You set the output level with the two linear level sliders.

Excellent presentation! Thanks a lot!

You really make this much easier. Great deal! Thank you. :)

Excellent information!

Just the information I needed. Thank You!!!

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Great great stuff.. Thanks this video is giving so much value. I have personally put myself into the sound stuff at my Church, because the sound guy hasn't been so consistent, And we can't keep depending on him. Thank you so much.. I'll practice better now

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Simply explained, and practical as hell. Wish I knew about this channel years ago. Do you know a lot about the DAC chips in these? I know there are analog mixers and digital mixers, but is there a huge difference? The reason I ask is I have a Volt 276 interface, and I got curious one day and recorded a song from two different portable CD players. One with a 1-bit dac (a mid 90's Panasonic with a MASH chip) and one with a 16 bit dac (a late 90's Akai). Now if you plug headphones in each of these and listen - to my ears - I hear a wider sound stage, clearer instrument separation, and more detailed dynamics. But when I recorded them through my Volt 276, the waveforms were identical and so was the sound. The source I used was my 2nd japanese pressing of "Thriller." Very little if any compression and when you crank the volume, you get more detail instead of just headache-causing loudness. So, speaking of mixers that also act as interfaces - as stated in the beginning of the video - is an analogue mixer going to be able to pick up these more subtle nuances in the sound? I know analogue is thrown around quite a bit, and I know a lot of the more affordable audio interfaces use the same DAC chips, but for some reason when you mentioned mixers acting as interfaces, it triggered this memory. Apologies for the seemingly off-topic question, but I thought I'd ask anyway. Keep up the great work!

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Thanks you are great. Good education. I just record songs in my studio now and then and wonder. I use my focusrite 2i2 but I also have a yamaha mixer MG 06X. Would you use this on the interface as well? Thanks 🙏

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I love this channel and it's really informative. Could you do a similar set up without powered speakers? Some of us buy budget equipment.

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Hey ! Thank you so much you’re really good at teaching audio ! just a question : i just bought a Ross system RCS-1202, and i don’t have Hi-Z buttons, what should i do ? can i directly connect a guitar knowing that ?

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Appreciate your channel, work, and time you put in for us man Seriously Amazing If we had some question or doubts, is there any discord or reddit or anything else which might help? I have got a complicated sound system at a place of worship which got accumulated over time and now trying to bring it all together for best outcome.

Great video as always! Just wondering if you could enable comunity translations for your subtitles. I'm from Brazil and, although english is my second language, it isn't for my church's sound team and I would love to send your videos to them. I already use a lot of your content in order to train them, but would be nice if they could go directly to the source and for you to get some more views here.

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Love the videos. Is there any way to get more content on mixing keys, gain staging keys, etc..

Excellent video! What is the device with the "ears" you put the headphones on so we could hear what's in the headphones?!

Great Video. Sometimes these mixers are found on film sets and sometimes just an audio recorder. Do these mixers have a purpose in recording only dialogue or is it overkill?

Thank you. I remember about 3 years ago we had a musical at church one night. I was not involved at first. After the first rehearsal, I received a call. I was asked why they were getting feedback and if I may be able to help. the first thing I did was to look at their setup to understand what was going on. Once I determined what was happening I went to work. The speakers they were using we built into the ceiling, so there was nothing to be done there. Next, I looked at the mic placement to each other. I placed them a bit farther from each other. I added a mixer to the setup to help with feedback. Between using the EQ and gain I was able to get rid of the feedback while getting a good clear sound. It was a success. The only thing I requet was not recording it. Also, another time, I used a mixer to setup mics on stage. The performers would be running around on stage. So, I looped 8 mics from the rafters above and brought them down far enough to pick up the performers as they ran around. Again, using the EQ and the qain I was able to get the desired results. I am not a professional by any means, That is why your audio lessons are so helpful for me.

Could you please make a video on "how to set gains - sound levels for quiet, soft, timid vocalists"? This is a problem plaguing sound engineers in church - worship scenarios. There are inevitably a couple of vocalists who just have very quiet voices and setting gain for them causes extremely hot mics that lead to noise and feedback, but they can't be heard in the mix otherwise. Thank you!

Hi. Thank you for this. It's very helpful. May I ask what the set up is if I also want to have a live event online such as zoom or ms teams live event. how's the set up going to look like? so basically, I have a host on stage using a bluetooth mic connected to a bluetooth speaker (for the audience onsite) and the event is also being streamed live via ms teams live event. Appreciate the help.

Hey brother thank you for the information I have the same mixer can you please go a little death inside about how do I connect mixer and interface at the same time and record professionally

Awesome video, thank you! I have an AER Compact 60 acoustic amp, which I use for vocals AND guitar. It doesn't have level meters per-se.. only a little red light that flashes when it is peaking. Could you possibly show a tutorial on how to set levels on an AER amp please? :)

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I looked at the thumbnail, instantly looked at the mixer to my left and thought "No way, that's my mixer!"

Any chance of a video to set up a soundboard mixer for a small church. No instruments just mics?

love your videos! very informative.... Question, i'm using the same mixer for Karaoke, and i'm dealing with feedbacks. What is the best approach to fix this issue? I'm thinking about getting 15 band EQ, but i've seen other devices such as the Behringer Feedback Destroyer Pro. I'm looking for a method to automatically eliminate feedback, not needing to constantly adjust. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

What Mixer can you Include the EQ which is done in the Mixer so that u can grt the EQed version for recording?

Good day, Audio Lovers, I have been following your channel since I started setting up and building my home studio. Many thanks for your wonderful informative content! I am wondering now, what would be the best (buck for money) mixer to begin with. for a home studio, and do I need one? I need to connect 1 laptop, 1 guitar, 1 bass, 2 phantom-powered large diaphram mics, and 2 dynamic mics. I also use one or two effect loops. I have a great Art Pro Leveler and a good Analog Synth module. I already have a Scarlet 4i4, The simple Mackie 4-channel Phono Amp, and a Big knob for the monitors. Finally, I'd like a simple channel to talk with anyone in the other/mic/recording room. Any tips? Note I am located in the EU. Best regards, and have a great Friday and weekend! Mike

So, all the outs require trs cables? Except the phones, aren t those outs mono, why not using tr cables? Anyway thanks for the video, so convenient, I have the exact model of Mackie in my studio

How do you hook this up if in a church? House monitors separate from floor monitor

I've got a question about the Musysic 6 Channel stereo mixer. The main issue I'm getting is only 1 channel out of an ipod hooked up through an Aux cable to this mixer. The mixer itself - I've got 2 stereo speakers and 2 large PA's (4 cables total) hooked up to the two outputs in the back (I bought a splitter so all 4 speakers can put out sound). The Aux option has 1 'Send' and 1 'Receive'. Initially I had the cable plugged only into the Receive option because the send does not put out any sound. This is when I discovered only 1 channel is playing from the songs I'm choosing. So I bought another splitter to plug into both Send and Receive, but I'm still getting only 1 channel output. When I play the ipod through another stereo, both channels come out, but when I plug back into the mixer I get only 1. Do you have any insights as to where I'm not connecting properly? Or perhaps it's just the mixer itself? Thanks!

Question, if you record a full band this way with the sub 1-2 would you have to have just one track for everything or is there a way to record individual tracks to be able to mix and master later? Sorry if this doesn’t make sense beginner here

How are the monitors and speakers powered? Any amplifiers??

How would you visualize the behavior and what would you say is the biggest drawback of using a one-knob compressor on a mixer? There's no control over ratio, threshold, knee size, limiter, etc like a normal compressor. In your experience, are all one-knob compressors generally the same in what they do or can they be surprisingly different? I mean obviously the answer is: read the damn manual, use your ears, and patch it with your own dedicated compressor if you don't like what it does, but I'm generally curious how ubiquitous the internal settings of the one-knob tend to be.

so electric acoustic guitar is the same way with an electric guitar? some people say not to insert an electric guitar straight into a mixer. thanks

Do you do one to one tutorials on zoom?

I have always wondered why live mixers have to be different from studio mixers and if their uses can actually be interchanged

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5:19 😮 What in the world is that? i think this makes me officially Lost in Technology spaces.

What are your honest thoughts on the mixer, aside from the sponsorship?

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