Setting Up Your Yamaha Audio Mixer - Tips to Help Create Your Optimum Sound to your Speakers 

Thank you. Glad it was of help to you. It’s a wonderful mixer.

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Hi Tony. The rotary knobs serve the same function as the faders and can be used in the identical way. Whereas the faders are set to 0 for unity, the rotary controls generally have a small triangle on the side to indicate your unity setting. Other than this, they operate the same. Thank you for your kind comments.

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Enjoy. Great mixer.

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Glad it could help you. This was quickly put together for a musician friend who was having some difficulty with her gain chain. Judging by the remarkable response to this video I intend recording a more comprehensive and easier explainable follow up. Thank you for watching.

Glad it was of help to you.Made this for a fellow musician who had difficulty balancing her sound mix.

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Hi. You can plug your instrument via a 1/4 connection (TR connection) into channel 3/4. Plug it into the L (Mono) input.

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Looks interesting but it looks as if it is not a stand-alone mixer but requires to be connected to your computer. Digital mixers store these settings internally, a much better option but comes at a price. I don't think sliders and knobs (faders and rotaries) will be obsolete. It's very useful when you're mixing live as you see at a glance where your settings are and adjust very rapidly on the fly - a necessity for live mixing. Even the digital mixers have kept the faders, possibly for this very reason. That said, the Yamaha AG06 Mk2 looks interesting and if you're looking for an easy streaming solution it looks like a great choice. Enjoy!

@Brent Meder once you set your choices of eq and reverb on your laptop, it DOES remember your choices and then you can use it as a standalone mixer. It is a good little mixer, and far more sophisticated than my Mackie ProFX6V3.

Did you end up getting the 10 or the 12? I'm in the same boat. Do they both still have that giant power brick? I wish they would eliminate that.

I got the 10XU and don't regret it. The 12 would have been way too cumbersome for my needs. The 10 has a sizeable power adapter, although it can be placed on the ground. If I remember correctly, the 12 just has a regular IEC cable; though the adapter is probably built into its larger body. For now, I wouldn't want anything bigger than the 10, as its already borderline big for me.

Great idea. This was put together very quickly to help a friend with her setup but, judging by the response, I think I need to post a more comprehensive video. Thank you for your valuable input.

Hi Ricky. The sound card on the Yamaha mixer is really good so I'm not sure why you would need to use the BBE 482 SONIC MAXIMIZE to improve sound quality. The sound I get out of the Yamaha mixer to my powered speakers is really, really outstanding. I do sometimes use a multi band EQ to EQ a room if there is a problem with the room acoustics. I woukd imagine you could use your SONIC MAXIMIZER in thw same way - by taking the output from the Yamaha mixer into the input of your MAXIMIZED and then the output of your MAXIMIZER to your amp or powered speakers.

Hi. Yes, it is possible but you may need a converter to use a digital stage-box with an analogue mixer. You don’t mention what stage-box you are using or how many inputs you need. If your stage-box has XLR outputs then you could take these to your channel inputs on your Yamaha mixer as these should be analogue.

Strange? There should be some indication. Have you tried turning up your input gain? Does it make any difference?

You can't record video, only audio. If you want to input your phone into the mixer use the channel with the RCA inputs.

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Perfectly possible for this. Is you're amp outing to the speakers away from your main sound system? Not too sure what you mean about splitting the MC into different speakers though. Do you only want the MC to be output to different speakers and not the mix from the DJ controller/mixer? It is theoretically possible by outputting the MC vocals via an aux out and routing to the amp for these speakers or to these active speakers.

Hi Shaun. The easiest is to feed the output from your Yamaha miser to the input of your sub and set the crossover there. I'm not familiar with the Ekx 18 sp sub but I do believe that it does have a variable Low Pass control. Then take the output from your sub to your top speakers. The sub should then only be sending the frequencies to the tops above your Low Pass or crossover setting. Alternatively you can use an external crossover (I have a multi-band EQ that has a crossover built in which I sometimes use, but most times I set the crossover on my sub as described above). You could also use your Aux or Monitor output from your Yamaha mixer and plug this into your sub input, if you want to control your sub separately. However, bear in mind that this does not separate your low bass frequencies, and your tops from your main output will be getting the full signal. If you have a HP filter setting on your tops you could filter these out. However, you may be happy with your sound even without applying a HP to your tops. Experiment and listen. If it sounds good to you, then it's good so go ahead.

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Can be either. If it's a passive speaker (i.e. not powered) you will need to output to an amplifier.

You would have to connect to either a powered speaker or to an amplifier with a passive speaker.

Thanks. Elvis actually did have blonde hair when he was younger. I'm no singer, and have no pretensions to be one, but guess it demonstrates how balancing vocals can be effective - not to mention some good reverb and echo effects. Not sure why you cannot get subtitles?

Hi Haris. This mixer doesn't have separate EQs for auxiliary output. it should be possible to work around this by splitting your sound input to two separate channels and outputting the one with the low frequency taken out - possibly the easiest with the built in HP filter to your aux out. Personally i just send my main feed to my sub and do the crossover there, particularly as my sub crossover is optimised for my tops.

@@djbrentsa Thanks for your answer man. I know that you can output from the subwoofer crossover, but the sound quality it's not the same. I have RCF speakers and behringer subwoofer, all is active sound, but I like the sound quality from the Yamaha mixer. Thank you again. Have a nice day.

@@harisvikingii6450 it might be a better option then to buy a small external crossover unit. I use the Presonus 15" AIR and the matching Presonus 18" AIR S subs and they provide incredible sound quality as the subs have an exceptionally good crossover. I don't know the Berringer sub. I have heard that Berringer have apparently upped their game and are now providing fairly reasonable equipment - at one stage their stuff was not up to a decent standard.

To cut your frequency at around or below 100Hz you should ideally be using a crossover to feed your sub. I send my main output to my sub which has a built in crossover (most subs do) and then send the signal from there to my tops. If you want to send a separate output to your subs from your Yamaha mixer you could use your aux out.

Hi there. I stream my DJ sets using my Yamaha mixer into OBS via the usb and have had no issues. Check that your input from your DJ Mixer or DJ Controller is peaking around 0db and that your output indicator is around the same or slightly above - as long as your output indicator on your Yamaha mixer is in the yellow and not in the red you're good. The output volume to your streaming software should then be at the optimal input level. In OBS you can right click on the gear icon in the Audio Mixer section and add a Gain filter where you can increase your input volume if necessary - again watch your indicators in OBS to see you're not clipping your sound. When I'm streaming via OBS I personally add a Compressor and Limiter to further fine tune the audio output - the compressor to make the loud parts slightly quieter and the quiet parts slightly louder to even out the output (something that's done on every radio station broadcast) and a Limiter - set to -1db - to make sure there is no clipping of the streaming audio. Hope this helps you.

The usb output will be controlled by your main output. if you've set your gain structure properly your main output leds should be just touching the orange. What platform are you streaming from - OBS? You can increase the input gain from there if needed. I find that using a limiter filter in OBS helps to increase perceived volume - the same principle we use in radio broadcasting where we use limiters to compress the signal.

Hi. I understand your question and will try and answer as best I can. An external mixer can certainly help to boost your speaker performance as it gives you more control on your output and you'll be able to balance your sound more precisely to your room. Is it necessary however? That depends on what you are looking for. If you are happy with your sound output from your DJ mixer then it may not be necessary. By using an external mixer you'll probably be getting a better soundcard than most DJ mixers provide and and the ability to EQ your room output separate from your DJ music EQ (which you'll be using to control your mixes). Most reasonable external mixers do give you the ability to control your subs separately from your tops which is a big bonus.

@@djbrentsa Thanks for taking you'r time it's much appreciated 🙏

It’s a great mixer. DJ Brent is just not familiar with it. 😊

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