3 Ways To Connect Multiple Audio Mixers Together | Tutorial & Test
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2024
- In this video, we show you 3 different ways to connect an audio mixer to another audio mixer. This is useful if you want more channels, more fx, to connect a whole band, or work at a festival.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Introduction
0:17 - Pricing & Specs
0:37 - Why Connect Audio Mixers Together?
4:12 - Balanced vs Unbalanced Connections
5:03 - Line Level vs Mic Level
5:43 - Method 1: Balanced 1/4" Cable
9:25 - Method 2: XLR Cable
13:08 - Method 3: DI Box
16:19 - Summary
17:30 - Final Thoughts
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Sometimes it's like somebody makes a video JUST for you. I came here for a simple thing, and learned like 6 other things I've had questions about for years. I even have the 10XU as my main mixer so this was like the perfect demo for me. Thanks dude.
100% 10xu user here, too... connected downstream from a Tascam Model 12. Now I want to break out the old Mackie again!
You should be nominated for an award! I’ve come to your channel many times and learned a lot! Thank you!
Same here😂
Very, very well done! You explained it perfectly and this is quite helpful especially for volunteer media mixologists.
Super clear and thank you, I loved your pres of all 3 alternatives :) We will use the first simple one, with ballanced jacks.
Just bought a Soundcraft EPM8 sub mixer after running out of XLR inputs on my ZED14. Your video clarified EVERYTHING about how to connect them. Thank you!
Mate, I love learning from you. Contents are very educational! Thank you
Thanks for explained very well and clearly how to use different mixers connect to main mixer , it is very useful especially we are a part time DJ and quiet often we run in to the same problem. At one time, the banquet hall has only microphone inputs for mic 1/2 for house speaker system, luckily brought myself Active DI box use -40db, use XLR cables to mic input and it solve the problem.
Wow, this was enormously helpful to me. I'm a drummer and I recently bought a full set of drum mics and a 12 channel mixer to create my own mix of the drum kit. I was puzzled as to how I would take that mix into the band's main FOH mixer. Now it's very clear to me, thanks to you and this excellent presentation.
I cannot thank you enough. Subscribed !
Brilliant, very informative. Thank you
I love the way you explaining, in a simple English!!!! ❤
Excellent educational video. Many thanks.
Jordan, you are really good at communicating techy shit in a way that can be understood. That is a gift man!
I, like several others who have posted her am a drummer, looking usually for ideas on submixing without loosing processing flexibility, especially in sitches of limited space or equip is limited and you want to fine tune recording. Your teaching style helps my ADHD ass to pick up what you are puttin down! nicely done.
Absolutely LOVE your videos and this channel is ULTRA informative thanks 🙏🏽 for the great content.
Thank you for the kind words.
Just what I was looking for. Very informative.
Brilliant video! Very informative. Thanks so much.
Thank you so much for he in depth video. The DI box method is so smart, or I am so stupid that I owned one for years and never thought to use it in this way.
Thanks man, everything I was looking for, plus a little more!!!
Thank you for pointing out difference in sygnal from line output to mic input. Not knowing that I could have damage main console.
Now I know I should press PAD 25db on both input channels and make diverse PAN.
Woooow thanks alot brother, been waiting for this! Lol God bless 🙏
Glad to help
@@kettnercreative thank you so much 🙏☝️
Super helpfull. Thank you so much!!!
This truly helped me. Thanks brother
This was very helpful. Thank you
Thank you so much great video
gREAT tutorial!! Ketner rock!! 😊👌
Good stuff. Thanks for covering this thoroughly.
Glad it was helpful!
I really like your videos man. Super helpful
Glad to hear it!
great video! i learned a lot thumbs up for you!
Thanks bro very useful continue to produce more tutorial videos on that subject or more.
This is great ... many thanks!
It really works thanks for the advice
Thank You sir for sharing your knowledge, learned a lot!!!
Super useful video!
Man you have awesome videos! very educative thanks a ton!!!
Glad you like them!
Top explained as always. Ynx
You saved my ass with these beautiful techniques.
Cheers
Thanks bro I'm learning lot off mix from your video god bless
thanks, man. really helps a lot.
Very nice information, Thanks Sir
Jordan- thank you for your videos!
Glad you like them!
Very helpful. You gave me an idea. Thanks.
Glad I could help!
great video! simple solutions for this issue....👍🏻
Glad it helped
As a roadie I do your last reason a lot. But I'm actually using two desks today because I want to record drums with my USB interface that only has 2 seperate digital inputs. So I'll use the first input to plug straight to the kick drum and the second input out to a second desk recording all of the other drum mics (4) to record the kick drum on a seperate track
so well explained..thankyou
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the great video, I always come to the channel to learn more about mixers, I have a MG 12 XU that I recently bought, and also a Soundcraft Notepad 12FX that I had before, it's nice to follow you explain in human language everything i needed to know about hooking up mixers, i got all my knowledge from your channels, it's great watching your videos and learning how to hook up 2 mixers together with all the other videos
Ps, I am an amateur regarding these issues but I am very interested in these issues,
What I'm playing with is mixing piano music and vocals that my wife takes care of, along with a choir that she directs and other instruments.
Thanks again for great explanations for people like me
THANKS
Peter
Iceland
Thanks. Quite clear
Thank You!
Very helpful video. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you very much man✌
Happy to help
Thanks, very helpful
good stuff brother.. keep up the good work. Peace
Very informative thnx Keep it up
Thanks, will do!
Great video! Thank you so much
Glad it was helpful!
think I'm going to do this to act as a monitor controller for 2 sets of monitors. My Mackie VLZ is silent so I imagine another one would be just as quiet with the tape out going into it, giving me separate volume control of both monitors. Quality monitor controllers that don't crap out on you after a year are just too expensive. Hope it works. NIce vid!
Very helpful thanks
Glad it helped
great explanation. thanks
Glad it was helpful!
I had opportunity to get 2 Zoom Livetrak L12 and will use it this way, that unit one does vocals and speech, going into one of the stereo ins of the other unit.
The advantage is, on one I use a vocal effect with early reflection and reverb and the other with early reflection for some instruments.
Hi, thanks for this video. Very helpful. I'm a drummer who's invested in an 8 XLR mic channel mixer, enabling me to mic all drums plus 2 condensers with the view to send one output to the band's main mixer. Your video explains it perfectly. I gleaned from your video that XLR connectable cables are better suited to output to the main mixer over a longer distance? I envisage my mixer to be most likely near the drum kit for me to access. Can you see any issues with what I've suggested? Cheers
Nice presentation
This is a very useful video. You did a really great job.
What about connecting two digital mixers like from pioneer, denon, and xone?
Is it possible to have a DJ setup with two or more Denon decks and 2 or more pioneer decks and ahve them all sync either through midi or DVS? Let me know if I didn't ask the question clear enough.
Appreciate you
Thank you !
You're welcome!
Thank you for your awesome vids. I am learning so much. My band plays with backing tracks stored on an iPod. We generally plug directly into board, that is located near stage, and let our sound tech control volume while we keep device for starting and stopping during performance. We are preparing for a large venue gig and board will be located far off stage. Would it be wise to connect iPod into an on stage mini mixer, then send the feed out to stage box and on to main mixer?
Superb..
Thanks
Thank you so much
You're most welcome
great video...answered my problem with have a 4 channel xlr mixer and need more channels to run all my drum mics...and im using the yamaha mg10xu mixer too so cool !!! I could use this here method but its still gonna take up all both mixers xlr inputs to mic my drums but at least it will keep me from buying a much bigger and more expensive mixer. I could just buy another yamaha mg10xu mixer and chain then together...not sure if thats the plan yet tho.
thank you :)
Awesome channel and appreciate all the knowledge. Question; I go from DAW to mixer (behringer), having that be my input and output. Guitar, Bass and Mic are plugged into Behringer , Keys are usb into DAW. How would I send everything to another mixer to where the person on the other Mixer could control the levels for each instrument? I know I could plug directly into the other mixer, but I'm essentially using the first mixer as an interface.
Thanks sir
Welcome
Great video, but I have just one point of contention.
Although many people do it, it is not proper practice to set the fader at unity and turn the gain up till the signal hits zero.
If the audience paid to watch the level meters be balanced, this practice would work perfectly.
But the audience pays for an entertaining show with full, realistic sound.
If gain and level were the same thing, they wouldn't have different names or be positioned differently in the signal chain. The fader is the VOLUME control for the channel. Why would you need a second one?
The gain knob is for one purpose only, and that purpose is not for more volume. It's sole purpose is to set the incoming sound source to the optimal level to be best processed by the mixer so that every channel source is at a more managable strength.
This is crucial to capturing the true, full sound of the source and of a band.
Using the gain the way you demonstrate diminishes sound quality significantly. It is very audible in your video. When you turn up the channel fader on the main mixer, the bottom drops out of your vocal sound completely. Not because your EQs are set differently. They're exactly the same. It's solely because you are losing all of the pleasing sound in your vocal because your channel gain is completely attenuated.
No band ever sounds good using this method.
Awesome video!! Could I possibly run from a SoundCraft UI12 for drum mics, and into a larger mixer or another mixer like an UI 24? Just to free up space on the main mixer ui24
Thank you, it s saving my $$ no need to get an interface
If you have to use the 20 db pad for the XLR do you need it for the 1/4Jack output to. Great videos
Awesome. Great information.
Now how do I get the signal to my powered speakers? Do I go out of the main mixer only and all channels from both mixers will get to the speakers? Thank you.
Great video! Thanks for that. One extra reason for connecting two mixers is what I’m looking at: my existing 8 channel powered mixer is too limited. Now I’m looking at the Yamaha MG12XUK, which is not a powered mixers. To avoid having to buy new powered speakers, I’ll just use my Stagepass 500 mixer to connect the speakers to, and feed the new MG12XUK mixer into that. That would work, right? And it gives you another purpose for this video😊
Thanks this answered a lot of questions. So I have 2 small 8 channel mixers. Could I run the drums and bass off one and guitars and vocals on the other? Send both to the foh
Thanks for the videos, great stuff! Do you think it's possible to connect a JBL Eon Pro One to an external mixer, namely a Yamaha MG06? I can't figure it out! Thanks
I'm glad I found this another video about 2 mixer connected to each other. I plan to use our yamaha mg16xu as sub mixer for my drum mics and connect it to main board alto live 2404 with a distance around 40ft using snake wires with xlr input/output, because our senior pastor wants to have more vocal microphones for the future. I will put the yamaha mixer beside to the drum kit so that I can mix on my own preference.
Question, is it okay to plug an auxiliary send from the main board ALTO to sub mixer YAMAHA for IEM system (for me as the drummer) knowingly I'll use the sub mix for my drum mics? Or I'll just use another mixer intentionally for my own IEM system?
I am a volunteer in our church and we don't have a sound engineer available. I just learn from my experiences for 12yrs (I started serving thru music since 12 yrs. old). And I'm the one who is also responsible for the mixing and taking care of all the instruments and sound system equipment. Hope you'll recognize my concern. Thank you Jordan and God Bless!
Appreciate this. Running "out" to "in" for mains I managed but what if I'm running stage monitors as well? Is it possible to control monitor volume separately from the foh on the sub board? Basically..if I run a a few mics into the channels on the sub, they have aux control in the line but do I need to also run cable from the aux sends into a separate channel on the main board for monitor control? Tyia. I have no idea what I'm doing 😂
I know what is so addictive about audio stuff, it’s the hours of head scratching, frustration, anger then followed by low self worth because you feel like an abject failure.....all gets flipped on its head when you get an “AHA” moment. Thanks..I mean I know these things..but the old brain is starting to forget more than it remembers these days. I have an old sountracs 16 channel mixer with yamaha mg12/4. I’m running 3 old motu firewire boxes to get 16 outs and 24 ins. Motus are patched together..mains outs of 2 boxes into the third..the main outs of the 3rd into the yamaha 12/4. Duh ....of course...the pad switches!!! Forgot they are there..that explains my superrrr hot mix ;) and the tip about left and right panning to retain the mix on the sub-mixer...making rookie errors at 57 sheesh. This was a fantastic reminder. Excellent professional demo..something here for everyone. Liked and subbed.
There’s also another trick to get the aux sends of your slave board to act as though they were on the master board. I can’t remember it, but I used it two years ago and it works like a jem. If you know it, let me know.
Thank you for all your videos. Questions? Is it possible to just run my preset mixer from my board out just from the Mono into one of the house mixers channel as a single line? Would that work? Or if I used a L/R cable with an XLR MALE to a open channel/house provided stage DI? Would the sound me weak/bad/ muddy?
I’m wanting to use a separate mixer for a drum mic kit could u do a video showing how to hook them up and what I need to do it thanks
Thanks for the information very informative, However if I only have TR Cables can I run one from the main out (line) of the sub mixer to a DI Box then to a XLR of main mixer? What can I do if the main mixer nor the DI box has the pad function and I don't have in line connector? Thanks in advance
Hi. I have a DI active with attenuation 0 db, 20 db & 40 db. Can I use it. Thanks. Excellent your explanations.
Thanks for all the info. I have a unique situation where I'm using my main mixer as my stage mix to the house mixer. My main mixer has left and right Main Outputs xlr and 1/4. The other mixer only has one 1/4 and XLR. I'd like to go mono to the other mixer but I'm not sure if I only use the Left channel and left fader of my main mixer to the house if that'll work? Any ideas to connect a stage mixer with 2 outputs to a main mixer with only one input?
how to connect neutrik nl2fc audio connection to mixer any help would be appriciated, love the videos
Great
Thanks for the video. Had a bit of a nightmare the other evening using phantom power from a Mackie mixer (for a DPA sax clip on mic) sending to another mixer of a DJ. It was a bit of a rush and we didn't have time for a soundcheck! I used one of the XLR outputs (left I think) and then went directly into one of his channels. We had problems with the level . It sometimes was audible and then it disappeared. Watching your video I think I have already realised that we made quite a meal of it! 🤪But I was just curious if there is anything to take into account when using phantom power. Thanks for your help and God bless!
bump :)
I use the Yamaha MG10XU as my stage mixer to send to my church's PA system. Problem is, they only have one open channel for me. What would I need to do? Connect just the left side and have everything panned left? Or should I get a stereo to mono converter? (BTW, I got the MG10XU after watching some of your other videos on it) :)
One situation where we have to connect two mixers is when we want to hooking up 2 or 3 keyboards in one mixer and sending the left and right mix to the FOH. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Ny, thank you so much.
hi~its a really nice video and solve a big problem I am facing. But I do have one more question. I got two mixers, one goes to the pa system on the venue and links to the mic on the stage. and the second mixer is connected to a computer running zoom meeting(zoom which required sound input from the venue and pa system/ and sound output from the zoom audience to the main mixer/mixer link to PA system). just wonder how am I supposed to do it? Thank You in Advance
Thanks for the video. Do any of the methods create any delay from sound coming from console 1 going to console 2 and using it alongside console 2's sound?
Theoretically there is always a delay with every connection. Practically, you won't notice any type of delay. There's no Analog/Digital Conversion and any delay would be measured in fractions of a millisecond.
could you do a video on the MACKIE SR 40 8 bus I'd appreciate it
Would connecting a second mixer help with more aux channels for monitors? Or what do you suggest for that?
Super helpful. I usually daisy chain an 8-channel desk into the small desk in the back of a speaker via XLR but was getting bad distortion. I'd assumed mic/line level was to do with it being XLR or 1/4 inch so had it set to 'mic' setting but I now thinking I need to switch it to 'line' to handle the output level from my main desk.
Anyone else had this problem and can confirm my suspicions?
I'm not 100% that this is the problem (I haven't checked yet whether my inputs are normally set to mic or line). I found it hard to diagnose as it was always absolutely fine to begin with when line-checking input, but it would seem to become really distorted by halfway through a gig. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
What would be the best method if you're mixer only outputs through RCA? (Pyle pad10mxu) Would doing your first method of 1/4 to 1/4 through stereo Channel 5/6 work but instead of 1/4 to 1/4, it is RCA out to 1/4 in? Thanks.
Olá,sou inscrita no seu canal
Quero comprar o Mixer da MACKIE PROFX V3, mas estou em dúvida entre ele e o Sondcraft signature 22 MTK
Qual vc me indica?
So.. @kettner creative I'm at 4:11 going into this video and am deciding to post this question now (before finishing watching the video). I have a slightly different need than the ones listed.
I own a beach club - we have an external bar (four speakers, one sub) outside and we have an internal bar / club that's being fitted out right now (four speakers, one sub). The idea was that on occassion, we might have two different DJ's on the property playing at the same time. Or, maybe a sports special inside and DJ / music outside, etc.. etc..
Far out of my depth, but learning rapidly. The idea we had was to keep the external mixer at the outside bar (mackie pro fx6) which chiefly uses an IPAD for music or a DJ plugs in with two XLR and get an mixer on the inside that could feed the outside mackie pro. Goal being, if we had an event and one DJ inside, the primary mixer could control the entire property. However, if I had music outside and NFL matches on the inside, I could segment that outside mixer from the inside and have the outside speakers / mixer functioning fine and the inside still doing its thing.
The primary mixer we were pointed to by a friend for the inside was an Allen & Heath QU-16 - which houses enough inputs for live bands, etc.. and had the capabilities to fine tune everything.
Am I wrong in my assumptions? Would love any assistance you could provide.
Can this work with a box style powered mixer amplifier, like a rockville rpm-85, peavey, mackie, yamaha, etc. ?
if i do this , and use the main mixer for my synths and the slave mixer for effectpedals can i use the send/return of the second mixer?