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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.

@bigskybob

Жыл бұрын

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!

@SidhuGhising

4 ай бұрын

Same here😂

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!

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.

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 !

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.

Mate, I love learning from you. Contents are very educational! Thank you

Just what I was looking for. Very informative.

I love the way you explaining, in a simple English!!!! ❤

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.

Absolutely LOVE your videos and this channel is ULTRA informative thanks 🙏🏽 for the great content.

@kettnercreative

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words.

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.

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.

Thanks man, everything I was looking for, plus a little more!!!

Brilliant, very informative. Thank you

Brilliant video! Very informative. Thanks so much.

Thanks bro very useful continue to produce more tutorial videos on that subject or more.

Good stuff. Thanks for covering this thoroughly.

@kettnercreative

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Woooow thanks alot brother, been waiting for this! Lol God bless 🙏

@kettnercreative

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to help

@yajaudiophile1892

3 жыл бұрын

@@kettnercreative thank you so much 🙏☝️

This was very helpful. Thank you

Thank You sir for sharing your knowledge, learned a lot!!!

great video! i learned a lot thumbs up for you!

This truly helped me. Thanks brother

Nice overview, thanks!

You saved my ass with these beautiful techniques. Cheers

Excellent educational video. Many thanks.

I really like your videos man. Super helpful

@kettnercreative

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it!

This is great ... many thanks!

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

Super useful video!

gREAT tutorial!! Ketner rock!! 😊👌

Man you have awesome videos! very educative thanks a ton!!!

@kettnercreative

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

Thanks bro I'm learning lot off mix from your video god bless

Thank you so much!! Very helpful!!

Very helpful. You gave me an idea. Thanks.

@kettnercreative

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help!

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

good stuff brother.. keep up the good work. Peace

It really works thanks for the advice

thanks, man. really helps a lot.

Thanks. Quite clear

Very helpful video. Thank you.

@kettnercreative

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you so much great video

great video! simple solutions for this issue....👍🏻

@kettnercreative

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped

Thanks, very helpful

Very nice information, Thanks Sir

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!

Jordan- thank you for your videos!

@kettnercreative

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

Top explained as always. Ynx

Great video! Thank you so much

@kettnercreative

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

so well explained..thankyou

@kettnercreative

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Nice presentation

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.

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.

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

great explanation. thanks

@kettnercreative

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Very informative thnx Keep it up

@kettnercreative

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

Very helpful thanks

@kettnercreative

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped

Thank You!

Thank you very much man✌

@kettnercreative

Жыл бұрын

Happy to help

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.

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.

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?

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.

thank you :)

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!

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😊

Thank you !

@kettnercreative

9 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

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.

Hi Jordan, great video, thanks for the work. How can one tell if a 1/4" input/output jack is balanced or unbalaced?

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

Thank you so much

@kettnercreative

2 жыл бұрын

You're most welcome

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

Superb..

@kettnercreative

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

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

Appreciate you

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?

If you have to use the 20 db pad for the XLR do you need it for the 1/4Jack output to. Great videos

Thank you, it s saving my $$ no need to get an interface

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.

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 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

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 😂

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?

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. 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!

@josipivancic6265

Жыл бұрын

bump :)

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.

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?

how to connect neutrik nl2fc audio connection to mixer any help would be appriciated, love the videos

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) :)

Would connecting a second mixer help with more aux channels for monitors? Or what do you suggest for that?

Another reason, and one I came to this video for, is if you use multiple audio interfaces. While you can create an aggregate device in Mac or ASIO4ALL in Win, a typical home studio mixer would connect to one interface using the main out. Is this an accurate statement?

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!

Thanks sir

@kettnercreative

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome

Can this work with a box style powered mixer amplifier, like a rockville rpm-85, peavey, mackie, yamaha, etc. ?

When the Yamaha MG10XU was plugged into the MG102c, which one should be plugged into the computer?

I'm not sure I understood this video too well. I'm in the situation where in my band we all have one wedge monitor each (3), and we mix an individual mix on our Zoom Livetrack L-20 for each of us. But would we then be able to connect this mixer with our already set parameters for our monitors to the venue's PA and mixer and tweak ourselves from stage what we hear from the monitors? We very much prefer actuall speakers instead of IEM's which is why we don't use that. Does anyone have a simple answer for this?

Great video. I think the Yamaha 10- and 12-ch mixers 1/4" inputs are all unbalanced(?) Can you run 1/4" balanced outputs from the sub-mixer into the unbalanced inputs of the main mixer - with a TRS cable? Or do you have to use 2 XLR inputs on the main mixer?