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How to mix effects with all the inputs with aux send/return
Uh..Please elaborate on this! Do you seek instructions/descriptions of the various ways to operate aux and effect sends/returns on an analog console?
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The following is clumsy: the signal produced by the mixer will usually be sent directly to an amplifier, unless that particular mixer is “powered” or it is being connected to powered speakers.
Functionally, the mixer output is always sent to an amplifier and the amplifier output to speakers. If the amplifier happens to be physically part of the mixer (a powered mixer) or the speakers (powered speakers) then so be it.
The audio mixing article says "Mixing - summing signals together, which is normally done by a dedicated summing amplifier or in the case of digital by a simple algorithm." (emphasis mine) Where is there information on such algorithms? (Hopefully I haven't missed it if it's already in this article!) There must be more complexity than simply summing, because (for example) summing more than one full-amplitude sine wave will result in a lot of clipping. Another example is a full-amplitude sine wave which, after a time, is joined by a second sine wave of equal amplitude -- how are they mixed without clipping, but preserving the psychoacoustic properties? I have yet to find a clear, non-code description of the details of this sort of thing. Or else I have a misunderstanding about the whole process. -- 98.221.23.155 (talk) 03:26, 8 March 2009 (UTC)