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2013/09/27 at 4:57 pm #24021
Rob-Spence
ParticipantI am still wrapping my head around the differences from the Yamaha way and the GLD so if someone could give me a hint…
I want to patch a socket to 2 channel strips so I can process them differently. My most common reason is to have a copy of a vocal channel to use with monitors so I have dynamics going to the main mix but no dynamics for the monitor mix and also being able to have differing EQ settings for both.
My initial approach was to simply drag the channel to 2 places on the surface but that didn’t do it. I just had 2 copies… duh!
Thanks
rob at lynxaudioservices dot com
2013/09/27 at 5:12 pm #34988ParticipantSo, since I only have a single AR84 and I plan to use it (in this config) at the suface, I took channel 25 (for example) and in the processing screen, set it to input 17 resulting in 2 channels from input 17.
Is there a way to create some virtual channels so I don’t have to give up a physical socket to achieve the soft patch? This isn’t any better than using a real Y cord other than not having to buy another AR84. Of course, I DO plan to buy one and use it as a drum snake. Then this technique falls apart.
rob at lynxaudioservices dot com
2013/09/27 at 6:10 pm #34993jcarter
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Originally posted by Rob SpenceSo, since I only have a single AR84 and I plan to use it (in this config) at the suface, I took channel 25 (for example) and in the processing screen, set it to input 17 resulting in 2 channels from input 17.
Is there a way to create some virtual channels so I don’t have to give up a physical socket to achieve the soft patch? This isn’t any better than using a real Y cord other than not having to buy another AR84. Of course, I DO plan to buy one and use it as a drum snake. Then this technique falls apart.
rob at lynxaudioservices dot com
There are only 48 input processing channels and 48 A/D input sockets when the system’s fully expanded… no “virtual” input channels to burn like you’d have on an LS9.
One possible workaround, if you’re not constrained in terms of your bus count, would be to use a group as a copy of the input channel. I believe you can route the socket of the input you want to copy to the direct input of the group, EQ & compress to taste (no gates on groups though) and then you can route the output of the group to any aux, main, or matrix mix you like.
I’ve never tried this out, since we’re one AR84 short of the maximum so there are plenty of input processing channels available for anything we care to duplicate.
2013/09/27 at 7:21 pm #34996MattLW
Participantquote:
Originally posted by Rob SpenceI am still wrapping my head around the differences from the Yamaha way and the GLD so if someone could give me a hint…
I want to patch a socket to 2 channel strips so I can process them differently. My most common reason is to have a copy of a vocal channel to use with monitors so I have dynamics going to the main mix but no dynamics for the monitor mix and also being able to have differing EQ settings for both.
My initial approach was to simply drag the channel to 2 places on the surface but that didn’t do it. I just had 2 copies… duh!
Thanks
rob at lynxaudioservices dot com
Hi Rob,
If you want to do channel processing, you need to use a channel strip, there are about 48, so just use one you don’t have a physical input for (as you have, shouldn’t be a worry with 2 x AR84’s… plenty spare!), you don’t lose an input’s doing it that way as you can assign any input to any channel strip.
If you used a ‘Y-cord’ you would benefit from having two physically separate inputs. Using the soft patch, you get the same head amp and use up one less physical input.
Y-splitting works just as it does on an LS9 I believe.
Hit select on a channel strip -> Make sure your in the channel processing view -> Select Preamp (so your in the preamp ‘processing’ screen on the touch screen).
(on the PC editor, you need to select the channel, hit processing, then preamp)
Preamp processing page then lets you change the input socket feeding the processing channel (as you would change the head amp feeding a channel strip on an LS9).
That what your after?
hth
matt
2013/09/27 at 7:27 pm #34997atrakce
ParticipantIn my opinion, there are min. 2 ways how to do it :
1) hardware splitting (trousers) – 1 instrument/mic to 2 inputs on AR rack / GLD desk
2) You can assign in I/O config one HW input from AR/GLD to x channel strips, gain and preamp are common, but all other functions are independent. This solution I´m using for my guitar – 1 mic or PALMER DI-09 to 3 strips, copying basic setup of fits strip to 2 others and apply different delay and pan for each channelGLD80,IPad4
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ZED14,ZED182013/09/27 at 7:57 pm #34998
Chris93ParticipantWhy would soft patching give up a physical socket? Setting channel 25 to get it’s audio from socket 17 doesn’t mean you cant still use socket 25 to feed a different channel.
Input sockets, input channels, and fader strips are completely independent, separate things.
Any channel can be fed from any input socket, and you can put that on as few (none) or as many (all of them) fader strips as you want to.
Select a channel, go to the preamp section, and tell it which socket you want it to gets it’s signal from. More than one channel can be set to receive audio from the same input socket.
Chris
2013/09/28 at 1:18 am #35002
GCumbeeParticipantThat does not work on the I/O screen with stagebox or surface pictorial. I tried that first. Actually locks up and can’t get out.
Have to reload show.But it does work on the channel Preamp screen as described. I have a lot of uses for that…
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AR24/122013/09/28 at 7:43 am #35005ParticipantIt works also from I/O setup screen !!!!! You can repeatedly use assign function for 1 input socket to x stripes.
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Originally posted by GCumbeeThat does not work on the I/O screen with stagebox or surface pictorial. I tried that first. Actually locks up and can’t get out.
Have to reload show.But it does work on the channel Preamp screen as described. I have a lot of uses for that…
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ZED14,ZED182013/09/28 at 11:02 am #35007GCumbeeParticipantWill try again. Could not get it to work. Kept freezing up when I assigned to the second stip.
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AR24/122013/09/28 at 2:10 pm #35009Chris93ParticipantThe second strip or the second channel?
Chris
2013/09/28 at 5:26 pm #35010thomasnastos
ParticipantJust go to a second channel strip -> preamp screen, select the same input at upper left and select Trim on Surface on upper right.Leave first channel strip Preamp on Surface. Now you have 2 different channel strips with same gain but on the second channel you have the Trim Gain to adjust as you wish.All other settings are different so different eq/comp etc for monitor and foh. I think it’s the common way to do such thing in GLD as other users commented before.
Once you do it go to MAIN L/R Routing and set OFF the “monitor strip” from the MAIN L/R so you dont accidentally move the fader or if you want to use a second reverb for monitor, post state (so you must move fader as needed but you dont want sound to main l/r)
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2013/09/28 at 6:38 pm #35011GCumbeeParticipantChris: Could not get it to work on the surface. When I added the second strip and hit apply, nothing happens and then both channels are frozen. Have to reload show to get back where I was. I tried it several times with same result. Works ok doing it from the preamp only.
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