Sound Mixer Tips - Your Music Mixer's aux

When using your new music mixer on stage or practicing in your home studio, there are many different situations where you might want to be able to plug in a sound mixer or input some sort of auxiliary input. Sometimes you just want to add a microphone or other live sound device to your music mixer so that you can perform along with the band or perform as yourself. This auxiliary setting is common for live karaoke sets in which DJs add their laptops to the mixboard for a live performance with their own songbook and song selection. Other times you might want to run some sort of computer based recording software program from your sound mixer during your set. Whatever your situation may be, you should be able to find an auxiliary input to match your needs.

One of the most common setups for music mixes, both on stage or in the studio, is a mixer with an output for a soundboard and input for the musicians themselves. In this setup the DJ would have a monitor attached to their sound mixer and the stage sound mixer would feed into their sound effects monitor. If they wanted to run recordings of their live sound effects, then they simply ran a line out of their sound mixer into their computer monitoring system.

Other times, a mixer with several input and output options will provide more flexibility than one sound console. In a musical setup with several or even multiple sound models, the use of more than one sound console can be helpful. For example, if a performer wanted to play samples of one track at a time through their mix, they could do so by hitting two different trigger points on each input knob on their mixer - one for the voice and one for the instrument. This setup saves them both time and sound quality!