Welcome back to the Sonicview Learning Center.
This is video number five [6] in the series, and in this video we will show you
how Mixes work on the Sonicview and N-1
which is another useful thing with when you have multiple mics or in the broadcast world.
So let’s talk about it and let’s do it!
Sonicview has a system where channels, individual channels, are assigned to what we call a Mix.
There’s 22 Mix groups. Once assigned to a Mix, the Mix can be assigned to the individual outputs
or use what we call modules or processors such as EQ including the graphic EQ,
compressor, parametric EQ, gate and more.
A Mix is separate from the main outs and the other modules for the inputs.
A Mix has its own Master, its own EQ, compression, like I talked about,
and they will not affect the settings of the input channels
that are going to go to the main output, if you choose to do it that way.
Even for more flexibility a Mix can be assigned to another Mix for complex layering of Mixes,
for complex monitoring speaker setup.
So let me show you how to set up a Mix,
how to set up the individual outputs and use the modules or the processors.
There’s several ways to do it. There’s basically … I usually use three different ways.
Let me show you the more visual way. I’ll hit Menu here.
If Mixer Setup is not chosen and I unchose it, now I just chose it again, choose Mixer Setup
and go to Mix Send Overview, pretty straight ahead.
This is a graphic representation of Mix 1.
Again, there are many Mixes that you can set up. This is specific to Mix 1.
And this is the Send input level of our channels that are going to go to Mix 1.
Right now you see the white box up here is one through eight,
and I can choose 9-16 all the way through channels 40-44 which are the Stereo In 1 and 2.
So everything is here at your fingertip, at your touch and at your view.
Let’s keep it on 9 through 16. Notice that all of the knobs are alive.
And so if we wanted to add a input channel 16 to Mix 1 we’re doing it.
Notice, this is on the Home screen still.
And while I turn it, I add the dB level Channel 16 to Mix 1
and it’s also replicating that on the Home screen.
Same here 15. So on and so forth, so on and so forth.
If I choose 1 through 8 then let’s say, let’s go to 8. You can see that reflects that as well.
So that’s how to quickly do individual channels to Mix 1. You may want to use a N-1 system.
So let me hit the hamburger, the triple lines up in the upper right.
And if I want to do them all at once, a level to all of the channels going to Mix 1,
you can see a menu pop-up and let’s just set all, bang, to zero dB and exit out of there.
Now you see Mix 1, every channel has been assigned to Mix one,
so in an N-1 situation where you have multiple mics in a meeting or you have a host
and they don’t want to hear themself, go to the ON/OFF screen.
And visually now you can say, okay, input 2, which is mic 2,
I’m going to turn that off because I don’t want to hear themself, no problem.
So it’s easy to pick and choose an N-1 situation which we also have called Mix Minus.
It depends on, you know, music folks or podcasters call it Mix Minus,
broadcasters tend to call it N-1, same effect. So it’s realtime.
And all of this now is being programmed and going to be memorized
and I could save that as a preset to Mix 1.
OK, if we wanted to undo all of that, to set them all off, just do that
and now we’re back to everything is off.
Let’s turn it back on, everything’s back on, escape out of here,
back to the input send levels. Again on the input send levels I can set them all to No Input,
which I just did, and bang.
So there’s a lot of ways to do this, this is the most visual way.
Again, you can see this being reflected here.
Touch that block, the white appears, bang, bang, there it is, there it is, there it is.
And by the way, if you want to go to a second Mix here, just go to the second Mix,
and you can do exactly the same thing.
So I can go to channel 9 here on send, or let’s go to actually channel 25
and I’m sending that to Mix 2 now. Okay, back to Mix 1.
Let’s focus on Mix 1 because that’s the one we want to … there got it.
That’s the one we want to play around with a little bit more.
Another way to do this, by the way, let’s go back to the Home screen,
– and you can see it’s all been reflected on the Mix 1 Send on the Home screen –
is I can now go to one of my User Keys the default of number 5
is Send to Mix channels 1 through 24. So if you want to do it this way with faders,
you’re doing it. So let’s say all of your vocals are on 9 through 16. No problem.
We are now sending all of the vocal mics to a Mix 1, and that’s all being reflected on the screen visually,
you can see, using the faders. And conveniently, in a great GUI, is I can go to Mix 2 now
and I can set all the drums, which are 1–8, to Mix 2.
That gets reflected here on that line and Mix 3 might be a couple of horn section players
and they’re right here on 17, 18 and 19 and when I go to the Home screen,
just so that there’s proof there, there you go.
The third way to do it is just don’t go to any menu, just literally use the Home screen.
This is Mix 1, this is Mix 2, Mix 3 and 4, just touch the block for Mix 4,
and you can use knobs right on the Home screen to set up a mix for Mix 4.
So again to recap, Menu, Mixer Setup, Mix Send Overview,
everything’s in one screen: your ON/OFF, your bus and your send levels. Go back to the Home screen,
use let’s say layer key 5, Send to Mixes, layer key 6, Send to Mix 2 layer, Send to Mix 3.
Your model, excuse me, your Sonicview 16/24 is going to have a couple,
a different numerical sequence, but all these presets are here as well.
Or finally, recap, just touch the block for Mix 2,
then use the knob and you’re sending channel 14 in this case to Mix 2.
Alright. I want to go back and focus on Mix 1. So let’s go back to the Menu.
Let’s look at the visual way. Go to Mix Send Overview.
So I’ve got my mixes set up I want on Mix 1.
I’ve got 9 through 16 because those are my vocal mics, alright.
Now there’s processors available on every Mix, independent for every Mix,
and those are called modules. So let’s touch Module here and, bang!
We get all the processors. This is very similar to the input screen but it’s a little bit different
because here we have a compressor for Mix 1, Send, EQ, which is parametric, and a graphic EQ.
So the first thing that’s new that we can do here is, you can see I can choose compressor, by the way,
the send screen, the graphic EQ or the parametric EQ. Let’s go to the graphic EQ.
We haven’t seen that yet really and I’m going to do something that’s brand new in our latest version
and use Send Faders for the graphic EQ. There they are in all their glory.
So it’s a 31-band graphic EQ just for Mix 1 and you can see it’s all being reflected
in our LED scribble strips: Mix 1, Mix 1, Mix 1, to make sure you’re clear.
And you can see the dB level for this particular band
and, you know, if you just want it to flatten it out, you can actually hit FLAT
and the fader reflects that as well.
Okay, at this point let me show you something that’s really cool as well.
Not only the faders on the graphic EQ which are capable – and by the way, you haven’t
given up your finger capability and you can see the fader follows, or even using the knob,
so there’s a lot of different ways to do it – is that you can have the RTA on, the real-time analyzer,
on the module, like you can on the input modules as well,
and I’ve got some material on my internal SD card.
I’ve got a User Key set up which is going to hit play and then you can see the RTA real time.
So it’s going to spread across all of the bands as a super RTA on all of the screens
and you can see how that works.
So, it actually chases the band of the material so you can see that
this particular frequency band is visually being reflected to the RTA, very cool.
And if you get stuck just go back to Flat All and everything goes back to flat, the display and the faders.
OK, let me turn the RTA off, User Key 2 does that, which turns off my SD card program material.
Other things that you can do under Mix 1 is you can have a compressor.
Again, this is just for Mix 1. Let’s turn that on.
And I’m not going to go through all the parameters, though. We have another video where we did that
earlier on where we went through all the modules, the functions are exactly the same
as the input, you know, you have your input gains, you know, your knee control,
auto-makeup can be turned on, auto-makeup, you know, makes up for the dB loss when you squash the signal
in a decibel and automatically calculates that and puts that in there.
Change the threshold, things like that.
So the compressor is there, it has a Key In Source as well, you know, I can press that
and have any other channel, or another Mix actually, be the Key In Source. I’m going to leave it on self.
Upper left will take me back to the previous screen.
So very similar things and I also have the parametric EQ on top of the graphic EQ.
And again, the parametric EQ is exactly the same as the input
where I can, you know, choose the the frequency and the decibel level, excuse me,
and the next block up chooses the Q.
So I can make it a fine Q or a very tight Q which is I’m doing right now.
Let me turn that off. I don’t know if I want the graphic EQ and
the parametric EQ at the same time but it’s possible.
You can do all of that.
Okay, so let’s say we have our Mix 1, we’ve got it compressed,
we have it EQ’d exactly how we want to use it.
It’s right now set to be 1–8 or, excuse me, 9–16 for the vocals
and we want to output that for some monitoring capability or in-ear monitors,
or however you want to flow that.
So right now Mix 1 is set to Analog 1 output and I’m going to unlock that.
And I can go to Output and choose any of the analog outputs I want to flow Mix 1 through.
So it’s up to you. Yes I do want to do that, turn on 2 as well, turn off 1.
So any of the 16 analog outputs on both the Sonicview 16 and a Sonicview 24 are available.
And let’s just keep it simple. I’ll put it back on 1 because I want my vocals to go out 1.
So you have all these different mixes that you can do this for. Let’s go back one screen.
Let’s go back to, one more.
And you can have add it and do the same thing on Mix 2 so I can choose Mix 2
and you can see we have assigned our suite of drums here to Mix 2 and kick, snare, all that good stuff.
And press Module again, like I did for Mix 1, and send that to Analog Output 2, which I’m doing.
I just turned that on. And also you have Dante and other things that you can flow that out to.
If you’re using a stage box, then Dante, it’ll go to the output 2 like on our SB-16D stage box.
So there basically you have how mixes work. It’s very powerful.
One final thing I can do is – let me go back one here, let’s go to menu,
let’s go to Mix Send Overview – is I can go back, let’s say, to Mix 1 which I just did.
And I can go to Send Level (Bus).
I can actually take my Mix 1, which is my vocals, and layer that,
excuse me, I didn’t need to touch that, with Mix 2 which is my drums, just slightly.
So I can layer here, what I’m doing, is a Mix with a Mix. Sounds complicated but it’s not.
I’m basically just setting up another situation where my drums are slightly being mixed with the vocals.
And I might want to go to Mix 3 for that and set it up.
So Mix 3 is a combination of the drums, Mix 1, a little bit of the vocals, Mix 2.
So that’s basically what I just did here. Again I can hit Module
and send that through analog output number 3, maybe for the rest of the band or some other situation,
side fills, wedges, have at it. That’s basically a overview,
a fairly complete overview of what a Mix is, how to use a Mix, how to process a Mix,
and then how to send a Mix to the individual outputs of a Sonicview 24
including some of the new functions that we have. Like if I hit Module here,
like the graphic EQ now being able to use Send On Faders,
and let’s turn that on in all its glory here. Mix 3, Sends On Faders.
You can’t beat it, it’s very cool.