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The Components
Were gonna split the live sound setup in general into 6 (and possibly 7) stages: Sources, Mixing, Recording, Outboard Gear&Processing, Main Processing, Amplification, Speakers
Does a live sound setup always consist of these 7 things? No. Only 3 are really necessary: Sources, Mixing, Amplification, and Speakers. These thinks may come in different forms, but there will always be these 4 things.
Does a live sound setup always consist of these 7 things? No. Only 3 are really necessary: Sources, Mixing, Amplification, and Speakers. These thinks may come in different forms, but there will always be these 4 things.
Don't be intimidated by the image, as I probably made it harder than it has to be.
For now where gonna start with the basics: Sources, Mixing, Amplification, and Speakers.
Sources: These are where you signal comes from. These commonly are microphones, but could be stuff such as laptops, CD players, DVD players, basically anything that produces a signal.
Mixing: For this you use a mixer (usually these are desktop devices, but come in rack mount versions and can even be built into speakers), which takes all your sources and mixes them into a single set of outputs.
Mixers usually have these aspects to mix the signal:
•Input Channels
•Auxiliary Sends
•Subgroups
•Main Outputs
•Auxiliary sends Outputs
•Subgroups Outputs
•Direct Outs
You mixer may not have all these, but thats ok.
Outboard Gear&Processing:
Mixing boards usually have EQ build in, maybe some FX, compression if you're lucky.
For now where gonna start with the basics: Sources, Mixing, Amplification, and Speakers.
Sources: These are where you signal comes from. These commonly are microphones, but could be stuff such as laptops, CD players, DVD players, basically anything that produces a signal.
Mixing: For this you use a mixer (usually these are desktop devices, but come in rack mount versions and can even be built into speakers), which takes all your sources and mixes them into a single set of outputs.
Mixers usually have these aspects to mix the signal:
•Input Channels
•Auxiliary Sends
•Subgroups
•Main Outputs
•Auxiliary sends Outputs
•Subgroups Outputs
•Direct Outs
You mixer may not have all these, but thats ok.
Outboard Gear&Processing:
Mixing boards usually have EQ build in, maybe some FX, compression if you're lucky.
Sometimes this is not enough and you need more tools to mic your sound. This is not necessary, it is only an option.
There are 2 ways to rout Outboard gear: Through the channel insert, and through a