Behringer MX3282A - Manual (Page 25)

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EURODESK MX3282A
10.3 8-Track Studio Recording
8-track MIDI project studio with sampler, 8-track recording system, one vocal mic and several effects units.
With largely computer-generated dance music you will want to have plenty of line inputs, and an ability to take
vocals quickly, efficiently, and with minimal desk disturbance. Often a vocal line is added after the music is
almost complete. For this we try not to use a valuable aux send as a cue feed.
Once you have finished taking vocals, the subgroups may be used to submix keyboards, drums etc. into the
main mix. You might want, for instance, to apply creative keyed gating to a portion of the mix. Use a subgroup
insert to do this.
Auxless headphones mix
In a dance production, effects are often of paramount importance in creating interesting/evolving sounds, and
aux sends are usually all dedicated to this purpose. Also it is also not unusual for a vocalist to be drafted in to
add some colour to the mix at a late stage. The simplest solution here is to feed the main mix into the artist’s
cans. If you (or they) are uncomfortable working with the mix, try using a simple line mixer (like the BEHRINGER
ULTRALINK PRO MX882) to blend the output of the mic channel (via a subgroup; possibly via a dedicated FX
unit to keep the vocalist happy) with the main mix, the combined stereo signal then being fed into the vocalists
cans.
If you need to hear the harmonies, but they’re putting the vocalist off key, you’ll want to be able to delete
channels from the headphone mix. If you still don’t want to assign a couple of aux buses to headphones
monitoring because this would disturb the main mix, the following suggestion might prove useful: Set up a
separate channel assignment on a subgroup pair, omitting the offending channels, and use that output instead
of the main mix to drive the headphones either directly or via a line mixer as illustrated above.
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In all cases the wet/dry balance of the supplementary vocal signal takes place within the FX
processor.
10. APPLICATIONS