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Sound Advice
by Leon Sievers
Sound Professional
June 23, 2009







Aux Sends are simply what
the name implies, an auxiliary send of the audio signal or source input
for that channel strip. On mixers with "Pre/Post" EQ selector buttons for
these controls, they will come after the EQ section, otherwise they will
be right after the Gain, Trim, etc. This extremely versatile "knob set:
allows you to route the channel signal to an outboard effects processor,
recording device, assistive listening or broadcast output. Additionally
Aux Sends are often used to provide a separate mix for the stage monitors.
The reason for there being more than one Aux Send control on the channel
and more than one Aux Master Control is so that you can mix for more than
one monitor system. The drummer, for example, usually needs to hear himself
and the vocals extra loudly, and the vocalists, of course, need to hear
themselves very loudly while the guitarist might want to hear a predominance
of bass and keyboards because his amp is almost all he can hear.

The EQ or Equalizer section
usually follows the Aux Sends and is usually desirable only on that portion
of the channel signal headed for the FOH system. 

For example, stage monitors
operate in a terribly demanding acoustic environment - speakers are close
to mics and everything tends to be very loud. As a result, the best way
to mix for monitors is to treat them as a totally independent system. Large
concert PA's usually have a separate monitor mixer and someone to run it.
Smaller systems still need to treat the monitor mix as separately from
the main mix as possible. That is why the channel signals would not, as
a rule, be EQ'd before being sent to the Mon/Aux busses. That way, the
only equalization they get will be specifically for the stage monitor system.

For that reason, some mixers
have Aux Send controls after the EQ with "Pre/Post" selector buttons to
put the desired ones through the channel EQ ("Post") or to bypass it ("Pre").
In other mixers, one or more of the Mon/Aux controls may simply be after
the EQ (i.e. "post EQ") and are therefore permanently affected by it. 

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