The Complete Guide to Digital Mixer Effects Configuration

Go Full Time In Live Sound: https://www.offshoreaudio.com/live-so... Want to find out your live sound level? Take the Live Sound Level Quiz here: https://www.offshoreaudio.com/quiz - Get better mixes, faster with my 3-step guide to perfect EQ: https://www.offshoreaudio.no/eq Digital Mixer Effects Configuration Have you ever heard a concert with no reverb? Dreadful. Effects are the icing on the cake of the mix, really they’re on of the last things that get any attention after gain, EQ, compression, and monitors. The list goes on, and rightly so, but good effects can really make a good performance great. They can’t make bad things good but a sweet reverb really does bring everything together. There’s a fair bit of understanding needed to get effects up and running on a modern mixer, and it can be pretty easy to leave it to the last minute and then find that for some reason you just can’t get the reverb to work. Some mixers are worse for this than others (looking at you Midas Pro series) In this video, I’ll take you through everything you need to know about the effects on a mixer. You’ll learn: The whole signal path from the input channel to FX engine and out to the speakers, so you can quickly fix any problems when you’re reverb doesn’t work. How to set up your effects so that they suit whatever vocal or style of music you’re working on. My tips on setting up DCAs, and effects returns so that you get the most out of them and how you should use those DCAs.