how to ride 2 mixer faders

For discussion about setting up your studio and advice on the gear and equipment within it.
 Reply Share on Facebook

how to ride 2 mixer faders

By StayKrushN Mon Mar 21, 2016 11:00 pm
A mixer has 4 Sub Outs. You want them to act as two Stereo outputs. (Sub 1 + Sub 2) and (Sub 3 + Sub 4)

If you want your original stereo source to stay the same, how do you make sure the separate faders rise and fall the same?

It would be nice if the mixer had an option where Sub 1 & Sub 2 would act as a stereo out and you could just ride Sub 1's fader.
User avatar

Re: how to ride 2 mixer faders

By Ill-Green Wed Mar 23, 2016 7:28 pm
Can't have stereo and want to control it like mono. Stereo will always be double the work, so you'll have to ride those gains with two fingers.

You have sub1 acting as L channel and sub2 as R channel so automatically it will stay stereo but each sub is adjusted individually, so either get used to stretching your fingers or route the stereo mix to the Main out and control it with the master volume.
User avatar

Re: how to ride 2 mixer faders

By The Jackal Sun Mar 27, 2016 12:39 am
Do you have a spare audio channel on your mixer still? Find a Y cable that bounces down from 2 inputs to 1 output, plug one input into Sub 1 Insert, the other into Sub 2 insert, then plug the other end into a free input channel on your mixer.
User avatar

Re: how to ride 2 mixer faders

By Wal Martian Wed Mar 30, 2016 5:13 pm
The Jackal wrote:Do you have a spare audio channel on your mixer still? Find a Y cable that bounces down from 2 inputs to 1 output, plug one input into Sub 1 Insert, the other into Sub 2 insert, then plug the other end into a free input channel on your mixer.

Cables can't sum signals. If you do this you will hear Sub 1 or Sub 2, not a mixture of both.
Last edited by Wal Martian on Wed Mar 30, 2016 5:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.
User avatar

Re: how to ride 2 mixer faders

By tapedeck Wed Mar 30, 2016 5:20 pm
The Jackal wrote:Do you have a spare audio channel on your mixer still? Find a Y cable that bounces down from 2 inputs to 1 output, plug one input into Sub 1 Insert, the other into Sub 2 insert, then plug the other end into a free input channel on your mixer.

do not do this. it is a classic noob mistake.
if you want to do this right, you have to build in a tiny circuit to make this work properly, and you end up with half the signal strength on each channel.

what you are asking for is totally dependent on the mixer and it's own implementation. what is so bad about using your finger to move both faders at once anyway?
 Reply
Return to Studio Set Up & Gear Advice