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Basic Controls
5.2
Aux and FX Buses
StudioLive™ 16.0.2 USB
Owner’s Manual
5.2.4
Creating Monitor Mixes
Creating custom monitor mixes is critical. If musicians can’t hear themselves or their
bandmates, their performance will suffer. A monitor mix can be mono or stereo.
Most often, an individual live monitor mix is mono and is sent to a floor-wedge or
sidefill monitor. (The obvious exception is in-ear monitor systems.) A studio monitor
mix is usually stereo and is sent to a headphone amplifier, so it requires both a left-
and a right-channel input. In both cases, the function of the aux bus is the same.
As an example, let’s create a mono monitor mix on Aux 1.
1. To begin, press the Aux 1 Encoder Mode button. The Fat Channel meters will
display the send level of each of the input channels to Aux 1. The encoders
below each meter control the channel’s level in Aux 1’s mix.
2. Use the encoders the same way that you use the faders to set the output level to
your main mix. Ask your musicians what they would like in their monitor mix and
use their requests as a starting point.
3. By pressing the Select button for Aux 1, you can add dynamics processing and
EQ to the overall monitor mix. These are especially useful for eliminating
feedback in a monitor. Keep in mind that an equalizer can also be used to
increase the presence of an instrument by boosting that particular frequency
range without necessarily boosting the volume in the mix. This is great for
getting the lead guitar to cut through in the guitarist’s monitor mix and to
provide that extra rumble in the bassist’s mix.
4. Use the Aux 1 fader to control the level of the entire aux mix.
You can listen to the aux mixes you are creating, using your
headphones or your control-room monitor, by simply soloing the
aux and selecting Solo as the source in the Monitor section.
To solo Aux 1, press the Solo MultiMode switch and then press the Aux 1 MultiMode
button.
