The Best Sound Mixer Tuning Guide

WHAT IS A AUDIO MIXER?

Mixer is an audio signal mixer used to process audio. This is considered an extremely important device, as the "processing center" of the whole sound equipment in any event program. The mixer is a place to receive information from microphones, musical instruments, and other sound-emitting devices. After receiving, the mixer will process the signal. Then, a single signal is generated and fed to an amplifier.

IS ADJUSTING THE SOUND MIXER difficult?

For an audio system operator , a mixer is an indispensable device. It helps the tuners to produce a professional and good sound quality according to their wishes. Therefore, how to adjust the mixer is an important skill that you need to have when you want to use or work in the audio field.

To answer the question of whether it is difficult to adjust the mixer, in fact, if it is a field that you like and want to pursue, it is not difficult at all! Mixers have knobs to adjust the sound and each button will have a different function. As long as you learn carefully the functions of each type, adjusting vocals, voices, reverb, echo as well as compressor, limiter becomes very easy, even amateurs can do it.

HOW TO ADJUST THE BEST MIXER TABLE

Below is the information that HSV Media has compiled to share with you about the most basic mixer knowledge and adjustment, you need to know before you want to learn more about how to use a professional mixer. .

1. Adjust the mixer according to the vocals

Currently, singing is an indispensable need in many programs and requires a sound system of sufficient quality to serve this need. Each person has a different voice, so to be able to adjust the mixer properly, you need to understand the vocal characteristics of each person as well as the equipment included in the karaoke set: karaoke speakers, karaoke microphones, equipment the rest of the set.

That's why everyone has a different voice and volume. But in general, when considering the characteristics of the human voice, it will be divided into two types: male and female voices.

Male voices often have a vocal range mainly in the bass and middle, and female voices will often be treble, so mixer tuners must pay attention to adjust the voice to become clearer. However, adjusting the mixer for clear vocals needs to be reasonably balanced in terms of frequency range. Some points you need to keep in mind are:

- People with vocals containing bass and middle will bring high "influence" and easily convey emotions to the listener's mind. Therefore, people who sing well at this frequency range are often very beneficial, just need to adjust a little more treble to have an extremely attractive voice. Note that you can reduce a bit of bass and middle on the low mixer to avoid causing howls and hisses affecting the performance.

- People whose vocals contain treble will give listeners a feeling of lightness and clear sound. However, if you listen to it often, it will get boring. Therefore, the way to adjust the mixer for this case is that you should add bass and middle to make the voice fuller and more attractive.

2. Distinguish between Echo and Reverb when adjusting the mixer

These two effects are very confusing when adjusting the mixer. While the Echo creates a reverberation like when you scream in the caves, the Reverb/delay creates the lengthening of the sound, making the vocals or guitars more expressive and deeper when singing. .

Echo effect will be common in home karaoke system. In fact, many people mistakenly believe that this effect will make the voice better, but many Echos make the sound sound "virtual", not clear. As for singers with many years of experience when singing on stage, they will use very little Echo and always have a combination of Echo, reverb/delay... to create the most harmony in their singing.

3. Compressor and limiter handling

In an event or music program, it is impossible to ignore the compressor and limiter applications. When processing sound, it is necessary to pay attention to the harmony between the voice and the instrument and the accompanying audio equipment. Therefore, the technician's job needs to be most important to adjust the compressor accordingly. For example, if the sound is too loud, then "pull the compressor" down, if it's too low, "raise the compressor".

However, if you do not have the knowledge and experience on how to properly adjust the mixer, you will not know how to handle it skillfully in this case, you will easily lose the "adventure" of the sound. The best way is to divide the compressor for each different frequency band to control the sound effectively. As for the sound limiter, the sound limiter will not exceed the threshold you allow, limiting the phenomenon of "over" causing hissing, breaking sound, damage to things.

Above is the article that HSV Media wants to share with you in the hope that it will bring you a lot of useful information and knowledge about audio mixers.

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