mrabassist,
All good points to be sure.
I am limited by my understanding of my gear. Time is an issue, but we are in no real hurry other than the hurry we create ourselves. We are not interested in public acclaim or fame and fortune - we want to make good music and record it ourselves up to a point where we feel our material is worth investing money in going to someone's pro studio.
Since our project is more about our own education in how to write, arrange, perform and record as a band, we are not pushed around by demands like, "we gotta get a demo done" or "we need a CD to sell" - all we need to do is increase our understanding of the process and continue to make progress. We are in it for the love of the process.
SO - We do have time to figure all of this stuff out. We DO NOT have $$, however, so if and when we do decide to reach into our own pockets and spend, we need to be fairly sure of what we are buying and why.
I have definitely come to the conclusion that a patch bay would be a very worth-while investment and would solve most, if not all of our signal routing needs. But at this time, there is no more money to be spent so we have to go to our next best solution and figure out how to properly utilize our existing gear.
We have four individual mixers available to us, so I am sure there is a clean routing solution at our disposal. My INSERT question has been more than answered here and in a number of other forums. Half-plug, schmaff-plug, that's just a 'feeling' thing and has little relevance to the bigger picture.
The mixers we have are:
1) Behringer UBB1002 (10 mono channels, L & R Main outs, L & R monitor outs, 2 INSERTS)
2) Phonic MM1002 (10 mono channels, L & R Main outs, L & R monitor outs, 1 aux. out)
3) Studiomaster 621 (6 mono channels, 6 inserts, L & R main outs, L & R monitor outs, SUM out, 2 effects sends)
4) Peavey RQ 2318 (18 mono channels, 16 Inserts, L & R main outs, 1 mono out, L & R monitor outs, 2 Effects Sends)
So CLEARLY, with all of those in our midst, we should be able to easily route signals to our DAW and be able to monitor (via hardware - we don't like ms latency with software monitoring).
I will be there tonight re-re-re-routing again, for the Nth time... But tonight will be the night I get it right-ish.
BTW...
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Originally Posted by mrabassist when i sat down, made a diagram of my console, located all the best outputs and routing sequences, |
Oh, I know! I did that - again using my limited understanding of all this... Here, have a peek!
Google Docs - SignalChain_v2
This was BEFORE we acquired the Peavey RQ 2318. The addition of the RQ 2318 really streamlines our options and I will have to update my signal chain routing diagram.
Thanks again!
--tz