From sevush@rcn.com Thu Nov 07 13:54:08 2002
Subject:RE: God help the Neighbors-The Speakeasy Pre is in my house!

> I, like many others, have been lusting after a Speakeasy but haven't
> been able to pick the right model. It sounds like you have the
> closest rig and musical tastes to mine of any other poster I have
> read. I have a CX3 v1.0 for organ, Alesis QS 8.1 for piano/other,
> and 2 Roland KC-500 amps. Could you explain in more detail how your
> rig is setup? Do you have the stereo Howler?
My setup is strictly mono. I love how stereo sounds, but using FX and/or
dealing w/mono house systems makes it too painful. There have been
discussions in this group before about stereo vs. mono, but the bottom line
is that summing a stereo out can sound worse than a mono signal. Phase
cancellation, comb filtering and all sorts of fun stuff can easily occur.

So, I use the left side of the CX3 and the S80 into their own inputs on the
mixer. The mixer has an aux send pot for each input channel. I plug the
speakeasy into the aux chain - mixer's aux send goes to the speakeasy input,
speakeasy's output goes to the mixer aux return. I adjust the mixer's aux
return and send levels to taste.

Hope this is clearer.