From sgtpepper@surewest.net Tue Oct 21 12:44:45 2003
Subject:Re: Submixers stereo-mono

Actually, you're both wrong, and you're both right. Depends on the type
on input channel you're using. See my other post.

--The Other Steve

> With all due respect, Dan, you're wrong. A stereo mixer may have left
> and right outputs, but each input channel on a mixer is
> neither "left" nor "right". The pan control adjusts how much of that
> input signal is directed to the left and right outputs (if we ignore
> the possibility of subgroups). When the pan control is centered, an
> equal amount of signal is directed to the left and right outputs.
>
> So if you plug your sine wave into input channel 1 and set the pan
> control to center, the amount of that sine wave coming out of each
> output will be equal.
>
> Again, there's no need to merge the signals after the mixer. By
> panning everything to center, you've set up a two-output mono mix. Send
> one output to the mains, other to your onstage monitor system, and use
> the left and right master controls to adjust the total signal going to
> each.
>
> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, Dan S wrote:
>> Pan is simply a level for each channel - left and right - that is
> inverted
>> with respect to each other. for each.
>>
>> If you are taking the left output, it is "pure" and never mixed
> (normally)
>> w/the right output.
>> Example: run a high pitched sine wave into the left channel and a
> low
>> pitched raucous square tooth into the right. It will be quite
> obvious which
>> channel you're hearing, or if they're blending.
>>
>> Take your left output and run it where you like - amp, FOH,
> wherever. As you
>> play w/the gain for the channel in question, you will hear only the
> sine
>> wave.
>>
>> Now vary the pan control. You will hear the sine wave get softer
> and as you
>> get closer to center, louder. In theory, from center until you're
> fully
>> panned to the left you'll hear no change from the left channel - it
> only
>> gets softer when you pan right so that the right input appears
> louder. You
>> will hear no square wave, except perhaps for crosstalk.
>>
>> As long as this is a STEREO mixer and there's no FX send/summing
> going on,
>> the left output will only represent the information plugged into
> the left
>> input.
>>
>> > --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, Dan S wrote:
>> > > Not complicated, but not correct. Why would they
>> > be "combined/mixed together
>> > > at the main out"??
>> >
>> > BECAUSE THEY ARE PANNED TO THE
> CENTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
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