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Mixer Guide
 
Auxiliary Outputs
 
Auxiliary outputs, or auxes, are incredibly useful tools. If you can, picture the signal coming into the mixer, going through the gain and the EQ, then hitting an aux knob. That knob controls how much of that signal from that channel gets sent into that aux out.
 
Two other common uses for auxes are reverbs (device that simulate reverberation effects) and subwoofers (loudspeakers designed to reproduce lower frequencies than normal speakers can play).
 
Faders, Pre/Post Fader auxes
 
The fader is used to set the volume of that channel's signal in the mix. It is the most basic component in any channel strip. Faders are essentially volume sliders, set in a logarithmic scale of dB. Faders are also used to set the volume of the buses, or subgroups, and the main mix or mixed mono, and VCA's if applicable.
 
Auxes, are normally pre-fader by default. This means that changing the level of a channel on the fader will not affect the sound of that channel in the auxes. Just after the auxes, is a pan knob. This is simply used to "pan" the channel's signal to left or right. All the way to the left would put the signal only in the left signal, and vice versa, with the middle sending equal to both sides.
 
 

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