Ignorant summing question....

therecordingart · Aug 17, 2006

Ok,

I want to use 16 outs of my 002R into a mixer. From what I've seen with summing amps is that the audio is either going to the left channel or right channel out of the summing amp. What about stuff that is panned like 40% right? What about the vocals in the center? Do they come out either left or right? If that is the case....what is the point? I can screw up my mixes without any help.

I'm not understanding these passive summing boxes. Maybe I'm thinking of them like they are a mixing console?

pucho812 · Aug 17, 2006

I am curious as to why one would want to go out of the 02r A nice digital mixer into a passive summer but to each his own :? The idea of a summing mixer is to take the stems/submixes of various sources and sum them externally in the analog realm. So you would be taking stereo sub mixes off your 02r and feeding the summing mixer. Obviously panning and outmation is done on the console or the box(daw) and then those subs go to the summing mixer. IF you want to go basic have each summing mixer input go directly to a single output. More advanced would be to have it on a switch and have it do L,C,R so you can have it at both outputs, or have it at L or right out... :thumb:

therecordingart · Aug 17, 2006

002R as in Pro Tools....not Yamaha.

Thanks for your help.

pucho812 · Aug 17, 2006

o.k. most of the quote is usable.

[quote author="pucho812"]I The idea of a summing mixer is to take the stems/submixes of various sources and sum them externally in the analog realm. So you would be taking stereo sub mixes off your 02r and feeding the summing mixer. Obviously panning and outmation is done on the console or the box(daw) and then those subs go to the summing mixer. IF you want to go basic have each summing mixer input go directly to a single output. More advanced would be to have it on a switch and have it do L,C,R so you can have it at both outputs, or have it at L or right out... :thumb:[/quote]

Cainester · Aug 17, 2006

Lets say you take 8 channels of drums from PT and assign them to stereo bus 1 and 2. You've got the OH's hard L/R and maybe some slight panning in the toms. Now assign the output of st bus 1-2 to any pair of outputs...say analog 3-4. Hook analog 3-4 to 2 channels of your mixer and pan 3 left and 4 right. There will be no difference in the panning of your drum submix between monitoring the main out of the 002 and your mixer.
It is the same as assigning a mono channel to a stereo bus. If it is not panned, it will be in the middle coming out of both speakers equally.

Once you experiment it'll make sense.
Caine