Jonathan here, this video is all about using your mixer correctly more importantly, looking up those lights on your mixer. Sometimes, they are known as LED’s. They are not there to look pretty and to flash almost like a disco lights. They are actually there for a reason, they are showing you what is happening inside the mixer. That is very important. The track that I am going to be playing is Kelly Rolland, tracking title “Can’t Live Without.” What we will do, we will play the music and we will have a look.
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Now, first of all, the one at the top is called the trend. You should have one of those above each individual channel and then it will be almost like the second volume controls to each channel. And watch what happens when I turn it anticlockwise as far as it will go to roughly about 7 o’clock, no sign at all. As we increase that, we will actually increase the whole volume at 12 o’clock. Now, can you see now it went into the red? Now, ideally, you don’t really need to have anytime it will go into the red. A way of looking it back is if you can imagine, you want tot record something through CD or cassette player anything like that, well, a lot of people will recommend that you will never have anything going into the red. Because what will happen is you are almost starting to get distorted signal. And, if you playback the track you have recorded, you do want to stop hearing any distorted sounds. So ideally, you always need to keep you mixed up out of the red. You don’t want it to go into the red. Now watch what happens now if I press play again, I am going to start increasing the base.
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Turn it at the level, what do you got? You can see now, you are going into the red. Now, on this mix up, there is something in that that is called over. Now the reason they put that there is simply because when you start going too far up here, you are actually putting sound through that particular channel. Now, the actual sound coming out, your speakers can start to sound distorted. But even worst than that, if that is not bad enough, you can actually start to blow speakers. In other word, if you got a speaker and all of a sudden, you think it sounds a little bit muffled, it does not sound as though there is a true quality sound coming through it, it could be that the small speaker and the travel speaker has been broken. If that is gone, then it means you get a really muffled, horrible and negative sound. Then the opposite is all of sudden, you just get high frequencies and you got no base, you got no baseline, what that basically means is that the big one has been broken as well. Now that is what can happen if you put too much power up here and your amplifier is turned up too much. Now, if I play the music again,
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If we set the trim here, so now, what I got is the ambilights just knocking in occasionally. Now again, I can still turn this off because I got my amplifier and I got the maximum volume. Now what can happen, I can still make it go rhyme. But at the same time, it is going loud, I am not putting too many frequencies into this channel here. So, very, very briefly, you find out where the mess around with the base is making trouble, turn the base up by all means, turn the meter by all means, and turn the treble up by all means. But when you start turning up, and you start seeing these lights going into the red, at that point is the point where you should start to turn the frequencies down. A quick insight on that, I hope that’s going to help.
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