Jason Antwi-Appah
Member
Hello everyone!
I know this is a very broad question, but here goes: I'm mixing my school's musical in a couple weeks, and I was wondering how one learns how to mix a show for theatre. I'm aware of what EQ, gain, etc are and how to use the console (we have a Roland M480), but I'm not entirely sure what to do after that, other than ride faders to make sure nothing's clipping too badly I do a bit of music production on the side so I'm used to tweaking stuff until it sounds good, but I wasn't sure if there was some more... methodical approach I could take to mixing. One other specific question I've had is, our auditorium has a left, right, and center set of speakers, and the console seems to have an output setup for the center channel, but I've only ever seen the left and right ones active - am I supposed to mix stuff differently for that center channel? I'm not sure if I actually have control of that center output from the console, or if the DSP just sums the left and right outputs and sends that to center. I've attached a picture of the speaker setup, although it's pretty dark.
I know this is a very broad question, but here goes: I'm mixing my school's musical in a couple weeks, and I was wondering how one learns how to mix a show for theatre. I'm aware of what EQ, gain, etc are and how to use the console (we have a Roland M480), but I'm not entirely sure what to do after that, other than ride faders to make sure nothing's clipping too badly I do a bit of music production on the side so I'm used to tweaking stuff until it sounds good, but I wasn't sure if there was some more... methodical approach I could take to mixing. One other specific question I've had is, our auditorium has a left, right, and center set of speakers, and the console seems to have an output setup for the center channel, but I've only ever seen the left and right ones active - am I supposed to mix stuff differently for that center channel? I'm not sure if I actually have control of that center output from the console, or if the DSP just sums the left and right outputs and sends that to center. I've attached a picture of the speaker setup, although it's pretty dark.