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Active Mixer: 4-Track Reel to Reel Tape Recorder

From Expert Village, I'm Kurt Glaser talking to you KGB Studios Seattle. Well, now that we've got all four tracks laid, what we want to do now is learn a little bit more about the mixer. The mixer is where you mix it all together. Let's take a look at the mixer. This is a classic type of power mixer made by Yamaha and it actually supports what I'm doing here at KGB Studios right now, and that is band practice. But, it also doubles as a nice recording console. It's a fairly quiet board. Basically, what happens, the plug-ins are in the front and right here we're plugging in from the tape recorder, which I'm going to kind of pan down here and show you how we've actually connected those. We've got the connections on the RCA side, right here for right. And, of course, red and white. And then, behind them, we have the other two. So this is the rear right and the rear left. And then, this is where the front output right and the front output left are plugged in. Front output right, front output left are plugged in. And then that trails up to be terminated right here and here. So we have all four of the outputs now going into the mixer. So let's continue with the mixer. The mixer actually comes from the top down on this whole thing. And it's really not as complicated as you might think. You have the line, you have the instrument and you have the microphone on a toggle switch here. A three-position switch. And then have where it fits in the position in the stereo spectrum, either extreme left of extreme right or in the middle. We're going to put this one on the left, the other one is going to be on the right. This next channel is an effects channel, which we're not going to deal with. I have it connected interestingly to a Fender Twin reverb amplifier, reverb spring. Now these two here are your equalization curves. This is your high frequency. This is your low frequency. On mixing, I actually set them fairly flat. I don't add a whole lot of EQ when I mix. And then, down here, is the amount of volume that you use in the mixing of the stereo signal. Or, in this case, the four signals. Same things on these two channels here, all the controls are identical. And this is what a mixer does.

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