MAJOR SEVEN MUSIC

DIGITAL AUDIO MIXERS

Why go digital? You may ask. Here are some good reasons:

1. Ability to Store and Recall Settings Instantly.

A digital mixer will allow you to make screen shots to store all the settings on your mixer such as equalizer settings for all channels, channel volume settings, master volume settings and so on. A good digital mixer such as the Yamaha LS9 can even store the settings of individual channel’s input gain settings which means that virtually every setting on the mixer can be stored. This is extremely useful for sound engineers so that once the best sound setting have been set, you may store it and recall it anytime you want. You will never need a pen and paper to write down the settings manually again! It’s Eco-friendly too! Now, imagine a scenario where you have many bands performing with the same set of musical instruments. With a conventional analog audio mixer, the sound man will have a difficult time remembering the settings for different bands and it takes a lot of time to set and reset channels as different bands perform. The setting and resetting of channels will not only waste time but error can occur as humans are not perfect. A digital mixer will allow you to accurately and instantly switch between numerous different settings with a touch of a button.

2. Added functionality and features enabled by softwares

The analog mixer that we know of normally only functions as an audio mixer solely and its main function is to mix and balance out all the channel’s audio and frequency settings as well as to determine the level of the main and monitor mixes. However, present softwares now allow digital mixer to have much more features such as built-in compressors / gates for audio dynamics control, delay / reverb unit for audio effects, 31-band equalizer for main and monitor mixes and so on. This will mean that all the extra audio processing devices that we normally need to buy when using conventional mixers will not be needed anymore! With digital technology, everything is built-in! The Yamaha LS9 will even allow you to do a simple recording in mp3 format and directly save it to your external USB drive such as your thumb drive or external USB harddisk!

3. Clean and supreme audio with no signal loss

With conventional mixers, we normally connect multiple audio processing devices between the input and output of the mixer and also between the output of the mixer to the speaker system which means that a lot of cables are used. The more cable runs, the more the signal loss. With digital technology, all the signals are processed digitally to avoid any signal loss. It is extremely accurate as all the processing, interconnection between different sound processing modules are done digitally.

For more reasons on why to go digital, you may click on the following link to Yamaha’s website

http://www.yamaha.com/ca/productdetail/0,,CNTID%25253D451996%252526CTID%25253D,00.html

An example of a good digital mixer is shown below:

THE YAMAHA LS9-32 DIGITAL AUDIO MIXER

If you’re interested in going digital, you may call us for more details on the product and the pricing.