NIOA VS-880 TIP 100-0009:

14 inputs!

Do you remember reading the sales literature that bragged the VS880 was a fourteen channel mixer? Here's how.

1.) You've 8 tracks recorded. That would be a total of 8 right?

2.) You've got a total of 4 inputs.

3.) You've got a total of two digital channels. (The digital in has a left and right channel, thus accounts for two more inputs.)

The grand total of the three is 14. Now those fourteen can be mixed and played out through the Master channel to whatever medium you are mixing down to, DAT, etc. Frankly, I'm boggled at this point, since usually, the most material I can come up with will barely fill up eight tracks. But, I hear tell some of you guys have a need for this many.

So, you got your 8 recorded tracks, You got your four whatevers (sequencer, drums, vocals) plugged into the inputs, and you got a digital source adding two more. How do you manage your faders and pans?

Your faders will now do double duty. Just like the shift key on a computer key board that that allows the case to be toggled, the Input Mix and the Track Mix toggles the fader control back and forth.

Input Mix.

While in this mode, the faders and pans will act as control for the six inputs you have coming in. I believe you may also set effect patches here.

Track Mix.

While in this mode, the faders now cease to control the volume and pan of the inputs, but now control the track volume, pan, etc.

As you toggle back and forth, you use the faders for the appropriate set of signal sources, either the tracks or the inputs. This concept crystallized for me when I asked how you control 14 channels with just 8 sets of faders and pans. Once she explained it, the forehead activity commenced. As always with the VS880, each button, fader, light, hole, and display performs double/triple duty because of the smallest of the box.

This mode also is where you record multiple inputs to one track but I'm too worn out from typing for two hours. I'll let someone else 'splain that one if needs 'splainig.

Rick Knepper

rfkiii@swbell.net

Mon, 22 Dec 1997

1998/01


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