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Re: your signal chain?



At 12:55 PM +0100 12/20/04, jan wrote:

>And for the nerdy and intimate stuff, i love schematics of your 
>signal chain. Since im not aware of how my setup will be in the end, 
>and since im missing a hardware looper, i really get a kick of 
>seeing pictures and as i said schematics of peoples signal chain 
>with or without laptops : )

No pictures, but a simple description:

My typical setup uses three Eventide Ultr-Harmonizers (H3000, 
DSP4000, Orville) and a Mackie 1604 mixer. Aux sends feed the 
Eventides. The Eventide outputs are patched to channel line inputs.

Whatever the signal source may be (another musician or musicians, CD 
or other playback devices) also comes in through channel line or mic 
inputs.

This is the same garden-variety path I've used since about 1980, when 
I started doing electroacoustic performance as a mixer/processor of 
other performers. It allows any signal to be routed to any processor, 
including routing of one processor to another processor (I've even 
routed a processor to itself, though this takes steady nerves and 
good ears).

The Mackie is not a perfect mixer for this setup because it doesn't 
allow arbitrary pre/post selection on any auxiliary, but it suffices 
for most situations.

Lately I have been driving both inputs of each Eventide with a single 
aux send (this keeps things simple, with just three auxes to keep 
track of) but in the past I have driven each 'tide with two auxes. 
This allows better stereo imaging and supports the vocoder algorithm, 
but in the kind of wild and wooly improvisation I prefer it tends to 
complexify things a bit to have six aux sends and as many as 14-16 
inputs.
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