4.0: CONSOLE ROUTING
CONSOLE ROUTING
4.0: CONSOLE ROUTING
Understanding the facilities a console offers for routing and controlling audio is an important step in
learning how to operate the Notepad console most effectively.
ThisSectionusessimpleowdiagramsandshortdescriptionstodescribethevarioussignalpaths
and routing options for all channel and bus types. If you have never operated a similar console before,
it is worth digesting all these options before you use the console in a critical application.
In simple terms, audio signals generally move through a mixing console from the back to the front and
from the left to the right. Output signals then leave the mixing console from the back right of the surface.
Signalsgenerallyowthroughtheconsoleinmultiplepathssimultaneously.Onthemostbasic
level,signalsowfromaninputchannel,thenasamixontoabus(Aux,FX,Master),andthroughan
output (Master Stereo Output, Aux Master Output, Monitor / Headphones Output).
For more basic descriptions of the main routing functions, see section 1.0: GETTING STARTED.
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