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WIRING MY ANALOG OUTBOARD STUDIO?!?

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GEAR-HEAD

To me this may work, but I'm not an ENGINEER- @ BEST a WANNA-BE ENGINEER. I'm in radio, know radio, programming/ on-air/ promotions/ marketing, but STILL LEARNING the wiring up of my home studio.

I have a SOUNDCRAFT ES-14 MIXER. My question is what is the best way to wire up my EQ/ digital compressor/ kosmos sound enhancer?

I'm thinking that I can hook up the output of the compressor to the input of the kosmos, then the output of the kosmos to the input of the eq then the eq to the board...

Would that work?!?

Do I need a patch bay? Not even quite sure how a patch bay works...

I'd appreciate any advice you could give,

THANKS!
 
Do you plan to change your configuration often? If not, then a patch bay probably isn't necessary. Though, it may make experimenting with different configurations easier. I'm not familiar with the mixer you have, so I can't comment on it's in/out puts, but the order of the devices depends on the sound you are going for.

My personal preference is to put the compressor last in line if you intend to run everything through it (voice, music, etc), unless you intend to use the compressor as a leveler, then I think it should go before the enhancers. If you only intend to run a mic channel through the compressor, you might consider using one of the FX or aux send and returns on the mixer if available. This way, you can beef up your voice work, without affecting the dynamics of the music, which may not like the settings you have dialed in for your voice.

Full disclosure, I'm not an engineer by any stretch.
 
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