Connecting Two Analog Mixers Together

[Larry Ball]

The band I am playing with is going through a dilemma regarding mixers trying to decide on our needs. The band consists of 6/7 players depending on the gig. Our current mixer provides enough inputs but we need more monitor outlets. There is 3 outlets now for monitors but we feel that 4 is minimum and more is preferred.

We have explored analog versus digital but as we don’t have a dedicated sound man we think analog is easier to adjust on the fly, plus the learning curve on the digital mixer is extra. We are aware of the monitors differences for personal adjustments between the two types.

So the “Question” is (after the description above) “If we connect two analog mixers together are we able to increase the monitor capacity?

I would appreciate comments for the experts .

Thx


Larry

[Walter Killam]

https://www.amazon.com/ART-T8-8-Channel ... B000PJAKXI

Mics pass through to your main pa, then isolated trs outputs to the monitor mixer. That way with a separate monitor mixer you can pan left and right for 2 mixes in addition to whatever monitor busses are on the monitor mixer. You can sill use the monitor sends from the mains pa, but you can spend a lot of time chasing down feedback. If you decide to go this way, I have a T8 gathering dust right now you can have it for$100 shipped in the conus. I'll throw in an 8 channel trs snake for 20 bucks if I can find it.

PM if you are interested.

Ps just saw you're in Canada I'll stand by my deal for 100 USD and split shipping, alternatively if you have a friend south of the border, the original deal applies

[Larry Ball]

Thx.. We just decided to sell our current mixer and are now trying out an “Allen and Heath WZ 24 mixer..

[David Mitchell]

An audio mixer has sends and the knobs are usually labeled either monitor or echo or effect but they all do exactly the same thing which is send a signal from the input to an output on the back of mixer. No matter what they are labeled they can be substituted for other duties or interchanged. A mixer is limited by how many sends it has but also limited by how many channels can the monitor mix handle. In other words if a mixer has 4 total sends only 4 different monitor mixes are available for those inputs. Some mixers have 8 to 16 sends for monitor mixes. I said all this to tell you I know what I'm talking about and you probably know it too are you wouldn't have asked the question. So here's the answer. Two mixers won't solve that problem because let's say the basic band was all plugged into mixer A and the musicians were hearing 4 different monitor mixes and you plug all the backup vocalist into mixer B. Well the musicians in Mixer A are not gonna hear anything from B because the inputs are not routed there from Mixer B and the only way you can do that is with an electronic circuit with a circuit dividing network and another mixer can't help you with that. You'll have to get a mixer that has more sends on it by itself.