@@comic4relief some mics need it for their circuitry, to power the mic. These are usually condenser mics and are much more sensitive, with a wider frequency range and they a great for miking an area but they are also sometime handheld mics as well. Thanks for watching!

Typically used for drum overheads, choirs, cymbals, hi hats, percussion etc...

@@meaudiopro Interesting. Thanks. I just bought a Mix8 yesterday from a mom-&-pop music shop. I want to play bass guitar and mix it with music, if only just to hear it; also experiment with the bass having more than one output and blend the signals.

Yes you can.

Does the guitar need to be pre-amp? or can I connect directly into the mixer and have sound out to the headphones?

Usually you can, plug it into a hi z input if you can, or the line input as well. Adjust the gain as needed.

@@meaudiopro thanks 🙏🏽. Still learning about mixers, but All I need is something that’ll let me listen to music and play long my guitar while being able to adjust each volume individually using headphones . I just came across these “guitar headphone amps” that also have a bluetooth capability. They seem to be more affordable but i’m not sure how good the audio quality is.

Thanks for the comment, J R we apparently haven't had the same experience in a professional sound environment because when you need feedback to stop and keep the same volume for an artist, you adjust the frequency that is oscillating to stop the loop. This is a simple mixer tutorial for folks who are getting started. Another thing, I'm not sure where you learned to turn amplifiers and speakers on before the mixer but that is a big no no. Depending on if you are using powered speakers or not. Thanks for watching.

@@meaudiopro Thanks for the detailed reply. You are correct I made a mistake concerning turning monitors after the mixer. I simply got it backward. Score one for you! For example, this video from Behringer says turn speakers on last, and turn them off first. one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6qxk4qhpr2Jb9k That said, I do maintain it is not best practice to power the mixer on before plugging in all the connecting cables to other equipment. I believe it is best to make or break as many connections as possible with the mixer and other gear turned off. Of course, do not always turn the mixer off when connecting or disconnecting a microphone or guitar into the mixer ... but it is best practice to power up after making as many connections with other equipment as possible. I frequently converse with a retired product manager from a major mixer manufacturer, so I maintain that part of my comment. I also maintain my position it is better to manage and cure the cause of feedback than use a very crude, broad band, wide frequency EQ control as if it were a notch filter. That would have a significant deleterious impact on a vocalist's overall tonality. EQ is not the right tool for this job. Better you should remove the cause, such as choose a microphone with a different polar pattern, or alter microphone-to-PA-speaker placement, or relocate PA speakers or move the vocalist to another place on the stage, or some other adjustment. On most mixers, there are only three or four EQ controls, each affecting a wide swath of frequencies. This is a poor way to notch a narrow frequency tone such as feedback. I would never use a control that affects 25% to 33% of the audio spectrum to kill a narrow, almost single frequency feedback tone. No, I would eliminate feedback other ways. Of course, this is just my take, and I could be mistaken, I suppose, considering I am still a rookie at 68 years of age, having mixed my first live band in 1968. So, drive on, soldier - you are free to do as you please! Have a great day, old man. Thanks for the discussion and for catching my error. 🙂 JR

Thanks for watching, all you should have to do is duplicate the way that you have plugged in the computer to the mixer. Check your settings so they are the same. Mics and computers work a little different when you plug them in. Make sure you are plugging into a microphone pre Amp or mic input not a line input. The levels out of the computer are likely much louder, adjust the gain or trim knobs to equalize the input signal levels. Then volume knobs or faders can be adjusted to taste. Some mics are a lower signal level by design, if so you will want to verify and adjust as well. I hope this helps!

It's not ideal, but you can buy a "combiner". It's an dual XLR female to single XLR male adapter. Available at most pro audio stores.

Hello, you can hook up powered subs from the auxiliary out, or the main outs by passing audio through the subs and out to the mains.

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching! They do count the stereo in as well....

Hey Josh, thanks for watching, the purpose of this video is information for my rental customers and folks looking for help on KZbin, Not an audition for audio services. But I do understand what you mean, I made this with a phone 😂

For what purpose?

@@joylesstiger so I don’t have to keep testing what it sounds like before actually recording it

Both are a balanced connection so either one works great.

Hey Lauren, As long as you have POWERED speakers then you only need a mixer,cables and mics. You can yell if you have powered speakers by looking at the back of the speaker and if it plugs into electricity then it has the amp built inside.if that is what you have, run a cable from the main output of the mixer to the input of the powered speaker, turn your mixer on, then your speaker, play some audio and turn up the speaker slowly. If your speaker does not hook up to electricity then it is a passive speaker that will require an amplifier. An amplifier is easy to use, all you do is run a cable from the main output from your mixer into an input on the amplifier, then run a speaker cable the speaker outputs from the amp to connect to your speakers, then turn your mixer on, turn your power amp on, play some sound and turn up the amplifier slowly.

@@meaudiopro I only have a 300 watt powered subwoofer bass speaker which will not work well with mid n upper range vocal mikes; the other speakers are 2 300 watt 5ft tall mid n top range speakers those are not powered...so because we are doing vocal mikes with this setup my friend advised me to get a receiver so i got a 240 total watt one from amazon for $88 he said it will work fine. not playing music thru the system just using the laptop for the music BUT the mixer i got does connect to the laptop so could do that in future methinks...

Use the outputs of the karaoke player and go into 2 channels on the mix8 or 1 stereo channel on the mix 8. As long as you do not use speaker outputs from any device going into a mixer you will be fine.

meaudiopro.com hi, I was thinking using Main Out from Mix8 to connect amplifier which connect to 2 passive speakers. The powered karaoke mixer has 2 speakers connected to it.