Yamaha MG166c AUX Sends And Return Knobs?

[sjoens]

Aside from the channel strip AUX send knobs, the MG166c also has RETURN and SEND knobs in the Master section.

The STEREO RETURN adds the effect signal to the main mix. AUX RETURN knobs appear to send the return signal back thru the effect loop which can cause serious feedback or signal doubling. Anyone have examples of how these would be used?

Thanks.

[Amberwolf]

I've never really dived into mine for any of the sends, but when i found mine a few years ago at goodwill and started looking up information on it so I could find or build a power supply for it, some of what I read said that there were some combinations of send/return setups that would / could never be used together, and that you'd decide which one to use based on whether you needed it before or after some other part of the mixer (fader, etc), or if you were using it to send a specific mix or set of channels to a monitor for a specific player, etc.  

I don't remember enough of the routing specifics to be certain of this, but I think you can choose which aux you're sending to in each strip, or not send at all, to send to a specific fx box or a specific player monitor, etc.    

 

The manual describes the controls on each part of the mixer, but assumes you already know what that kind of control does.  I only have very basic familiarity with mixers, so most of it I didn't follow very well. 

  It also has a "schematic" showing how signals are internally routed from place to place, where they are buffered, switched, amplified, etc., but it's probably tough to follow if you aren't familiar with electronics schematics.  

 

(I had intended to experiment once I got it wired into the whole system, was going to use it to replace my ancient MOTU MM7s that I no longer had an easy way to control (ancient laptop with my touchscreen setup had died) and setup all my external hardware to be able to use my two rack fx (Alesis MV III and Lexicon something-or-other thrifstore find) and/or my ASR88's internal FX on the auxes / fx loops, then back into my GL8*24's rackbox....but then a bunch of bad stuff happened to some of my dogs, one after another, and I never got back to it.  Since I haven't even turned the rack on with that stuff since then, I doubt I'll ever get back to using it.  So if anyone needs a cheap mixer, or some ancient rack FX...  ). 

 

 

 

[sjoens]

Yeah I figured I'd just have to fiddle with it as Yamaha manuals aren't much good beyond stating the obvious with some descriptions not so obvious.

With 3 AUX sends I can use 1 for outboard FX and the other 2 can feed interface inputs giving me 6 outputs with the 4 GROUP sends.

Currently using a channel strip for AUX1 returns so that return knob would be DOA I guess.  And with only one stereo return jack, the other 2 would have to use channel strips I don't have.  Good thing I don't need them ATM.

Edited Wednesday at 04:07 PM by sjoens