{"id":12202,"date":"2001-09-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=12202"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"what-best-preset-going-main-outs-mixer-through-bluemax","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/what-best-preset-going-main-outs-mixer-through-bluemax\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the best preset going from my main outs on my mixer through the BlueMax and into a PA amp?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best pre-set for you depends on the dynamic range of your performance. If the transients of the performed portion of the mix are more or less the same as the pre-recorded portion, then Stereo 2 would probably give you your best result. If you normally find that the performed portion of your performance exceeds the pre-recorded  portion by a good bit, then one of the vocal pre-sets that tends to smooth out the level would be most  appropriate. Vocal1 will have the least dynamic control and Vocal 3 will restrict the dynamics the most. I would think your best approach would be to try and place your voice and instrument &#8220;in&#8221; the mix. This will give your performance the most polished sound. However, most &#8220;live&#8221; performances tend to have the vocal in front of  (read:louder) the mix. You should be aware that, while the BlueMAX won&#8217;t mix your performance, it will go a very  long way toward helping you to maintain a coherent &#8220;front of house&#8221; blend without actually manning the faders. A less sophisticated approach that will afford you absolute speaker protection and retain musicality while doing so,  is Stereo 2 &#8211; Brick wall Limiter. This pre-set will protect everything downstream from the BlueMAX and retain a pleasing sound even when the limiter is slammed. I do think a pre-set is the way for you to go, however a &#8220;best&#8221;  pre-set will greatly depend on, as I have pointed out, just what it is you are after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[1],"tags":[],"storecat":[],"itemids":[19501],"manufacturers":[33631],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the What is the best preset going from my main outs on my mixer through the BlueMax and into a PA amp? page at Sweetwater \u2014 the world&#039;s leading music technology and instrument retailer!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/what-best-preset-going-main-outs-mixer-through-bluemax\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What is the best preset going from my main outs on my mixer through the BlueMax and into a PA amp? - SweetCare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The best pre-set for you depends on the dynamic range of your performance. 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