Say your company tends to work with the same several acts frequently. The ability to recall all the settings for a particular act is a nice thing. Sure, not every setting is going to be the same every time you do an act, but starting from “where it was last time” is much closer than starting with the desk zeroed.

With built in dynamics, very powerful EQ, and usable effects, the small digital mixer is a serious contender for an all in one system.

Subs on an aux

The output EQ is flexible enough to all but eliminate the need for outboard graphics, even on monitors. The effects can be set up so that one of them is a reverb, and the other a tap delay. This allows in tempo delays to be added very easily.

There are some other, maybe not so obvious ways to run the 01v as well. Some examples may include a L/C/R set up for a church. Also, in a typical club system, stereo passive tops, mono subs-on-an-aux and three mixes, without external crossover!

For the first example, the only way this works is if you can get away with only one monitor mix. If so, read on: Assign the channels you wish to be in the L/R feeds to subgroups one and two. This will allow the pan feature to track to the L/R outs. Now, set up aux 3 as a post fade send. Finally, change the routing of the omni outs so that subgroups 1&2 show up on omni outs 1&2. Those are now your L and R sends, with omni 3 being center. Mix on the “home” page and all the channel levels will track the fader moves, and be sent to the appropriate outs.

Optional additional analog inputs

For the second example, start with a default setting where auxes 1-4 show up on omni 1-4. Change aux 4 to post fade. Go to the main stereo EQ, and make the low band a high pass filter, at say 120Hz. Go to the output EQ for aux 4, make the low band a HPF set to keep your subs from over excursion.

Set the hi band as a LPF at say 90Hz. Since these filters are not super steep (the manual doesn’t actually say what the slope is, I’ll assume 12dB per octave), you may need to use one of the remaining bands to remove information above the working band of your subs. An example would be a very lowQ filter, centered at say 600Hz, with a gain of –18dB. Now, since we are running subs off aux 4, we can hook the sub amp right up to aux 4, no other crossover is needed. You will need to assign enough low freq information to the new “sub out” via the aux, just like you would on a big rig running subs off an aux.

For the reasons above, I truly foresee a day when even at the low end of SR, digital mixer/front ends will be the norm.