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How to mix voice and guitar on an AER Compact 60
I have an AER Compact 60 and would like to mix voice and guitar. I could run a guitar with pickup into the guitar input and a mic into the mic input, but I'd like to mic the guitar and voice both. Is there a way to do this?
Please talk to me like I'm 14. I don't know much about this. |
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Well, one reason would be to blend the sound of, say, a magnetic pickup with the acoustic sound of the guitar.
But to answer the OPs question, a small, inexpensive mixer would do the trick.
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I have a small Bose T1 mixer/tone generator unit that I use with either my Bose L1 Model II or my AER Compact 60... works great and gives me a lot of control over the sound from my guitars and vocal...
Without a mixer, you could buy an in-line impedance matching transformer and plug a mic into the guitar channel... although I'm not sure how good it will sound.
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Because I don't like the sound of pickups on an acoustic.
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I play a Waterloo guitar with an Anthem SL pickup through my Compact 60 and it sounds lovely. If your acoustic pickup doesn't sound good why not replace it with something that does?
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The point of it is to "transform" and match the piece of equipment to the input wanted/needed. There are line-matching transformers that "step up" the signal so it works with a high-impedance input, and others that "step-down" the signal for a mic/xlr input... They are fairly inexpensive, so, worth a try to see if it gives you what you want. They are also good items to have around for any future use, as well... I do second the reply to get a pickup that gives you more of what you want to hear; the result will be much better than attempting to "fix" a pickup that is "less-than"...
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While you can use a mixer, I think what you want is not what the AER was meant to do. I'd get a PA speaker or two. The AER also sounds best to me in a big room.
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I’d suggest that you run a condenser mic or SM57 style dynamic into the mic channel, then run a dynamic vocal mic into the instrument channel with an XLR-Jack lead. There is plenty of gain available on the instrument channel as it’s designed for any and all pickups, both low and high output, and has a pad to adapt for different gain requirements.
This isn’t how AER designed the amp to work, but I see no reason why it wouldn’t get you to where you want to be. I’m a huge fan of AER. Huge. My Compact 60/4 is my favourite ever gear purchase, more so than any of my guitars even. I never play without mine. It’s a marvellous single source sound reinforcement setup, and for bigger gigs a brilliant DI, sidefill monitor and preamp. I love singing through it, too. One thing the C60 excels at, though, is making reasonable acoustic pickups sound great. If you’re struggling to get a sound you like, I’d bet that you would get more mileage from changing your pickup rather than juggling two mics onstage.
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I have the same pickup and it does appear to be the best of its kind, but it doesn't come close to a good microphone, to my ears.
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Hopefully local bars and coffee houses. But the sound quality issue is more about my own needs than it is the needs of the audience, who probably couldn't care less.
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So I can just run both mics into the AER, using different kinds of cables for them. I see. I don't need a mixer, then. I can just use the separate volume settings and simple bass/treble controls.
Thank you. A very simple solution! I have ordered the other kind of cable. |