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How to hook these up? (LR Baggs Para DI, QSC K10, mini mixer)
Hello everyone. I'm new to the forum and I have a quick question. I am planning to purchase an LR Baggs para DI, QSC K10, and a little mini Mackie mixer to play live for my church band. I am wondering how you are to go about hooking these up? Does it go like guitar > para DI > mixer > loudspeaker? Just curious! Thanks.
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How far away are you going to be from the mini mixer? Ric
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I'm not sure. Maybe five feet? I honesty just want to skip amps and go straight with the QSC. I am just curious as if I should go straight from guitar into the PA speaker? Do I even need the mixer or the DI?
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It would work that way, but if you are just running solo guitar the para DI and a mixer may be redundant. You need some kind of EQ, and the mixer is nice if you want to add inputs, and possibly effects. What kind of pick-up in the guitar?
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This is my acoustic. I haven't changed anything on it.
http://m.guitarcenter.com/Fender-Tim...06-i1449039.gc And I was thinking about purchasing this mixer for EQ. If I can get by with using just a mixer and a loudspeaker that would be ideal. http://m.guitarcenter.com/Mackie-Mix...58-i3870807.gc |
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You may be happy with that guitar straight into the K10. Give it a try, simple is good.
If you run a line out to the board, the sound guy can handle FOH EQ.
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Well we don't have a sound guy at the moment haha.
So should I just skip the mixer all together? |
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The Baggs Para Acoustic DI has much more useful EQ than the Mackie mixer. If it was me the signal chain would be
guitar -> PADI -> powered speaker If you want, you can add reverb in the effects loop of the the PADI. |
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The mixer may prove to be more versatile in the long run than the para DI, as the K10 is a versatile piece of equipment.
I have a pair that are used as my home stereo, solo amp, floor monitors and small PA, depending on the need.
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The PADI can use phantom power, make sure the mixer you chose has P/P.
The signal chain would be Guitar->PADI->mixer->K10. I'd use an XLR cable from the PADI to the mixer for the signal/phantom power. I recently bought a little Mackie mixer for when I don't want to haul around my Zed 10fx. I haven't put the PADI in front of the mixer yet but I did try out an MSR 10 band eq that did ok.
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