Don't Mute the Control Room

When working in live settings, maintaining a consistent vocal feed for the lyrics operator during rehearsals, especially when vocals are turned off or soloed for adjustments is a common challenge. Your solution could be creating a dedicated matrix feed that ensures the vocals are always audible to the lyrics operator, regardless of the adjustments you make for the main mix; Lee Fields walks you through how to do just that on the Yamaha PM series of consoles.

Key Points:
  • Maintaining the consistent vocal feed is incredibly important, especially in venues without a dedicated broadcast mix.
  • Lee walks through how to set up a mono aux mix specifically for lyrics, ensuring that vocals are always on regardless of the main mix adjustments.
  • The important thing to remember is that you ensure the mono aux has the right pickoff points (post-dynamics, pre-fader).
  • Lee shows how to set up a matrix specifically for the lyrics feed, including how to send the output of this feed to the necessary location - in this case, the video room.

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