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Choosing Channels for Your Personal Mixing System
Channel selection is one of the most important—and most overlooked—factors in implementing a really successful personal mixing system. Let’s start with a fundamental premise: musicians and engineers...
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Reverb in a monitor mix?
If you want to get an argument started about monitors and monitor mixing, a good topic to go with is reverb. In the years we’ve traveled around the world talking to people about their monitor mixes,...
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Adding Ambience to Your In-Ear Mix: Part 1
One of the best things about in-ear monitors is that they eliminate most of the other sound sources competing with your personal monitor mix, allowing musicians to hear exactly what they want to hear...
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Saving Your Mixes
If you use an Aviom Personal Mixer often, especially while playing with the same musicians, you may find yourself wanting to save your mixes to use over and over rather than always adjusting on the...
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Choosing In-Ear Monitors
We are often asked what in-ear monitors we would recommend for use with Aviom Personal Mixers. While we can’t recommend one specific brand or another, we can offer you some guidelines to help you make...
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Global Trim and Mixing By Subtraction
Conventional wisdom is that a musician will almost NEVER ask for LESS of anything in their monitor mix; it’s always more guitar, more of my vocal, more this, more that. Good engineers know that, in...
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All About Direct Boxes
The passive magnetic pickups on a typical electric guitar produce a weak signal that is not compatible with the line-level input of a mixing console. A direct box—also referred to as a “DI,” which is...
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Adding Ambience to Your In-Ear Mix: Part 2
For an introduction to ambience, start with Adding Ambience to Your In-Ear Mix: Part 1. In this post, we’ll look at specific techniques for adding ambience using room mics. Some Tips for Getting Better...
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An Introduction to the Dual Profile Channel
One of the special features of the A360 Personal Mixer is the Dual Profile Channel. Let’s take a quick look at what it does and the different ways to set it up. “I Can’t Find My Channel!” One of the...
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Exploring the A360’s Dual Profile Channel
In any live ensemble, it’s pretty common to have players that do multiple jobs. As you’d expect, setting up monitors for performers whose jobs are constantly changing can be a challenge. With a live...
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Trim All
Did you ever wish that you could turn down all the channels of your mix so that you could raise one channel just a little bit higher? It’s built into the A360 and A320 and it’s called Trim All. Each...
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Using A360 Display as a Training Tool
There’s one aspect of Aviom’s A360 Display app that may not be readily apparent: using it to train performers how to get a better monitor mix quickly. Remember, giving a musician a way to control his...
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Setting Up Network Mix Back
The D800 Mixes Out port is used with the Network Mix Back feature and the A360 Personal Mixer. Each A360 Personal Mixer connected to the D800 can send its stereo mix back into the network so that it...
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New Features in A360 Channel Manager
Version 3 of the A360 Channel Manager™ application has an updated user interface; adds support for channel, preset, and group naming, and also simplifies integration with the iOS® A360 Display™ app...
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D400-Dante Patching
If you have a Dante-enabled mixing console, the D400-Dante A-Net Distributor makes it easy to add a personal mixing system. Here’s a look at the patching from the Dante Controller software (available...
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Using A360 Channel Manager
One of the coolest features of the A360 Personal Mixer has to be that each A360 can be individually programmed to have the exact channel layout that each performer needs. A Pro16e network can have up...
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Wireless In-Ears: Use The Right Cables
Personal Mixers are great tools for fixing the age-old problems caused by having monitor speakers on a stage. We frequently get questions about how to connect a Personal Mixer’s headphone output to a...
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A320 Modes: 16- or 32-Channel
The A320 Personal Mixer has 16 mix channel buttons. Many people assume that this makes the A320 a 16-channel mixer. But it’s much more than that. Each button can be stereo if you have enough input...
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How A320 Stereo Channels Work
Stereo channels are treated differently on the A320, based on which mode your Personal Mixer is in. The A320 is set for its 16-channel mode by default, making it easy to add an A320 to an existing...
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Mapping Stereo Links
The A360 and A320 Personal Mixers support 16 stereo mix buttons (that’s 32 channels in all). When connecting and configuring inputs, it’s important to understand how the inputs get mapped to the mix...
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