Acoustic, Vox & Looper set up

Longtallronnie

Just looking for suggestions on how best to connect my gear!

My basic set up is 2 inputs:
Acoustic + HX FX
Mic + TC Helicon pedal

I then have a 2 channel graphic EQ, mixer, power amp and speakers. 

Thing is, I want to incorporate the looper on my Line 6 M9 to loop vocal and guitar overdubs. 

Previously I’ve run guitar and vox into separate channels on the mixer > EQ > Amp > Speakers

The M9 then went in the send/return of the mixer but this caused issues with controlling channel levels. 

This setup also uses the EQ as a master for both channels where ideally I’d like to use the 2 channels separately. 

The mixer doesn’t have inserts on each channel (but I might have one that does) so I’m thinking…

Guitar and vox > EQ > Mixer > Looper > Amp > Speakers

This gives me separate EQ control for each channel and solves the level control issues of the previous set up. 

But I’m not sure about having nothing between the looper and the amp as there’s no output level control on the looper?

If you’ve bothered reading all of this, thank you! 

maltingsaudio

Interesting, you  haven’t said what mixer it is but my suggestion is,  put the looper on an aux send ,send the guitar and vox  out from an aux send into the looper and return it back into two channels on the mixer

Longtallronnie

I have this one
https://7132afa424c2f1a2ab6d-54d68a14e2e7c1f76563a2d8c3e9fd82.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/1567/documents/multimix8usb.pdf

and also this one 
https://www.alesis.com/products/view/multimix-8-usb-fx

Which are similar but a slight difference with how the send/returns are routed. 

I hadn’t thought about connecting the return to a channel input. 

I was just using the aux send and return and adjusting the levels on the channel’s aux controls. The problem being that it kinda overrides the channel faders.

As you can probably tell I don’t really know what I’m doing lol!

Will try returning to a separate channel and see how that goes. 

Cheers

maltingsaudio

Bringing it back into the channels will give you a lot more control

Longtallronnie

Yep, it worked so much better! Thanks for the advice.  

maltingsaudio

Pleasure