- Hi, I'm Jordan from Kettner Creative.
In this video, we're gonna show you how to set up a podcast
with the Yamaha MG10XU audio mixing console.
Now for this podcast,
we're gonna make a couple assumptions here.
We're gonna assume that you have two different guests
in the room with you, we're gonna assume
that you have one guest on the phone
that's calling into your podcast,
and we're gonna assume that you need
one extra playback device that you're gonna use
to play cues or show reference materials,
something with an audio track that your podcast
is gonna have some commentary about.
We're also gonna use the USB output of this Yamaha MG10XU
to connect to our MacBook here
and we're gonna record the show in GarageBand.
Now for the sake of gain setup with this console,
we're gonna assume that we're live streaming.
I'm gonna show you what that means,
but it is different with how aggressive you are
with the gain, if you're live streaming,
or if you're just recording.
There are different gain settings
that you would use for either situation.
So the first thing that we're gonna do
is we're gonna zero out the board.
So, it's all plugged in and turned on
already connected to the computer.
So we're gonna set this stereo output to this triangle
or unity position.
Even though the stereo output here
doesn't have anything to do with the USB output,
this operates independently of the USB.
The USB gets its output just from the gain
and the output level knobs here
but I like to leave that at zero or unity
or that triangle position, just in case
it's just a good rule of thumb.
It's just first place that I usually start
with setting up a console.
All the other white knobs I'll turn all the way down.
All the green and red knobs
I'll turn to the 12 o'clock position
and the compression I'll turn down.
And noticed a couple of switches here
that have high pass filters turned on already,
so I'm gonna turn those off.
It looks like the board is completely reset now.
So the first thing I'm gonna connect to this mixer
is I'm going to connect our microphones.
So plug the orange cable XLR in the input one,
the yellow XLR cable into input two.
Now I'm gonna grab this orange cable mic,
now on the Yamaha mixer, I find it much easier
and the manual recommends you start with the level,
you put it at that triangle position or zero or unity
that's the best place to start,
and then you increase the gain until you get the level
that you want on these meters.
So as I increase the gain here, like I said,
we're gonna pretend that we're live streaming.
When we're live streaming we wanna get it as close to zero
as we possibly can without ever risking going over.
If your meter goes above zero here, if you hit plus six,
you will experience clipping and digital distortion
that you cannot undo even in post.
So you wanna be pretty safe over there.
So right here, I'm just bouncing off of six
or minus six there and that's a pretty good place.
Now to secure that position for us,
we're gonna add a little bit of compression here,
just up to that kinda two thirds position there
and I think that will help.
That'll add a little bit of gain
but it'll also reduce the threshold
and the compression ratio to help us keep within
the limit that we're aiming for.
I think that's a great starting point for this microphone.
Now our second microphone here is exactly the same
as the first, we can just copy paste the settings
we know exactly where we're headed with this.
Now for either microphone for EQ
I like to keep them pretty flat for podcasts
I don't like to mess with it so much.
If you do have a lot of guests that can get kind of muddy
and you may wanna turn on this high pass filter,
I'll put that on.
There's an 80 Hertz roll off there just to clean up
some of the mud and we're gonna leave the pen.
I always leave the pen right in the middle,
and we're gonna deal with this effects send later on.
So I'm gonna turn these all down,
I realized I just missed those
when I struck the board at the very beginning.
So I'm gonna turn those down now
and we'll come back to those
when we go to set up our phone caller.
Next we'll set up our phone caller.
So in order to get a phone guest connected
to our audio mixer, we're gonna use
what's called a mix-minus setup.
What a mix-minus setup does is it allows us to send
the whole mix to our guests on the phone,
but we wanna minus themselves.
If we just send them the whole mix using a stereo output
up here, they're gonna hear themselves with a half a second,
one second, maybe two second delay,
depending on the cellular network
and it's either gonna create like a reverb effect,
an echo or feedback or it'll always
be just super distracting to the guests
that's on the phone.
So we don't want them to be able to hear themselves
so I'm gonna show you how we do that.
My phone here doesn't have a headset output,
but I'll use this lightning to headset adapter.
What this does is it's different than a headphone jack,
a headset adapter will give us three different
inputs and outputs.
It gives us a line in to the phone
and it'll give us a headphone jack out,
a stereo left and right out of the phone.
So we're gonna connect, we have this little adapter here.
Now, if you wanna look up pricing or specs
for anything in this video, we have links down below.
So what this adapter does is it plugs into that
TRRS headset jack there, and it gives us this breakout.
So it gives us a true headphone jack here
a stereo headphone jack and an XLR input
that we can feed from the board.
So, first we're gonna deal with the headphone jack
from this phone.
As with any other headphone jack
that we plug into a Yamaha mixer
or any other small mixer like this,
if we want stereo, we're gonna take a headphone jack
and convert it to two quarter-inch cables.
So you can see one of these has a red sleeve
red is always right.
So we're gonna plug that into five, six on the mixer
and then with our little adapter here,
we're gonna connect this headphone jack
to that eighth inch cable that we just plugged in.
Next, we have an XLR cable here.
It's gonna be really tempting to plug this
into the stereo output of the mixer
but like I said, we don't wanna send the stereo output,
we wanna send the effect send.
Now I'll walk through that once we plug this in.
So this affects send,
then we have a balanced quarter inch cable here
that goes all the way to XLR,
so I'll plug that into our phone
and our phone is fully connected to the audio mixer.
So like I said, we wanna use this effect send.
So in order to do that, we can't use the effects
the effects all need to be turned off
and then this affects send will functionally work
as if it was an auxiliary send or a monitor channel.
So in order to send a mix-minus to the phone,
we need to turn all these effects send
all the way up to that triangle position there
except five, six.
We don't wanna send five, six,
because then you would be going back to itself.
Now obviously, it's not necessary for you
to turn all these up, we only have two microphones so far,
but I'm just doing it to illustrate
that we're sending the whole mix minus five, six,
that's turned down.
So now our phone is already, we're just gonna hit play here
and if we turn out five, six, we should see
that meter moving.
So that's great, we know it's working.
So so far, we're just doing this all visually.
If you want, you could be monitoring it on your computer
or using headphones, but we'll be testing it
at the end as well.
Next, we're gonna plug in one more input,
another stereo input, we're gonna pretend like we have
an iPad or something like that.
Here we don't have one, but we'll just plug this
into seven and eight
and then plug this into our fictional laptop
or iPad that we would use for audio playback.
So this is now looking like a pretty typical
home podcast set up.
We have two microphones, we have a phoning caller
and we have something that we can play music,
maybe we were talking about YouTube videos
or something like that coming in through that input there.
So now let's look at GarageBand
and we'll set up GarageBand to make sure that
it's recording everything that's going on on this mixer.
So in GarageBand, we'll start a new empty project.
It'll detect the mixer here, and you can see that
we have a bunch of input choices.
We just wanna bring in this stereo
we're not multi-track in here.
So we're gonna select that
and as we speak into one of the microphones,
we can see that that meter is now moving in GarageBand.
That's exactly what we want.
So the reason that we don't multi-track it in GarageBand
is because with this audio console,
we have a separate video on how to multi-track record
with this audio console, but this audio console
can only multi-track two inputs and as you can see here,
we have one, two, the phone is three and this other lap top,
or whatever we're using here would be four.
So we can't multi-track.
We've exceeded the limit for how you could
so we're just gonna record the stereo mix.
So over in GarageBand here, we're just gonna hit record.
This is our yellow guest speaking,
this is our orange guest speaking,
and we'll pretend that this music here
is our phoning caller
so you should be able to hear some music there.
Oh, I don't have it turned up.
(upbeat music)
There we have some music,
that's good and then we'll just test
the other input now as well into seven and eight
we'll plug that, hit play and that's seven and eight.
(lively music)
So there you have it, we have everything all set
and tested with the mix-minus setup.
The only thing that we can't test is the two way
with the phone, you just have to take my word for it
that it does work as long as you have the same settings
as me here.
If you have any questions or comments,
please leave a comment in the comment section below.
Again, if you want pricing or specs
for any of the microphones, cables or adapters
or anything that you've seen in this video,
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to help you out.
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Thank you for watching.
(lively music)