hey how's it going this is jay with kinetic and today i'm going to give you my number one requested video and that is how to route with the yamaha ql or cl digital console for this video i'm going to use the yamaha ql5 and all of the routing principles that i teach you work pretty much exactly the same with the yamaha cl line now again this is the number one requested video i've had i don't think i know everything but i have had this console since the ql line came out and i've used cl consoles for about seven years and i've used yamaha consoles in general for about 12 years so i think i got it down but if somebody wants to chime in if i miss something go ahead anyway stay tuned this is how to route using a yamaha ql or cl digital console and i'm going to try and cover as much of the routing possibilities as i can stay tuned [Music] remember to like and subscribe okay so i'm not going into effects routing or the talkback section because i believe those deserve their own videos and kind of get in depth i just wanted this to kind of be like basic routing you know where can you move inputs and mixes and stuff kind of around and let you know the basic workflow that way you can get creative and you can start moving things around in a way that you like that's what's so beautiful about the yamaha boards is they're not just a rigid linear system they're really designed for you to kind of route how you want it's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum and i'm all out of gum the first thing i want to start with is how to route a mono input into your stereo bus this is the easiest thing to do let me walk you through it i have my ipad playing some music i have that routed to input number one i have input number one selected right here in the head amp section is where you can patch i have input one selected i see it metering here i see it metering in my dynamics section i know i have it now if you look inside the pan section you're gonna see a stereo button turning that button on will route channel one or any channel you have selected to your stereo bus right there now i have it justified left right now but we could just have it be justified center and then route it into the stereo bus so it's going to go straight to left and right but center justified and can bring my fader up there and bring up the stereo bus and you guys can hear it and not routed routed really simple really simple way to route to your stereo bus by default your stereo bus is outputs 15 and 16 on the ql5 now i'm going to show you how to route a stereo source to your stereo buss so i'm going to send stereo for my ipad to channels one and two i'm gonna go into two the patch i see two dripping right there i select two i'm going to toggle between them both and make sure that the head amps are the same they're both at plus five i'm gonna go to left make sure it's justified all the way left left is input one i'm gonna select two make sure that's justified all the way right and then here's a quick trip quick and now here is a quick tip you can either go channel job channel link and then from there hold down one and two or simply hold down one and select two and you go to the same menu and you want them selected and now they will show up as link a with one and two selected i make sure that they are both sent to the stereo bus one panned left two panned right and now tada i have now sent a stereo source to the stereo bus next i'm going to show you how to route to the mono bus now you do that the exact same way i could select the mono bus here and if i look on the right side of the console the mono bus is there and by default this is not selected for any omni it is selected for your dante 27 but where for the purposes of this we're gonna make our mono bus we're gonna call this omni output number eight and i'm gonna go physically route that real quick we are going to turn channels one and two back into mono sources so hold them down get rid of link a now they're mono number one i am sending to my mono bus bring it up bring up the mono bus set that to unity and now the mono and we'll just re-justify that center because it's a mono source and now our mono source justified center is sent to the mono bus let's rock all right now i'm going to send channel 1 into a mix so i'm going to play some music make sure i see my meters i'm even going to trim it up a little more and kind of get a better gain structure there so i want to see it blipping there we go around minus 30 we generally minus 30 8 minus 18 is good depending on the source and the feel of what we're trying to do now number one right now is routed to my stereo bus and my monobus but let's route it some other way so we can if we're doing monitors or we have other rooms anything like that if i select this button right here so inputs 1 through 32 33 through 64. my stereo inserts and my dca groups and the last button is my mix in my matrix so right now i'm going to route channel one into mix one for that i want to show you guys another cool trick and that is a user defined key that i really like so let me all right so i am going to program user defined key number one to be a button called set nominal and you can have it be any button but set up we're going to go to setup user setup user-defined keys and number one we are now going to set to set nominal you're thinking what is set nominal j that is when i hold this down you'll see the console light up and now anything i tap will be routed to its unity value we can also do that within a mix so it's a quick way i want to route channel one into mix one so i'm going to tap button one which is mix one and i wanna send channel one to it now i can hold down let me walk around i can hold down our set nominal button and now channel one is routed straight to it perfectly at unity but what's beautiful about set nominal is what if i want to route all of this to mix one i can do that and now all of these things are set to mix one the mixes by default are pre-fader if you would like to set them to post fader what you can do is you could tap on the mix and then we could say all post and the pre button goes away now these are post faders so let's do a quick post fader mix and kind of check that out so we're gonna treat mix one as if it's a speaker in another room monitor somewhere just something else that we need to send audio to now keep in mind mixes can be a group or you could treat a mix just like a second bus lane so what we're gonna do right now is route channel one into mix one now i'm going to set mix one to post again it's all pre at the start i'm gonna go all post so that it follows my kind of home post fader workflow i'm going to select mix1 i'm going to route you can either route like this or you can hold down like i just showed you set nominal i set nominal inputs one and two are sent to mix one now i want to make sure mix one is patched accordingly i hit the mix matrix button i tap mix one and i want this to be output number one now and just to show you it's not in stereo it's not in mono it is sent to mix one and post fader so my on off button here is going to toggle that let's rock we want next scenario we want to make mixes one and two stereo and we want them to be a stereo bus of some kind so the first thing we need to do is we need to go into setup bus setup we need to select mix and then to stereo now we could set pan link up and that way panning is going to follow our inputs and now input 1 we're gonna pan this all the way left input two all the way right we're once again and if you look the gain structure's off so before we do that we're gonna match them plus five plus five and take them out of our stereo bus and mono bus and we are going to link these one and two are now stereo a stereo input pair panned left and right and if you look the mix section for that has changed now we have our panning value here and then how much of the send is going to that mix i'm going to tap mix 1 and i am going to route to that so inputs 1 and 2 are sent to the stereo pair and if you look here like the routing is the same right because it's a stereo pair so if i dip that one and i go to two and put it into two it's still in one so we have now made one and two a stereo mixed pair put them into it and now when i bring it up [Music] i've made mix one and two a stereo pair and then routed to that yeah piece of cake the cool thing about the matrix which is also found on the last button here is traditionally your a matrix would be used to route a mix into a matrix but a matrix can also have inputs routed straight to it so if you wanted to use a matrix just like a mix you totally can and maybe maybe you have like 20 different auxes to who knows what and you got 16 mixes run into things and you just need like another four mixes going to them and you don't necessarily want to route a mix into the matrix you just want to treat the matrix like a mix so we're going to do that and matrix number one i'm going to now route channels one and two which i'm getting my ipad from to that so i have channels one and two selected i'm going to tap the matrix tab i'm going to highlight the matrix i want and then i'm going to use my encoder to send that value to it so because channels 1 and 2 are linked the same value is sent to matrix one i'm going to go to matrix one i'm gonna make sure that's patched the way i want so that's outputting to omni one which is this little speaker right here and now [Music] you didn't think i knew about reggaeton did you now what if we want to make mix one a group of something maybe lapel mics or video inputs a mono input we'll we'll make mix one and two a stereo group and then we're gonna route that stereo group into a matrix now the matrix buses and stuff are the same as the mixes in the sense that they could take inputs but they can also take mixes so the routing flow would be inputs into mixes mixes into the matrix and the matrix would be the end of your chain so let's do that we've already made mix one and two a group but rather than sending them out we are going to if you delete the patching here it's not going anywhere it's just an internal group we have made mix one and two a group now we are going to route that into the matrix so we are going to select matrix one but before we need to do that because mix one and two is a stereo group we're gonna make matrix one and two also stereo group again setup and bus setup select matrix matrix 1 2 stereo i want the panning to follow so i'm going to hit pan link and now if i select matrix 1 it's going to say from the mix so i'm going to take from mix 1 route it all the way to unity and if you look if i select mix 2 that's already there as well we once again have to patch we're going to set the output to be output one and we'll clear the other stuff make it just output one and have matrix right b output 2. now when i bring the inputs up you can hear the music and they're going to mix 2 as a group but it's ending at the matrix now maybe you're asking yourself why would i want to do that well by the time you get to the matrix you could have a potential of six insert points i have inputs one and two selected here and in my insert you get insert one and insert two if i select the mix i have insert 1 and insert 2 and if i select the matrix i also have insert 1 and insert 2. so you can have the potential of stacking up to 6 inserts before your signal actually reaches its end point so inputs into mixes mixes into the matrix life is like a box of ammo okay i'm going to show you guys something now that often gets overlooked and that is routing your stereo bus into a matrix and then sending the matrix out to be something or or do something there but people often overlook this and in certain instances it can be useful so from the start i'm going to do everything mono and just do one input put this guy to unity make sure my gain is a little more appropriate that looks better there and channel one is being sent to the stereo bus and i don't have the stereo bus outputting to anything right now because my endpoint is going to be the matrix so if i select my stereo buss i can go into the matrix and i'm going to send stereo left to matrix one and if you guys see matrix one is blipping right here and if i tap again i'm going to send stereo right into matrix 2. now another good thing to remember you guys see them both kind of flipping right here that's that's running it a way to kind of skip that step again is set up and if i go into bus setup i can go to matrix matrix one two stereo and set my pan link there and now left and right are already there i can set matrix one to be this speaker and we'll turn it down so doesn't blare and [Music] stereo left and right is now feeding the matrix [Music] and once again that's just another way to route the work environment sucks but i bet the benefits are nice so fourth order routing you're probably never gonna do it's just complete overkill and that's where you would route an input into a mix and then a mix into the matrix and then you output out of a physical omni and then return onto a channel and then route that channel to your stereo bus so it's super super overkill now it has the potential of i think later in the video i said four but you have five insert points so you can have ten inserts put in there and that's uh you have two on the input on the channel you'll have two inserts on the mix you'll have two inserts on the matrix and then you return onto a channel where you get another two on the channel and then you write that to your stereo buss which has two so it's complete overkill i'm going to show you just to show you that you can do it but you're not you're never going to do it it's very very rare again traditionally inputs in the stereo bus like i showed you inputs into mixes like i showed you those mixes can be routed into a matrix if you need to group things and the matrix itself can also be used to simply take inputs and then itself just be another mix so hope that makes sense i'm going gonna show you fourth order now but again it's just complete overkill now if you really really wanted to we could route we could have a fourth order of routing where we would actually route the matrix into the stereo bus now you're thinking how you do that because there's no stereo bus selection here if i have the matrix selected well that's old school that is returning on a channel so i'm going to now go out of input one because i already have one and two output on the matrix so i'm going to keep that there and we're going to actually eat a couple out physical outputs so i'm going to take an xlr cable i'm going to go out of output one and i'm going to return on channel number eight seven and eight well we'll just do a mono for this so we're gonna return on channel eight and then i'm going to have the output of the stereo bus and it'll just be stereo left to output eight so if you wanted to do this in true stereo fashion you could eat up two buses to do this process to kind of get that once again if i select stereo i have two inserts there on the matrix two and two inserts there on the mix two and two two inserts there and on the input two so you could have up to fourth order routing which is two inserts on input one two inserts on mix number two two inserts on the matrix which would be number three and then the end of your chain would be your stereo bus which you would have another two inserts there so let's just do that real quick let's try it out i have input one and two i'm getting single from there i have i have inputs one and two i'm getting signal those are routed to mixes one and two mixes one and two is set as a stereo pair as a stereo group now i select matrix and i am getting matrix 1 and 2 is set as a stereo group i am getting mix 1 and 2 into the matrix that is being outputted from number eight so you guys could see i have signal on number eight i need to bring that up and now if you look at my stereo bus when i bring up number eight it's going to go right there on number 8 i have stereo selected now the last thing i need to do is patch the stereo to the correct thing we are going to patch this to output number eight and there you go [Music] and that way you have fourth order routing again the source that we're getting this is coming in on inputs one and two i can add two inserts there if i want inputs one and two are routed to mix there we go okay and just again to recap channels one and two which are patched to input one and two is routed to mix one and two which is a stereo group if i go to matrix one and two i am now taking mix one and two routed into matrix one and two which if i select is also a stereo group mix one and two is going out of omni two and returning on channel number eight as you can see the signal there channel number eight is sent to the stereo bus so that is four orders of routing and the input level mix level matrix level ending at your stereo bus so that gives you the potential of up to four insert points all the way next i'm going to show you guys how to route into dca groups no going back now okay so wolves pretend that inputs 1 through 8 is maybe a drum kit now during a show we've got our drum kind of locked in kick snare everything we like is you know mixed in the way we we really like and i still got that music going take those out so say this is uh this is my kick drum this is my entire drum set i really like the mix of the drums itself but in the middle of a show i don't want to have to move all of these faders down to just simply lower the drum as itself in the mix so for that i'm going to put inputs one through eight into a dca group and for the purposes of this demonstration input one which would normally be a kick drum for me is going to be just a little low-level music so you guys can actually hear this working i'm going to choose and right and for the purposes of routing all of these are being sent to the stereo bus the stereo bus is what's feeding this speaker you're hearing right now if i push it you'll see it meter obviously my gain structure's off like i'm hitting really low i should turn it up but you need to hear my voice anyway this is my drum kit i'm gonna go channel job dca group dca number one and then i can select all eight another thing you can do with a selected input and the channel overview is you can go to straight to the dca group here so as i've highlighted for you here is the the 16 dca groups you have and with an input selected you can just choose what dca group you want it to go to you can of course also access your dca's anytime by hitting the third button there and there's dca number one so if i bring it up go right to pca number one really easy way to control dcas another way to access your dca handle is to put it on a custom fader bank now if i go setup and i go to user setup custom fader starting with b1 i can choose what i want here so one i'm gonna go there we're gonna go to d stereo dca and dca one the way you access your custom bank is if you hold the two end buttons together you go there and as you see it just jumped here's dca1 this is my drum kit i have a handle on it now if your gain structure is right you land at unity you should have plus 10 db up and of course all the way to infinity below if your gain structure is right having plus 10 db up should be more than enough groovy cool the next thing i want to show you is how to route the oscillator around so i'm going to go into my monitor section here's my oscillator the output turns the oscillator on and off if i go into my oscillator we can choose the type of oscillator and then an output we want to send it to so if we want to put it into a mix the matrix or even the stereo bus we can right now i have matrix 1 routed to the speaker if i select it and you can select multiple points too but if i'm tuning a room and i'm using pink noise and that's a part of my pa i can have the pink noise set to matrix 1 and then when i hit output you're gonna hear it now that's traditional but what you can also do which is pretty cool is you can route to a channel so now i'm gonna send my oscillator into channel two that's selected there take it out of that output so it's only sending to channel two and now we turn it on and if you look at channel two you should see it metering here we'll unlink these if i go into channel 2 you see the oscillator there and i can route this anywhere i want so i have channel 2 sent to matrix 1 so i could still now have a handle on that and if i go into my monitor and i want a sine wave like a 1k tone that's still the channel 2. gonna bring it up a little more so that about minus 30 here i could totally control that oscillator onto a channel and i could send it anywhere i want it to be even into uh into the dugan which i have a cool video on you can click that for a cool trick okay so i'm not going into effects routing or the talkback section because i believe those deserve their own videos and kind of get in depth i just wanted this to kind of be like basic routing you know where can you move inputs and mixes and stuff kind of around and let you know the basic workflow that way you can get creative and you can start moving things around in a way that you like that's what's so beautiful about the yamaha boards is they're not just a rigid linear system they're really designed for you to kind of route how you want so hopefully this video opened up your horizons a little bit and now you can jump in you can kind of well let me try this or i want to try that and come up with something pretty cool again thanks for watching and look out for more videos on the yamaha ql in cl line rock on [Music] remember to like and subscribe