Alesis studio24 User Manual

You may run into some situations where you need the opposite hookup from the
above, especially with acoustic jazz or folk recordings where a minimum of PA or
monitoring is needed, but the recording must be digitally pristine. For example,
suppose you’re recording in a very small club, and only the vocalist needs any sound
reinforcement because the instruments are loud enough acoustically or through their
own amplifiers.

Use MON 1/2 as the PA feed, with only 3 channels used (one for vocal, and two
effect returns).

Use Group 1 as a mono drum mix, Group 3 as a mono keyboard mix, the L/R
master as a stereo guitar mix (there were acoustic and electric guitars, both in
stereo). Patch these four outputs (Groups 1/2 and L/R) to the first four tracks of
the recorder.

Patch the vocal and bass from their respective TAPE OUTs without assigning
them to any of the main outputs:

Voila, an 6-track digital recording that is easy to manage, and a happy audience and
vocalist.

The point of all these techniques is: don’t limit yourself in how you use the different
sections of the Studio 24. What works in one situation will require a different
solution in another.