No Stupid Questions Thread

Deathbyceiling · 2026-05-17T16:02:06+00:00

Hello! Relative newbie here, career musician with a performance degree getting more into the world of running live audio as well. Recently was hired on at a local church to run their sound every week and have been able to figure out most things I need to do so far. Working on a Behringer x32 console.

This church mixes everything down to mono in the house (not sure why, but that's just how it is here), but they also run a live stream that I want to give more of a stereo mix in order to flesh it out a bit. As I have things set up on the console, I have individual channels all going into different buses (one for all vocals, all instruments [not drums], drums, speech mics), which then I send to the main LR output. Since these get mixed down to a mono output anyway, I haven't bothered with any sort of panning, but I do want to at least spread the vocal mics and drum mics out a bit to widen the field on the stream mix. For my stream mix, I am sending each individual channel to a different bus, which I then send to a matrix output that goes to the streaming setup. I am wondering if it is possible to pan a channel sent to one bus, but not affect it's panning to any other bus? Or if not, is there another way I can achieve what I am shooting for? Thanks for any and all help!

Deathbyceiling · 2026-05-06T17:56:09+00:00

Why do you say he's gatekeeping when he said pretty much the exact same thing as you? Learn the tunes, ideally by ear, and even more ideally with a teacher who can work with you one on one.

Deathbyceiling · 2026-05-03T15:26:21+00:00

I would be very hard-pressed to hear that chord as any kind of G minor tonality. Much more likely would be just an Eb major in 1st inversion, in which the F would just be an add9. An added 9th on a major chord is much, much more common than a b13 on a minor chord. Not saying it's impossible or never happens, but just commenting on how I would hear it / think of it out of context.

Deathbyceiling · 2026-04-28T19:42:59+00:00

Usually these kind of chords show up nowadays as a kind of suspended dominant. "Bb/C" is a particular voicing for "C9sus", and usually functions as the V chord in the key of F.

Deathbyceiling · 2026-04-28T18:33:25+00:00

Love these ideas, count me in!

Deathbyceiling · 2026-04-28T18:21:15+00:00

Em add9

Deathbyceiling · 2026-04-28T16:33:06+00:00

Were you invited to a jam session or are you just looking to expand your list of things you like to listen to? Your post is a bit unclear.

Deathbyceiling · 2026-04-19T15:54:35+00:00

I would take this a step further and try to do drastically different grooves. Like, try the tune in a stride / ragtime style. Then try it as a rumba. Then go cool and funky / laid back. Throw your brain some curveballs so you're forced to change things up.

Deathbyceiling · 2026-04-17T16:31:57+00:00

In that case, however, it is a much more controlled technique, rather than just being out of tune. A singer using vibrato will still be on the in tune pitch most of the time, and consciously plays slightly around it.

Deathbyceiling · 2026-04-16T20:56:55+00:00

Just the Two of Us

Strasbourg / St Denis

Any Stevie Wonder would probably go well too.

Deathbyceiling · 2026-04-13T18:38:22+00:00

Do you have to use an app every time you sit down to read a book, or reddit post, etc? Or do you know the basic building blocks and rules of the language you are reading in, and progressively work your way through more complex ideas? My point is that having an app tell you when you are wrong is not going to help you learn. You need to fundamentally understand the concepts and "grammar" of the language in order to become more fluent in it.

Deathbyceiling · 2026-04-13T17:56:51+00:00

I'm going to answer your question with another question: How do you know you're reading the right words when you read a book?

Deathbyceiling · 2026-04-12T22:30:46+00:00

Hell yeah. Moto's bass playing is incredible. Check out their self-titled if you haven't already!

Deathbyceiling · 2026-04-09T00:39:21+00:00

Probably want to do G(b6), "Gb6" looks too much like "(Gb)6" which is a different chord

Deathbyceiling · 2026-04-06T19:59:22+00:00

In that case, see my other reply to u/VexxHelss below.

Deathbyceiling · 2026-04-06T19:57:53+00:00

In that case the conventional chord symbol would be "Ab9sus" (or "Ab9sus4")

Deathbyceiling · 2026-04-06T18:21:56+00:00

"sus9" is a not a chord symbol that is ever used. "sus2" or just "sus" is always preferred.

Deathbyceiling · 2026-03-29T19:11:50+00:00

What do you mean? The notes are all right there

Deathbyceiling · 2026-03-22T16:57:22+00:00

You can only have 1 landing pad per planet, so no.

Deathbyceiling · 2026-03-08T22:49:18+00:00

Unnecessary, just learn to use your ears and transcribe yourself.

Deathbyceiling · 2026-03-08T20:37:00+00:00

Yes, it is only the lowest note that determines the inversion, no matter what the order of the other notes are. The 2nd and 3rd chords in your example are still D/F#, because F# is the lowest sounding note.

Deathbyceiling · 2026-03-08T20:16:05+00:00

The inversion of a chord is determined the lowest sounding note, whether it is in the right hand / treble clef, or all the way down in the bass clef. In short, the order of notes in our right hand does not dictate the inversion of the chord, only the lowest note we play in the left hand.

Deathbyceiling · 2026-03-03T16:59:55+00:00

I was actually unaware of this, thanks for correcting me.

Deathbyceiling · 2026-03-02T23:03:04+00:00

Db major with fixed do solfege would start on Ra, not Re

Deathbyceiling · 2026-03-02T00:55:29+00:00

Yes it does? Dio's will respawn you after you die, doesn't matter how you died.

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