Aux Fed Subs | Pros, Cons, & Finding Common Ground With Dave Rat

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Over a year ago I posted my first video addressing what I thought about aux fed subs and offered some alternative workflows. Little did I know that video would become one of my most popular and most polarizing videos.

Now that I’ve had some time to try out some other ideas, listen to others approaches and opinions I’ve decided to revisit the subject in a different way.

I want to go on the record here saying I don’t think it is wrong to have a certain workflow in live audio.

Today I’m not trying to convince you one way of driving your system over another, I simply want to start a conversation and assess the pros and cons of each. I will of course have my own preferences, but - spoiler alert - I have used aux fed subs on several shows this last year when it made sense.

I actually want to couch this approach in a larger framework - what we’re doing when mixing subs on an aux is pivoting from a LR driven mix approach to a stem mix approach. You’re fanning your mix out into discrete separate parts with different functions, and I do believe there’s merit to that approach when it makes sense.

My hope for today is for you to have another tool in your toolbox when choosing how to design, drive, and mix on a system for your given application.

We’ll learn:

- My favorite application for aux fed subs
- A critical mixing misapplication of aux fed subs on larger systems
- Is the “it will change your crossover” argument valid?

⏱ Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:35 - Pros - Stem (Aux) Driven System
11:32 - Cons - Stem (Aux) Driven System
17:30 - Pros - LR Driven System
21:56 - Cons - LR Driven System
23:28 - Conclusion

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