Can I connect aux sends back into the mixer inputs?
I am considering getting a mixer for band practice. The model I'm looking at (Zoom L-12) has 5 individual submixes meant to be used as headphone monitoring outputs.
What has struck me when I looked at it, was the possibility to reroute the submix back into the mixer again. An example connection could look like this:
The path could work like this:
Blue: dry guitar signal using High-Z input
Orange: dry guitar signal again, from the A submix to e.g. amp modeler
Green: wet guitar signal
Red: actual main mix
What this gives me is e.g. ability to mix dry/wet guitar signal in main mix, record the dry signal for reamping etc.
Is there anything that would prevent this from working? I know that master outputs can't be used that way because they could form an infinite loop that amplifies the signal, but in this case I could mix that so that the A submix doesn't receive the track 2 at all (to avoid the feedback loop specifically).
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This should be possible, but I see one potential problem:
The signal coming out of Phone 1 will not be high impedance (Hi-Z). So if you are sending it to a guitar effects unit or amp, you may not sound the same as plugging the guitar in directly.
A more traditional way to do this would be to utilize a DI box. In that case, you plug the guitar into the DI box, send the XLR-out on the DI box to channel 1 on the mixer, send the Thru-out on the DI box to your effects, and send the effected sound into channel 2 on your mixer. This way you can still mix the wet/dry levels while still matching impedances.
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