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Be Your Own Sound Guy: Automating Reverb and Delay Changes

· One min read
Musician @ Bandfix

You're a solo acoustic act. You want a dry, intimate vocal sound for your folk songs, but a massive, washed-out reverb for your cover of "Wicked Game." You don't have a sound guy. You're stuck with one static vocal sound for the whole night.

The Old Way: Reaching over to your mixer between songs to twist knobs, hoping you don't accidentally cause feedback.

The Bandfix Way: Song MIDI Settings.

  1. Connect Bandfix to your digital mixer (like an XR18 or X32).
  2. Set up a MIDI command to increase the Reverb Send level for specific songs.
  3. Set another command to bring it back down for the next track.

Pro Tip: You can also automate your Monitor Mix volume if you need to hear yourself louder on quiet songs.

Sound like a pro production, even when you're alone on stage. Download Bandfix

The Backing Track Fumble: Triggering Audio and Lyrics with One Tap

· One min read
Musician @ Bandfix

You're a solo artist. You finish a song. You have to stop playing guitar, reach over to your iPod to select the next backing track, then reach over to your iPad to swipe to the next set of lyrics. It takes 10 seconds. The audience is staring at you fumbling with cables. It kills the momentum.

The Old Way: Two devices. Two hands. Zero flow. You're more of a DJ than a musician.

The Bandfix Way: Integrated Audio Tracks.

  1. Link your backing track (MP3/WAV) directly to the song in Bandfix.
  2. When you open the song in Live Mode, the audio player is right there at the bottom.
  3. One tap (or foot pedal press) starts the track and scrolls your lyrics.

Pro Tip: Enable "Autoplay Audio" in settings if you want the track to start immediately when you switch to the song.

Stop the fumble and start the show. Download Bandfix