Okay, as I keep trying to learn audio routing etc, there is one thing I've never understood looking at a sound board.
When a channel says 5/6 or 7/8 on a board what does this really mean you can do (in layman's terms)? From the picture, If I have a musician that needs a vocal mic and needs to also plug in his guitar, am I able to plug his xlr mic cable into the xlr input at the top of channel 5 (for example) and then two inputs below that, plug his guitar into Line 6 (which looks like it's "R") and therefore use this same 5/6 channel for both vocal and guitar? Of course, if I can do this, it means I have no control over each of them separately, correct? Since there is only one gain for this channel. He would have to control the volume of his guitar from his own guitar. Am I remotely on the right track here?
When a channel says 5/6 or 7/8 on a board what does this really mean you can do (in layman's terms)? From the picture, If I have a musician that needs a vocal mic and needs to also plug in his guitar, am I able to plug his xlr mic cable into the xlr input at the top of channel 5 (for example) and then two inputs below that, plug his guitar into Line 6 (which looks like it's "R") and therefore use this same 5/6 channel for both vocal and guitar? Of course, if I can do this, it means I have no control over each of them separately, correct? Since there is only one gain for this channel. He would have to control the volume of his guitar from his own guitar. Am I remotely on the right track here?