I’m a little confused about this question. The “master” is an output not an input. Anything being plugged in to the mixer will need to be routed to a particular input channel.
With regards to the modular synth. I wanted to know if I should plug it into the send/return or elsewhere. Since I don’t want to plug it into one of the 4 channels.
I don’t really have a lot of knowledge on the modular synth. If it is going to play sounds than you need to go to a channel, if it is going to manipulate sounds from your mixer, than send/return option.
With respect to the pedals, I have a link posted for you awaiting approval by the forum; it’s from the “DJ Tech Tools” site and they cover what you are trying to achieve with your pedal and a DJ mixer.
You can go from Stereo TS to Mono TS via cable, however you are going to experience phase cancellation in your signal chain. You will need to use a passive adapter such as the switchcraft 600 to avoid audio loss.
At that cost, though, you might as well just invest on stereo pedals. As a hardware user myself, I stopped purchasing mono pedals a few years ago, but I’m also a nerd.
No you shouldn’t.
You can pickup a converter to convert your Phono inputs to line inputs but obviously for the channels you use that with, you’d have to choose between each input, in other words if your deck A is on CH1line and your synth is on the Phono of the same channel (with a converter), you wouldn’t hear both at the same time so this method will give you more line inputs but not more channels if you follow what I’m saying.
Google Phono to line level converter and you will see a range of them varying in price. Hope this helps.
Thank you. I think I’m just going to “daisy chain” it with the Akai Force which I’m using in one of my channels or with the audio interface from that I’m sending to another channel.
I also have a spare non dj mixer that I could route everything to.
Theoretically, an FX return can be used to insert something into the master bus, just hook up the correct cables to whatever you want to hook up and to the returns.
Depending on the internal workings, this may or may not work. Some trial error is needed here. I don’t have an X1800 here to check that out.