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I’m wondering what’s emerging as the industry standard for this? I work at a place with a few different techs and the same roster of bands coming through every month or so. On any given show night it’s a roll of the roster die what tech gets matched up with what band, the skill level of the...

Hello, I’ve been working with a Sufi band and the tabla are a constant vexation. Does anyone have any tips or tricks for getting them over the rock band volume of the rest of the stage? Last show I used beta 57as on an almost horizontal angle (trying to reject the foldback). It was stable ish...

Before I go back to the boss and tell him he’s dreaming I want to double check here, the maximum outputs that an M32 can support is 16 isn’t it? Whether you have one DL attached or two, you can’t expand it out to 32 outputs because the software doesn’t support it.

What amps would you use to drive 4 of these? I feel like I must be reading the specs wrong because it looks like their peak is 6000, which means maybe, 1200w min amp to drive just one? But that would be a fortune in amplifiers, so maybe the question is actually what’s the bare minimum you’d...

Has anyone encountered this? How did you fix it? Screeching sound intensifies when the musicians are directly in front of the screen and diminishes as they move away. They always set up directly in front.

I have two questions really. Question one, when you're preparing for a touring band to come in and sound check what are the things you do to prep the space before they arrive as a matter of course? Bonus second part for this, what do you do to prepare for in ear mixes? Question two, how do...

I’m itching to do a working holiday where the work is production related (I want to see how you all do it in other parts of the world, especially music festivals!!!) Now that we’re starting to inch out of covid (and I have 15 years of experience under my belt instead of being green) I think it...

I’ve never lost a mic at a gig before but it happened today. Two techs sharing sound duties, 4 handheld wireless mics became 3 over the course of the first half of the day. Asking around and searching all the likely places hasn’t yielded it and I’m tentatively going to say Long Fingers took it...

In brief, I got an aspiring young tech an internship at a place I work and now she’s my manager. Even in ranking to the original manager more or less (they are meant to be interchangeable) and she’s been given the rostering to do. There used to be 3 techs and the hours were shared evenly. This...

Has anyone successfully done this? I tried yesterday running the main outs backwards through a stereo DI that could give me RCA out (the Insta requires a tiny jack for its input). It got signal but it was very distorted, I pulled the master down halfway, no change. I got flustered and...

How in the ever loving hell do you adjust the aux master volumes? On the "prefs" setting I can see an overview of the outputs for foh and the USB out and the auxes. And the centre knob is offering me reset which puts everything to minus infinity. FOH master is clearly the knob bottom right but...

I worked on an x32 the other week where the geq on faders was as good as unusable, both because the fader was fighting the speed with which wanted to pull it back down and because the internal processing doesn’t seem to be keeping up with the fast reduction in volume either (judging by the...

I’ve tended to gravitate towards the zed range for niceness but I notice they wear out fast when they spend a lot of time out. What would people recommend for a console that’s going to stationary and always be on? The last zed that tried to do this job randomly started maxing out the volume a...

Desk is less than two years old Had previously presented with a fault where it would disconnect and when it reconnected it would reset all of the settings on all of the channels. Updating the ipad seemed to fix this It has also previously presented this fault where it loses connectivity and...

Hellooo, I have a crackling multicore problem. Channels 2/3 and 6/7 appear to be fine but when there is phantom power running through them and an XLR plugged in, bumping the XLR causes them to crackle like a faulty cable would. My first port of call was to have a look inside the multicore box...

Well, very likely over-excursed (I haven't had a chance to inspect them yet but they make sounds no longer and the same speaker cable run drives the one survivor fine so the sub is the break in the signal chain). The set up is two in series running off of a single channel of a Crown Macrotech...

Last year I was involved in a production involving a mix of orchestra, big band ensembles, dance groups and choirs. I ended up having about 10 or so condensor mics 'spotting' the various sections and it sounded great but added a lot to the changeover times as every mic stand had to be struck...

RCF 1018 subs paired with a Yamaha P7000S amplifier. Speaker RMS is 600w, peak is 6000w. There's two subs so 4 ohms, aiming for more than 1200, less than 12000? The yamaha in bridge mode can put out 3200w. (so, 1600 per sub). The questions are, is that a happy match? Could/should I potentially...

Apparently we have some wild weather around these parts. State wide blackout yesterday (in my suburb from about 4PM till 2AM). Transmission lines knocked flat by the wind, literally tripped the circuit breaker. Actually kinda cool finding out how the system works (hence the posting)...

Wondering if there are any standard courtesies people practice when their hire clients have stopped paying and it comes to crunch time? At present I have sent the polite email inquiring as to what is happening with getting invoices paid. This was met with a complete derail. I've responded with...