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A&H GLD as a monitor board - a gig review
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<blockquote data-quote="RYAN LOUDMUSIC JENKINS" data-source="post: 58663" data-attributes="member: 70"><p>Re: A&H GLD as a monitor board - a gig review</p><p></p><p>I am going to follow up with a little about the GLD on monitors also. I have used mine on a host of events from musical theatre to rock shows and everything in between.</p><p></p><p>Last week I was mixing monitors on it for an all day long festival with national and international performers that played mostly "Pacific Islands" influenced music with some raggae mixed in too. Some were hip hop based while others were more traditional with acoustic guitars and ukes.</p><p></p><p>I had 10 wedge mixes, two side fills two sidefill sub mixes plus a drummers sub and four ear mixes. I have had my GLD for a couple months now and I have several gigs under my belt on it so I have shows built the way I am used to working. I have no need for an external keyboard as I am used to it and I have a few preset names available in the slate to use....You did know that there was a name slate to draw from didn't you? A handy little feature to save some time.</p><p></p><p>Once we rang out the monitors were were go to go. One thing that I have noticed and was notices by another engineer on the show was that the graphic EQ will fool you with the way it sounds. You really don't notice it hacking up the sound as you make adustments. It is working but you don't hear the typical artifacts that you expect from a graphic EQ. I haven't done any measurements but it makes me wonder if the algorithms are similar to the very smooth graphic eq algorithm in the old Behringer 8024EQ????</p><p></p><p>As far as work flow....As soon as you figure out where you want you inputs and outputs it is a very fast monitor console. You can press the mix button of any of the mixes and use the input faders to build your mix or an even faster way in run and gun is to press the mix button for an input and use the output faders to add that input to all of the mixes that you want really fast.</p><p></p><p>I had aboslutely no issues using the GLD for monitors and I look forward to getting my second one soon so I will have one at both sides of the snake.</p><p></p><p>As far as sound quality. I think with most newer digital consoles there aren't any that are unusable. Some have EQ sections that may sound better than others or dynamics that don't suck the life out of the signal too much etc. All I can say is that with the GLD you can hear every nuance from your input source. It sounds great and all the processing seems to work and sound great without leaving you desiring something different. There was some talk about the lack of a De-esser before it came out. I can tell you from having it out on a couple dozen shows that I have had absolutely no need for a de-esser on the GLD. Using the "Opto-Slow" compressor for vocals give me what I typically want without the extra sybilance that I don't want.</p><p></p><p>One of the cool things is the abilitly to put a wedge and ears fader on all the layers so you always have you cue available. Plus putting the ears into the headphone outs is nice nice little feature too since it has an 1/8" jack for your buds.</p><p></p><p>The GLD is not perfect yet. It's going to take a few more firmware updates to get all of the little features worked out but it is a real winner and I love it in monitor world.</p><p></p><p>I think as soon as people get some time on the GLDs that it is going to be THE console to use in the under $20k range. There just doesn't seem to be any other console that is equivelant in this price range.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RYAN LOUDMUSIC JENKINS, post: 58663, member: 70"] Re: A&H GLD as a monitor board - a gig review I am going to follow up with a little about the GLD on monitors also. I have used mine on a host of events from musical theatre to rock shows and everything in between. Last week I was mixing monitors on it for an all day long festival with national and international performers that played mostly "Pacific Islands" influenced music with some raggae mixed in too. Some were hip hop based while others were more traditional with acoustic guitars and ukes. I had 10 wedge mixes, two side fills two sidefill sub mixes plus a drummers sub and four ear mixes. I have had my GLD for a couple months now and I have several gigs under my belt on it so I have shows built the way I am used to working. I have no need for an external keyboard as I am used to it and I have a few preset names available in the slate to use....You did know that there was a name slate to draw from didn't you? A handy little feature to save some time. Once we rang out the monitors were were go to go. One thing that I have noticed and was notices by another engineer on the show was that the graphic EQ will fool you with the way it sounds. You really don't notice it hacking up the sound as you make adustments. It is working but you don't hear the typical artifacts that you expect from a graphic EQ. I haven't done any measurements but it makes me wonder if the algorithms are similar to the very smooth graphic eq algorithm in the old Behringer 8024EQ???? As far as work flow....As soon as you figure out where you want you inputs and outputs it is a very fast monitor console. You can press the mix button of any of the mixes and use the input faders to build your mix or an even faster way in run and gun is to press the mix button for an input and use the output faders to add that input to all of the mixes that you want really fast. I had aboslutely no issues using the GLD for monitors and I look forward to getting my second one soon so I will have one at both sides of the snake. As far as sound quality. I think with most newer digital consoles there aren't any that are unusable. Some have EQ sections that may sound better than others or dynamics that don't suck the life out of the signal too much etc. All I can say is that with the GLD you can hear every nuance from your input source. It sounds great and all the processing seems to work and sound great without leaving you desiring something different. There was some talk about the lack of a De-esser before it came out. I can tell you from having it out on a couple dozen shows that I have had absolutely no need for a de-esser on the GLD. Using the "Opto-Slow" compressor for vocals give me what I typically want without the extra sybilance that I don't want. One of the cool things is the abilitly to put a wedge and ears fader on all the layers so you always have you cue available. Plus putting the ears into the headphone outs is nice nice little feature too since it has an 1/8" jack for your buds. The GLD is not perfect yet. It's going to take a few more firmware updates to get all of the little features worked out but it is a real winner and I love it in monitor world. I think as soon as people get some time on the GLDs that it is going to be THE console to use in the under $20k range. There just doesn't seem to be any other console that is equivelant in this price range. [/QUOTE]
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