Re: Analog FOH, Outboard opinions/preferences
The last club I was a staff engineer at had a 40 channel Soundcraft GB8 in my favorite of the three rooms. This is the set up we used and left patched in: Gates channels 1-7 except chan 3, 2 extra with patch cords, Compressors channels 10 and 11, Compressors channels 17-20, two extra with patch cords. Four effects units returned on the four stereo channels to the right of channel 24.
This set up gave us gates on all the drums except the hat and two roaming. Kik, snare, hat, tom1, tom2, tom3, tom4, or sometimes kik1, kik2, hat, snare, etc. Compression on bass and accoustic, compression on vox1, vox2, vox3, vox4, two roaming. The 16 channels (25-40) to the right of the master were used if we soundchecked the headliner and did not share channels.
This set up worked really well and was a luxury if we were festival style and sharing all channels. I usually had at least 5 acts per night with no more than a 15 minute changeover between acts, usually we did it in 10 minutes.
The last club I was a staff engineer at had a 40 channel Soundcraft GB8 in my favorite of the three rooms. This is the set up we used and left patched in: Gates channels 1-7 except chan 3, 2 extra with patch cords, Compressors channels 10 and 11, Compressors channels 17-20, two extra with patch cords. Four effects units returned on the four stereo channels to the right of channel 24.
This set up gave us gates on all the drums except the hat and two roaming. Kik, snare, hat, tom1, tom2, tom3, tom4, or sometimes kik1, kik2, hat, snare, etc. Compression on bass and accoustic, compression on vox1, vox2, vox3, vox4, two roaming. The 16 channels (25-40) to the right of the master were used if we soundchecked the headliner and did not share channels.
This set up worked really well and was a luxury if we were festival style and sharing all channels. I usually had at least 5 acts per night with no more than a 15 minute changeover between acts, usually we did it in 10 minutes.
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sounds like it will be rider friendly as well if anyone still accepts analog.
those shows nearly always sounded like ass. They also have the convenience of knowing its going to work, How many venues have a setup where you walk it and its a nice rig, but oh this and his doesn't work or it just plain and simple hasnt been maintained. The number 2. thing digital has its its size and weight. Its a powerful tool and a quality digital can probably sound better just as good for 1/4 or less of the weight of an analog FOH. I actually really enjoy mixing on Digital but not as much as a proper analog setup, which is why I am building this. 