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<blockquote data-quote="Eric Cagle" data-source="post: 90237" data-attributes="member: 277">Re: Analog FOH, Outboard opinions/preferencesThe 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,&nbsp; 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.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eric Cagle, post: 90237, member: 277"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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