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<blockquote data-quote="Silas Pradetto" data-source="post: 33995" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>Re: DDX3216 or StudioLive 24.4.2</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Mike, I admire your desire to do sound for your school. Unfortunately, it's not your job to provide all that gear for free; it's your job to charge the market rate for the service, or you are doing the entire industry a disservice. If you do it for free and fail, and they come to me asking for the same service, they're going to expect it to be very cheap or free as well. They will be surprised to know that the service you were providing is worth much more.</p><p></p><p>Also, as others have pointed out, you are overestimating the amount of equipment required to do the event you describe. Press feeds are almost always mono and it's the same feed for everyone. Just because there are a ton of monitors doesn't mean each is it's own mix. We're talking about a battle of the bands here, with musicians that have played in front of an audience minimally or not at all: they're not professionals. One monitor mix per band, with just vocals in it, will be fine. You are going to have far more trouble getting Mr. Guitarist to turn his half-stack down to a reasonable level than getting the monitors right...</p><p></p><p>Since you're only 14 and are just getting into this, you should start running your business as a business right away. Look at the ROI of your gear. The DDX will do everything you need for the shows you describe; there is no reason to go dump a ton of money into a console that does almost nothing more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silas Pradetto, post: 33995, member: 34"] Re: DDX3216 or StudioLive 24.4.2 Mike, I admire your desire to do sound for your school. Unfortunately, it's not your job to provide all that gear for free; it's your job to charge the market rate for the service, or you are doing the entire industry a disservice. If you do it for free and fail, and they come to me asking for the same service, they're going to expect it to be very cheap or free as well. They will be surprised to know that the service you were providing is worth much more. Also, as others have pointed out, you are overestimating the amount of equipment required to do the event you describe. Press feeds are almost always mono and it's the same feed for everyone. Just because there are a ton of monitors doesn't mean each is it's own mix. We're talking about a battle of the bands here, with musicians that have played in front of an audience minimally or not at all: they're not professionals. One monitor mix per band, with just vocals in it, will be fine. You are going to have far more trouble getting Mr. Guitarist to turn his half-stack down to a reasonable level than getting the monitors right... Since you're only 14 and are just getting into this, you should start running your business as a business right away. Look at the ROI of your gear. The DDX will do everything you need for the shows you describe; there is no reason to go dump a ton of money into a console that does almost nothing more. [/QUOTE]
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