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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Barracato" data-source="post: 97281" data-attributes="member: 24">Re: Death to... test what you think you know[ATTACH]152539[/ATTACH][ATTACH]152540[/ATTACH]One such system I encountered. The top photo shows 15 band Geqs in series with compressors inserted on channels. The second photo shows the house Geq on top and monitors on the bottom. Rather than being zeroed, there were similar cuts on the board for all the channels as well.This is reality. You have 1 hour to get everything out of the van, set up on stage, and checked before the show starts. All the channels are preset, and apparently from the grunge around the knobs never change, for a 5 piece rock band. You are being helped by the third string house engineer, because the head guy didn&#039;t think it was important to be there when the band was bringing their own tech. The third string house tech doesn&#039;t seem to know anything about how the system is configured except what mics plug into the snake where. He is also not sure you should change anything because the head tech really likes how the channel is set for a strat through a twin and shouldn&#039;t that be ok for your mandolin through a LDC.So where do you start?(This is an extreme case, but this is a fairly well known room on the east coast circuit in the under 300 capacity that books original music nightly.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jay Barracato, post: 97281, member: 24"] Re: Death to... test what you think you know [ATTACH=CONFIG]152539.vB5-legacyid=7426[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]152540.vB5-legacyid=7427[/ATTACH] One such system I encountered. The top photo shows 15 band Geqs in series with compressors inserted on channels. The second photo shows the house Geq on top and monitors on the bottom. Rather than being zeroed, there were similar cuts on the board for all the channels as well. This is reality. You have 1 hour to get everything out of the van, set up on stage, and checked before the show starts. All the channels are preset, and apparently from the grunge around the knobs never change, for a 5 piece rock band. You are being helped by the third string house engineer, because the head guy didn't think it was important to be there when the band was bringing their own tech. The third string house tech doesn't seem to know anything about how the system is configured except what mics plug into the snake where. He is also not sure you should change anything because the head tech really likes how the channel is set for a strat through a twin and shouldn't that be ok for your mandolin through a LDC. So where do you start? (This is an extreme case, but this is a fairly well known room on the east coast circuit in the under 300 capacity that books original music nightly.) [/QUOTE]

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