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<blockquote data-quote="Jeff Carter" data-source="post: 133233" data-attributes="member: 3713">Re: GLD 80 Question regarding DCA or GroupThe Editor software is a great way to get your head around the console UI since it&#039;s very similar. My church has had a GLD-80 since September 2012 and we&#039;re quite happy with it--though if you&#039;re close to maxing out the input and bus counts of the desk I&#039;d have to recommend that you go with a GLD-112 for the extra fader bank.To replicate that exact behaviour on a GLD you&#039;d have to use groups. Muting a DCA definitely kills the assigned inputs everywhere (I unintentionally confirmed this by muting the drum DCA in a rehearsal, causing frantic waving in my direction from the drummer, who was using in-ears fed from a pre-fade aux).That said... 99% of the time, when I mute a channel (with the channel mute or via DCA) I want it muted everywhere (FOH and foldback)--what&#039;s the situation where you need to have inputs in foldback but not FOH?To be clear--if you&#039;re talking about summing a bunch of inputs together into one mix, that&#039;s not a DCA--it&#039;s an aux, group, matrix, or main. DCA is only a way to control post-fade levels or mutes of a bunch of channels simultaneously.Could you give a little more detail about your recording process? As I understand it, you&#039;re currently using the subgroups as stem mixes (vox, inst, drums, speech) which get mixed down to a final recording with the mini desk--is that correct? Any direct outs from the console? Is there a second operator for this submix? How many tracks get recorded?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeff Carter, post: 133233, member: 3713"] Re: GLD 80 Question regarding DCA or Group The Editor software is a great way to get your head around the console UI since it's very similar. My church has had a GLD-80 since September 2012 and we're quite happy with it--though if you're close to maxing out the input and bus counts of the desk I'd have to recommend that you go with a GLD-112 for the extra fader bank. To replicate that exact behaviour on a GLD you'd have to use groups. Muting a DCA definitely kills the assigned inputs everywhere (I unintentionally confirmed this by muting the drum DCA in a rehearsal, causing frantic waving in my direction from the drummer, who was using in-ears fed from a pre-fade aux). That said... 99% of the time, when I mute a channel (with the channel mute or via DCA) I want it muted everywhere (FOH and foldback)--what's the situation where you need to have inputs in foldback but not FOH? To be clear--if you're talking about summing a bunch of inputs together into one mix, that's not a DCA--it's an aux, group, matrix, or main. DCA is only a way to control post-fade levels or mutes of a bunch of channels simultaneously. Could you give a little more detail about your recording process? As I understand it, you're currently using the subgroups as stem mixes (vox, inst, drums, speech) which get mixed down to a final recording with the mini desk--is that correct? Any direct outs from the console? Is there a second operator for this submix? How many tracks get recorded? [/QUOTE]

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