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<blockquote data-quote="Marsellus Fariss" data-source="post: 77031" data-attributes="member: 1107">Re: Help a club pick a console to replace an aging Crest VX.One of our problems with switching to the all &quot;digital console save and&nbsp; recall for each act&quot; working method in our room is that our stage gets&nbsp; so cluttered with backline when we have 3 or more acts we physically&nbsp; can&#039;t get to mics to move them from amp to amp, drum kit to drum kit&nbsp; etc... We often have to pin up an opening act entirely downstage because&nbsp; the stage looks like a pawnshop and we can&#039;t even get to our drum and&nbsp; cross sub snakes. Because of this we would either have to go with 48&nbsp; input digitals and continue to patch each act discreetly (which are not&nbsp; in the budget as 40+ digitals are still expensive) or after each&nbsp; soundcheck we would have to pull each bands entire patch at the snake&nbsp; head and patch it back for their set. Doing this for 3 acts a night&nbsp; means repatching 5 times a show and I&#039;m not cool with that. If there&#039;s a&nbsp; slicker working method please fill me in. If I could just by a pair of&nbsp; 32 input digitals and make it work I would love it. Short of adding an expensive&nbsp; snake system with mass connectors on all the sub snakes and an A/B patch I can&#039;t think of how to make 32 channels work. I&#039;ve never PM&#039;d in a venue with this arrangement though so perhaps I&#039;m&nbsp; missing something?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marsellus Fariss, post: 77031, member: 1107"] Re: Help a club pick a console to replace an aging Crest VX. One of our problems with switching to the all "digital console save and recall for each act" working method in our room is that our stage gets so cluttered with backline when we have 3 or more acts we physically can't get to mics to move them from amp to amp, drum kit to drum kit etc... We often have to pin up an opening act entirely downstage because the stage looks like a pawnshop and we can't even get to our drum and cross sub snakes. Because of this we would either have to go with 48 input digitals and continue to patch each act discreetly (which are not in the budget as 40+ digitals are still expensive) or after each soundcheck we would have to pull each bands entire patch at the snake head and patch it back for their set. Doing this for 3 acts a night means repatching 5 times a show and I'm not cool with that. If there's a slicker working method please fill me in. If I could just by a pair of 32 input digitals and make it work I would love it. Short of adding an expensive snake system with mass connectors on all the sub snakes and an A/B patch I can't think of how to make 32 channels work. I've never PM'd in a venue with this arrangement though so perhaps I'm missing something? [/QUOTE]

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