Did 3 sets in a casino club with a 4 piece rock band Sat. night.
Impressions:
FOH position was really weird with 2 brick pillars exactly blocking the 2 VRX flown tops.
Board worked well, sounded good, monitor and FX sends were on faders which was easy but I needed to switch out of ch fader layer to adjust..but tapping the monitor send button got me right back...pretty quick.
EQ seemed a little 'jumpy' as in it seemed to jump in steps when adjusting. Screen readout for EQ was too small and crude and inaccurate.
FX adjustments acted the same...onetime I could not scroll between reverb settings. Tap delay control kind of freaked out and acted weird..probably my fault.
Ch read outs were easy to read but not color coded so I never got comfy reaching for a guitar or keys routed next to each other.
Ch meters were not good...signal, -24, -12, clip. Pretty useless.
All the knobs for controlling filters, EQ, comps, gates, hi pass...were layed out so that the "0" settings on all the gain knobs, or whatever setting left the 12 o'clock LED indicator lit...ended up blocking this top LED and the surrounding ones as well. This messed me up and the console was at a good height and angle. One thing I despise from the "old" days was trying to mix on a Heritage or PM analog console and having to stand on something to get an angle from where I could actually see the EQ silkscreens on the board.
One thing that messed me up. The large blank area above the faders had the magnetic dry erase board, and this area obviously collected anything I had with me, phone, pen, set list..etc. Above the ch faders are rotary controls that can be gain, high pass, pan, etc. problems arose when I left these on input gain function, things...including my fingers while reaching for a pen or whatever, hit these knobs and basically wreaked havoc with ch gains and then, monitor levels. Took me a while to figure out what was happening.
More later if I think of it.
Impressions:
FOH position was really weird with 2 brick pillars exactly blocking the 2 VRX flown tops.
Board worked well, sounded good, monitor and FX sends were on faders which was easy but I needed to switch out of ch fader layer to adjust..but tapping the monitor send button got me right back...pretty quick.
EQ seemed a little 'jumpy' as in it seemed to jump in steps when adjusting. Screen readout for EQ was too small and crude and inaccurate.
FX adjustments acted the same...onetime I could not scroll between reverb settings. Tap delay control kind of freaked out and acted weird..probably my fault.
Ch read outs were easy to read but not color coded so I never got comfy reaching for a guitar or keys routed next to each other.
Ch meters were not good...signal, -24, -12, clip. Pretty useless.
All the knobs for controlling filters, EQ, comps, gates, hi pass...were layed out so that the "0" settings on all the gain knobs, or whatever setting left the 12 o'clock LED indicator lit...ended up blocking this top LED and the surrounding ones as well. This messed me up and the console was at a good height and angle. One thing I despise from the "old" days was trying to mix on a Heritage or PM analog console and having to stand on something to get an angle from where I could actually see the EQ silkscreens on the board.
One thing that messed me up. The large blank area above the faders had the magnetic dry erase board, and this area obviously collected anything I had with me, phone, pen, set list..etc. Above the ch faders are rotary controls that can be gain, high pass, pan, etc. problems arose when I left these on input gain function, things...including my fingers while reaching for a pen or whatever, hit these knobs and basically wreaked havoc with ch gains and then, monitor levels. Took me a while to figure out what was happening.
More later if I think of it.