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<blockquote data-quote="Mick Berg" data-source="post: 116887" data-attributes="member: 2512">Re: Using Waves Dugan with X-32I &quot;kind of&quot; used the Waves Dugan plug-in last night (in demo mode) on a musical with sixteen lavaliere mics. It worked very well, although it had my laptop working very hard. I say &quot;kind of&quot;, because I didn&#039;t actually use the Dugan&#039;s output for the show, I was just monitoring how it was dealing with the mics. The reason for this is that there is a current limitation with the X32 firmware, and the insert points cannot be made post-fader. This means that any unused mics in a scene must be bypassed at the Dugan, or they will influence the Dugan algorithm. So if an actor was off-stage and coughed loudly his mic would duck out the active mics!The Dugan is not suitable for music as its whole purpose is to give preference to one mic. So if a musician in a jazz band was playing a loud solo, his mic would push all the other mics down. Not good. When you think that the Waves Dugan plug-in can provide up to sixty-four channels, I think $500 is very reasonable. It would cost me $240 per day to rent two Dugan E1&#039;s to get sixteen channels ($500 for two D2&#039;s, there&#039;s your plug-in paid for!), and analog patching them into the X32 in its current state would be a pain, or even impossible, as it would take up a bunch of ins and outs.My only complaint&nbsp; is that Waves charge $500 for the Multirack which you need to use any plug-ins. I think this is way too much. Attempts to use Live Professor ($60) as the host have so far not been successful. I hope this info is useful to you.Mick Berg.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mick Berg, post: 116887, member: 2512"] Re: Using Waves Dugan with X-32 I "kind of" used the Waves Dugan plug-in last night (in demo mode) on a musical with sixteen lavaliere mics. It worked very well, although it had my laptop working very hard. I say "kind of", because I didn't actually use the Dugan's output for the show, I was just monitoring how it was dealing with the mics. The reason for this is that there is a current limitation with the X32 firmware, and the insert points cannot be made post-fader. This means that any unused mics in a scene must be bypassed at the Dugan, or they will influence the Dugan algorithm. So if an actor was off-stage and coughed loudly his mic would duck out the active mics! The Dugan is not suitable for music as its whole purpose is to give preference to one mic. So if a musician in a jazz band was playing a loud solo, his mic would push all the other mics down. Not good. When you think that the Waves Dugan plug-in can provide up to sixty-four channels, I think $500 is very reasonable. It would cost me $240 per day to rent two Dugan E1's to get sixteen channels ($500 for two D2's, there's your plug-in paid for!), and analog patching them into the X32 in its current state would be a pain, or even impossible, as it would take up a bunch of ins and outs. My only complaint is that Waves charge $500 for the Multirack which you need to use any plug-ins. I think this is way too much. Attempts to use Live Professor ($60) as the host have so far not been successful. I hope this info is useful to you. Mick Berg. [/QUOTE]

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