Reverb to P16 - channel squeezing...
Hello
I work for a band with drms - bass - 4 gtr channels - 10 keyboard channels - sax - 4 vocals + sampler - 10 persons on stage.
I give them 6 floor wedges + two P16 for keyboard players + TC-Helicon Voice-solo-activespeakers for choir singers and keyboardplayers
Wedges go for - gtr-players - bassplayer - drummer - saxophonist - choir - lead singer
Then I make two stereo subgroups of keys - one of each player
P16 channels then will be as follows
bd - sn - sampler - sampler - bass - sax - gtr - gtr - 1st keysub L - 1st keysub R - 2nd keysub L - 2nd keysub R - voc - voc - voc - voc
I feed the keyboardsubgroups BEFORE channel fader and the output of groups goes only to P16 - the channels feed to LR and are DCA controlled, so they can be on page two along with most of drums also at their own DCA - this way I can stay most of the time @ page one plus use the DCA-faders for the rest and effect return control. So I hope to keep pagejumping minimal.
Now the keyboarplayer with 3 stereokeyboards hears himself in stereo, when he wishes to hear only himself - and he can set the balance between the three keyboards to his liking. For me at FOH - feeding him before channel faders - leaves still the option to affect the balance at house without affecting his monitors - of course most of the time his balance will be o.k. for me , too. Just control the overall balance against rest of the band with single DCA-fader.
Same thing for second keyboardplayer with two stereokeyboards.
You notice, that only two guitars out of four are in P16-system. The other two are used in only few songs, so I just feed them to wedge for guitarplayer, bass and drums.
All in all I find this all very flexible and very potential system.
To top all previously mentioned - I add a quadrofonic processor and second pa-rig behind audience - use of six AUX-jacks helps there and the user-definable controls are the cherry on the cream....
Nuuska
