re: X32 Discussion
I did a couple of gigs over the weekend just gone, with my X32. This is the first time I've had the X32 running with a PA system because the band are too darn lazy to get together and give me a proper rehearsal. I've done all my prep work on headphones.
I must say, my gain structure is all over the place with this new desk. I had input faders low, the master fader at less than half and I'm not entirely sure where to set my pre-amp gains on the meters. It seems to me that if they go into the yellow, by the time you add 20 odd more channels you end up clipping the power amps, which never used to happen on my analogue desk. This is my first foray into digital consoles so I guess I have a fair bit of learning to do.
Overall, the X32 performed brilliantly. As everyone else has done, I rate the internal FX as amazing for the price. The whole mix sounded much cleaner and the gates worked much better than my old rack of Behringer gates on drums. I easily separated out all the individual toms but this used to be a nightmare on the old gear.
The only issues I had really were with the little notebook computer I was using. My plan was to try out some multitrack recording. On the first night I recorded the whole first half of the gig and then when I stopped the recording, Reaper told me the drive was full. So I ditched that recording and moved the project directory to the second drive which was plenty big enough. I recorded some of the second half and then back at the hotel I tried to figure out how to get Reaper to play through my headphones on the laptop. I don't know Reaper so that's why I was struggling. I did get it working and found it to be a very clean recording.
On the second night, I had it all set up correctly but the laptop was running slow. I gave it a couple of reboots to fix that weird behaviour and then it lost the desk on the USB port. No matter how many times I rebooted, it never found the desk again. I'm fairly confident that a reboot of the desk would have brought it all to life again but we were going straight through (no interval). So I didn't attempt anymore.
All in all, great desk. I want some P16s! 
Kind regards, Andrew
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