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Mostly for Monty's benefit- Thursday of Bare mixer power supply fun!
Dunno if it's just the fuse, 'cause I came back from radio shack with the wrong size 6.3A, 250V slow blow fuse. We'll find that our very early tomorrow.
Tonight we ran with mics 1-4 on the Guild's Mackie 1202 VLZ (yay 4 mic preamps only!), 5,6, and 13 using spare channels on the Allen and Heath board (also mixing orchestra) and 7,8,9,10,12,and 14 on the Guild's Mackie something or other powered mixer, both Mackie's feeding channels on the MixWizard.
So instead of 16 faders for cast, and another 8 faders for orchestra (usually monitors mixed on the MixWizard, then fed direct to the Eurodesk), all with *extremely handy* LED meter bridge, I got 3 faders for cast, 6 faders for orchestra, and 10 damn little knobs for cast, with no metering beyond what I can PFL or Solo.
It was an adventure. I can not do 12 knobs with two hands at once, I can't even tell which guitarist turned their amp up too much (or released the -amilliondB disortion pedal) without pausing to PFL, and I'm still don't even know what the curve on the knobs is, say nothing of be able to mix as smoothly as with a nice 100mm fader with a logarithmic curve *that I've been used to for years*.
All in all, the result for the audience was fine. Missed a lot of the subtlety, there were some just blatant wrong bits, and the drummer got a lot of cast pre-fader in his monitor briefly in Act 2, but I've been to worse sounding Guild shows, much worse sounding other shows in local community theater, and much worse sounding (at least from our seats) real tours at real theatres.
Here's hoping the right fuse fixes everything tomorrow morning, and I don't have to run around trying to find a new power supply, whole new console of some sort, or doing this again tomorrow night.
Dunno if it's just the fuse, 'cause I came back from radio shack with the wrong size 6.3A, 250V slow blow fuse. We'll find that our very early tomorrow.
Tonight we ran with mics 1-4 on the Guild's Mackie 1202 VLZ (yay 4 mic preamps only!), 5,6, and 13 using spare channels on the Allen and Heath board (also mixing orchestra) and 7,8,9,10,12,and 14 on the Guild's Mackie something or other powered mixer, both Mackie's feeding channels on the MixWizard.
So instead of 16 faders for cast, and another 8 faders for orchestra (usually monitors mixed on the MixWizard, then fed direct to the Eurodesk), all with *extremely handy* LED meter bridge, I got 3 faders for cast, 6 faders for orchestra, and 10 damn little knobs for cast, with no metering beyond what I can PFL or Solo.
It was an adventure. I can not do 12 knobs with two hands at once, I can't even tell which guitarist turned their amp up too much (or released the -amilliondB disortion pedal) without pausing to PFL, and I'm still don't even know what the curve on the knobs is, say nothing of be able to mix as smoothly as with a nice 100mm fader with a logarithmic curve *that I've been used to for years*.
All in all, the result for the audience was fine. Missed a lot of the subtlety, there were some just blatant wrong bits, and the drummer got a lot of cast pre-fader in his monitor briefly in Act 2, but I've been to worse sounding Guild shows, much worse sounding other shows in local community theater, and much worse sounding (at least from our seats) real tours at real theatres.
Here's hoping the right fuse fixes everything tomorrow morning, and I don't have to run around trying to find a new power supply, whole new console of some sort, or doing this again tomorrow night.