I'm part of an amateur dramatics group and we are putting on a sketch show next February. We'd like it recorded. Visual side is taken care of so now we just need to figure out what to do in terms of audio.

I'm weighing up two options.

1. A microphone centre stage, floor level. A matched pair of Rode NT5s either side, and an audience microphone to pick up any laughs. Record these through a Focusrite Audio Interface onto my laptop.
2. Use a handheld recorder with XLR inputs (namely a Zoom H6e). The onboard microphone would record centre stage with the NT5s stereo pair as before and dedicated audience mic.

I would be grateful for any advice on which of these approached would be best - or if both of these approaches are awful then an alternate suggestion would be welcome (baring in mind a limited budget). We aren't looking for perfect quality here and we aren't able to use wireless microphones.

Secondly - the NT5 matched pair - would these be best at stage floor level along the front of the stage, or on the stage at head height on the far left/right? See photo for an image of the space.

https://preview.redd.it/42rc6x9zah4e1.png?width=2048&format=png&auto=webp&s=9ac23953a8995b80272a5f3b3e7810bcc7097340

Anyone know if theres a way to build a scene file for DM7 offline and import it instead of having to replace the whole console data?

I do a lot of work at a venue that has all the matrices patched to delays, fills, etc, and would like to safe all that when I import a scene. The only way I've been able to do show files on it so far is by importing everything, losing scenes and not being able to safe anything.

TIA

Hi there! Thought this might be a fun discussion. I see this sort of thing with various local sound guys in my area such as labelling the house music channel with a music note or something similar. What has been your “signature” as a sound guy on any setup you do that would automatically make any other tech that knows you go “Yup I know exactly who was here last”

Mine has been to label the house music track on every board I mix on as “Tunez.” Not sure why I started doing it or even when, but I make it a point to always do it every single time I get on a mixer whether it’s a crappy Mackie analog or a top of the line digital board. Over the years it has become pretty synonymous with me in my local circle of techs where on several occasions I’ve had guys tell me the second they see Tunez on the board they knew I used the board last and even a few times where they said they were relieved that I used it last so they knew things weren’t going to be messed up.

Have you developed a signature in your mixer setups or even just setups in general even if it’s not on the mixer itself? Would love to hear what yours are!

I’m old and starting to doubt my knowledge and skill set.

I just had a contractor suggest I get rid of my Danley Speakers and install

JBL PD 566 speakers with Ashley Amplifiers

Am I nuts? Have things changed where Danley can’t do the job?

Hello I bought Chinese 4 channel headmicrophones.

I worked with them at small theaters with no big budget. Everything works greats. They have frequency finder if you change city etc.

but yesterday I worked in one microphone. after one hour of use the number 1 frequency stopped for one second . the. worked for one hour great and stopped for one second again.

I have to buy antennas?

Hi all,

I’m recording a big Christmas concert in my concert hall at work. It’s about 16 channels, mostly solos amplification, no big deal. This year, the local news station would like us to record it so they can broadcast on Xmas day. So, I’m adding some room mics etc and will have about 25 channels all told. I have an M32 and I know I can plug it into my computer as an interface and take a multitrack. Will it give me the live feed prefader? Am I going to be able to record the channels and still send them to the house? I’ve tried looking up these answers, but I still am not confident. Any help is appreciated!

Im using 3 JBL Vrx 932 LA a side, this is the reading from just the left side, im a free field. Any clue what could be the cause?

Anyone else doing Broadcast with Avantis? I wish I could assign multiple functions to one Softkey:)

I soundchecked my band in a venue on an x32 console, which is belonging to the venue, but most of the other venues the band played at, has an xr18 or some other xr rack mixer. Can I load the showfile I saved on the x32 to the xr18 without any issues, or it won't work?

I've got a new Compact arriving soon and struggling to find any cases around. Does anyone know either a good case for it (rack or otherwise) or a good custom flight case manufacturer?

The only stupid questions are the ones left unasked.

Don't know what to purchase as an upgrade? Looking to just get started and don't know which options are right for you? Whether you need a big system or a small one, all those questions go here!

Most over killed console for a Lebanese DJ group ( yes they’re rider requested the big boy)

So im running a mix with a band, theyve just got an X32 rack and an s16, im used to the full board but overall i like the form factor, little bit restricting but it beats carting a full desk around.

Im using combinator on LR, realised i would probably prefer to also have a stereo graphic, no problem, ill just use a matrix.... so, heres my question.. I know the X32 rack doesnt have matrix outs, but does it still have matrices internally, coz id really like to set up an insert graphic on the matrices and patch the outs from the matrices to bus outs. I dont really have it in front of me otherwise i would check myself lol.

EDIT : thanks guys, i guess coz ive always patched them to busses on the stagebox i just presumed there were dedicated mtx outs on the back somewhere. wasnt sure if the small form factor removed any features im used to using.

I have a Furman F1500 UPS in my stage rack that powers my console IO and my wireless gear. At a recent show during changeover, the house engineer accidentally shut off the circuit my rack was plugged into. Since I was at FOH, I had no idea this happened until about 20 minutes into my show once the UPS ran out of battery.

I’m looking for a way to monitor the UPS from FOH so that I have time to fix any power issues before it brings my show down.

I have a network set up between FOH and the stage that I can piggyback off of. I also have 1 unused pair in a Cat5 line between FOH and the stage (the other 3 pairs are used for analog audio currently).

Ideally I’d like some kind of indicator light at FOH that could turn on or off if the UPS loses power. Does anyone have a solution for this?

I had a problem with a audix d4 making a cracking sound when the drummer hit the floor tom during soundcheck. The sound was only produced when he hit hard. I was nowhere near clipping anywhere in the signal chain.

I switched the cable and all was good, but later when I tested the cable it was fine according to the cable tester. Solder points in the connectors looked fine as well.

What else could be wrong?

As a Shure wireless user, I've found out that some of these are compatible, so this is only about the capsules. Does anyone have any experience with these? Are they worth looking at, or are they just some poor man's Neumann knockoffs?

Hi everyone, for the past few weeks I’ve been learning L’acoustics network manager and have one question to which I cant find any answer. I have most experience with Armonia in which you always specify the number of cabinets connected to one amplifier channel. I cant find anywhere in LaNM where you would specify this. Does the amplifier get this number by measuring the impedance on the output?

Thanks

I play the audio from a tablet through my PA, and I'm having a problem with my tablet audio randomly pausing during playback, here and there. I cant think of any obvious reason it might be doing it, but i'm wondering if it's related to the lead i'm using.

The lead i use is a simple 3.5mm headphone jack one end, and XLR plug the other. I believe the lead is a balanced lead.

I know this lead doesn't provide the stereo signal into the mixer, as the lead is a balanced XLR lead, and not a stereo XLR lead (if there even is such a thing?). But mono is fine.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but does this mean the Right channel is being earthed due to the wiring of a balanced lead?

Ok, so some headphone sets have additional controls on them, skip, pause etc, and if memory serves, they are able to provide this feature by switching different size resistors down to the earth, and smart devices read this resistance to know which button is being pressed.

Ok, getting to the point now.... if that's the case, could the wiring of a balanced lead be providing an input to the tablet, essentially telling it to 'pause' intermittently?

Or... have i gone down a completely unfounded rabbit hole?

I inherited some xlr cables but they say they have a bad ground. Can fix that by changing the connectors

Promoted my first show recently, went a little crazy and ended up running lights and sound myself. Ran two 15s from sticks and a 12 center fill on stage, mixed it all from a laptop and x-32 rack on stage - band on IEMs

Night of the show I was happy to have any sound at all lol but I'm looking back now and trying to improve. I don't hate the way the show sounded but think the vocals could have been much better. For lack of proper terms I would have liked them to sound crisper and more separated in the mix but not sure where to even start there. Are there certain frequencies I should have chased, less distortion and more volume? The keys were also buried but that is what is is.

Would appreciate if anyone could watch this 30 sec clip and give feedback

https://imgur.com/a/7mQF5x4

Hey all!

A question about a possible ambience/talk back mic set up.

My band just upgraded to an IEM system (3 of us wireless, drummer wired) and we’ve already noticed how “shut out from the real world” it feels. I’m worried that this may be an issue at our shows, which are usually at small venues and sometimes bars and clubs, where we like to engage with the crowd and sometimes we’ll take song requests. Also, I do have to remind our drummer how to start certain songs and sometimes we do make changes to the set lists.

I’m toying with the idea of setting up a condenser mic (we have an extra overhead drum mic) in front of the drum kit facing the audience to work both as an ambience and talk back mic. Someone suggested this on previous post. A couple of questions/notes:

-Could this work? -I could add a high pass filter to avoid any stage and venue lows -Each of us could adjust the levels individually, but would we have to constantly make adjustments? -Someone also suggested doing a side chain to “duck” the signal when a guitar plays? Not entirely sure what means. Just wanted to throw it out there.

Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I'm looking for a way to just be able to put VST plugins on my mic to make it sound better for livestreams, voice chats and calls etc.. I know OBS itself can run them, though I would still like to have them on when talking through other things. I'm also aware that some interfaces have intern audio racks that you can use for that purpose, yet, as far as I know, mine doesn't (Scarlet 2i2 4th gen). Waves's StudioVerse has a rack that would technically work, though I'm not really inclined to pay for a subscription. Meanwhile softwares such as LiveProfessor I've only heard of being used with actual physical mixers (I only use VoiceMeeter to regulate my inputs), leaving me unaware of whether I would still fully be able to use it without such.

Are there any recommendations or does anyone have any insight of these things?

Thanks in advance.

I have tried multiple USB sticks and the Behringer X32 will never see them.

How can I take scenes from this board so I can put them into another x32 elsewhere?

Thanks

I’m running a PA1U as an interface to my computer to run tracks. The interface is in our rig which may be far(ish) from my computer but I’m finding that a long (20ft minimum) usb c to c cable is not easy to find. I see some people recommending thunderbolt, but I’m not too knowledgable on what I actually need. Does anyone have any recommendations for a cable that can accomplish this?

Our bluegrass band has just started gigging and I am looking for some advice on my setup.

I have a Martin d28 with a K&K mini pickup. I am running a few effects pedals into a Fishman platinum preamp and have been plugging that straight into our xr18.

We don’t have a sound guy so I have been in charge of our EQ. Might be my issue but I don’t like the tone I’m getting when plugged in regardless of the eq. Just sounds too muddy and electric to me.

I have a Fishman mini amp and Fender Deluxe tube amp. Would I have better results utilizing either of those in between my pedals and the mixer?

Would getting an amp/cab simulator pedal help me at all?

Should we just pay someone to get us set up?

Very new to the live plugged in acoustic stuff so any advice is much appreciated.

Thanks!

Good evening.

I have a problem with my setup using the TF1 as a console to record audio/video shows with 2-3 guests.

The TF1 is connected to PC via USB (i5 11th gen, Win 10) and as it happens, sometimes, there is a missing portion of the audio recording. It may happen after the 11th minute, or not at all.

Because it happened twice, I decided to connect a USB SSD drive yesterday, to serve as backup. The funny thing is, this time it happened on the USB drive and not on the PC.

So let's say the whole audio recording is 30 minutes, and around 11:15 the audio is missing, but there is no silence, instead it jumps 3 seconds later and continues. This screws up the camera sync later in post. I will post an example exactly how it sounds. The speech between 1 and 2 is cut, there is 0.5 sec missing inbetween.

https://reddit.com/link/1h4ept7/video/b7hb4cjl6b4e1/player

BTW I am using Adobe audition CC and sample rate is matched (48Khz). What can I do to diagnose this? I can replace the PC, but since it happened on the USB drive as well, I am not really sure if I should.

Looking for a serious discussion. Not intended to be complaining or anything like that.

Is this one of the most thankless jobs there is? I'm asking this off the basis of the fact that we can cater hundreds, sometimes thousands of people. What we do is extremely important, sometimes critical for the show (meaning it's not happening without someone in the audio board):

• Each audience member worried about their specific experience and usually completely ignorant of how our job works.
• We're usually the first to arrive and the last to leave a given event, sometimes days before/after
• When something goes wrong (however small or inconsequential), we are ridiculed, stared at, or worse, even if it's not our fault or even in our control
• When we do a good, or great job, most don't know or pay attention that you were even there.
• We are expected and usually encouraged to go above and beyond our title and do more than what is necessary and cover the mismanagement or ill preparation of others.

What other jobs have this kind of thankless nature? Jobs where you're directly interacting with your audience with your expertise. I know there's a lot of jobs that go unnoticed by others and others that are underappreciated, I'm Just curious where live sound (or production as a whole) measures in the professional realm

*** I love what I do!! Couldn't imagine doing anything else. And tbh I absolutely love the fact that I can do a good job and go unnoticed, the introvert in me wouldn't want it any other way***