Hey ya'll!! (Lame..) Time for an update! Like anyone actually reads this. Well maybe...
Almost a month ago I was asked to be a "House Soundman" for a local night club. They had recently undergone a remodel and needed someone to handle and manage the newly installed sound system, as well as be the on staff Mix Engineer to properly provide sound for all of their "Live" performances.
Techy Stuff (For those who are interested):
At first I was a little intimidated by the new digital console (Tascam DM 4800) that was installed. I'm an analog guy, and stuck in my ways. Nothings more fun then sorting through a spaghetti mess of XLR inserts, patch cables, 1/4", and "wall-warts." Not to mention a rack full of compressors, gates, eq's, and fx. I have to say I was a little disappointed to find out the new board wasn't an Allen & Heath nor a Yamaha or Digidesign. It was a Tascam. A digital console completely designed to be in a studio, and yet seams to intigrate quite well into a "Live" setting. It has 48 channels of input, 24 channels of stereo bussing ( Yeah!... 24!), and 12 Aux sends. 4-band sweep EQ, compressor, gate, TC Works delay & reverb on all channels all in one box. Pretty killer. I'm sending a stereo feed through DBX Dsp processing to control the room, Eq, and speaker management, running staight on through to Crown cti series amps and JBL mains. Bitchin Camero! I'm sending my lows through an "Aux" feed, Big Mick style, to my Peavey driven subwoofers and reinforcing the stage monitor mix with a few...I know...Iknow... Behringer monitors and QSC amps. Except for the drum monitor. There, I mounted a 12" JBL passive monitor atop and active Mackie 15" subwoofer. Yeah, that's right, the drummer gets his/her own sub! Rockin! Oh, and my mic list, well it has improved too. A cornucopia of Sennhieser, Audix, and Shure.
End Techy stuff.
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