We the SD-9 in for a weekend before our SD-8 arrived and several people have asked my impressions of it. I’ll tell you what I think of it in a minute, but first let’s go over some specs. The SD-9 is the smallest (currently) in the newer SD line from DIGiCo. The naming structure may [...]
Posts Tagged ‘foh’
DIGiCo SD-8 Tips and Tricks Pt. 1
Most of you know we installed an SD-8 a few weeks ago. I’ve now had the opportunity to mix on it for several weeks, and really like it. The surface is very fast to get around, and the software has been optimized to help you get a lot done in a short amount of time. [...]
Night of Worship
This week we held a Night of Worship at Coast Hills. To say it was a big event would be an understatement. One could argue (and someone did point out) that we probably made it more of a production than it needed to be, but hey, that’s part of the fun. We had a big [...]
Mixing Webinar Tonight
Join me, Dave Stagl and Jason Cole tonight on the LiveStream channel at 7 PM PDT, 10 PM EDT as we discuss Mixing, Pt. 2. We’ll be picking up pretty much where we left off last time, as we decided we had way too much more to talk about. We’ll be discussing, Panning/Imaging/Stereo, Aux Fed [...]
The New System
Those of you that follow me on Twitter may have heard that we finally have approval to update our FOH/Monitor system. I’ve been talking about bits and pieces of it over the last few months, so I thought I’d write up the entire plan. If this doesn’t get too long, I’ll get into the why. [...]
Configuring the SD-8 Surface
Today I spent some time adapting my Digico SD-8 show configuration for our SD-8 demo this weekend. When we buy one, we’ll be buying the 37 channel version (made up of three 12-channel fader banks plus a master). For the demo, they could only get me a 25 fader version (missing the left fader bank). [...]
Why Digital Presets Aren’t All That
Recently, I was asked to stop by a church in the area to work on the EQ for the pastor’s mic. Their volunteer sound guys were having trouble getting it dialed in and they needed help. Since they work on an M7-CL, it would be a simple matter to dial up some EQ and compression, [...]
New From NAMM—Digital Consoles Pt. 2
Last time, we touched on the Phonic Summit and Presonus StudioLive. Both are small-format consoles suited for small installations, recording or portable systems (which is one of my interest at the moment). But I’m also looking at a FOH console. I’m leaning heavily towards to Digidesign Profile; which I had hoped to play with at [...]
Learning a New Board
Last weekend, we were about 20 minutes in to our stage set up when I realized there was a problem. Our regular FOH guy was not there. He’s been contracted to mix at Coast for something like 20 years, and he’s very reliable. So we called him. Turns out, we had ourselves a little scheduling [...]
EQ Libraries
One of the cool things about digital consoles is that you can save stuff you need to use again. Sometimes, we take this too far, and simply recall last week’s mix and call it good. That’s not really the right way to do things, as so much has changed from last week. Even if the [...]
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