Big soundcheck day

Last Sunday, we had our big soundcheck day. We had access to a nice room with a stage to tweak and play with our system and spend the first few hours on individual instruments: what microphone, where exactly to place this, and the initial settings (pre-amp, EQ, compression) for that channel on the IDR. In the afternoon, all Gonnagles went on stage and played for about on hour.

Setting up the total mix was a breeze, since the individual channels are already set up. Also, setting up the monitor mixes is easy: just walk on stage with the table and set the levels :)

Some things that bothered me are:

• sometimes, the ilive editor displays the message: system busy. You have to wait a few seconds before you can do anything
• when an editor connects, the already connected editors and PL10 are very very slow
• when an editor fails (network failure), the other editors and PL10 don't respond for almost a minute
• the 5ghz wireless network is not really good though walls

I've uploaded our show file here, which contains all our settings and such. For now, we have just 3 monitor mixes (1: left, 2: right, 3: guitar).

Raising the stage

IDR32 rack

IDR32, PL10, Tablet, Macbook

Stage

Gijs mixing

Frank and Gijs relaxing at FOH

Side-stage

Normal view

Marijn and Moes

Violin Tree

Gijs checking the harp

Frank mixing

Frank mixing again

Dennis and Moes