TooBoku Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 This is a conversation continuing from another thread... One of my favorite things about behind-the-scenes videos from the fashion world is seeing the photographers and the equipment they use - I'm such a gadget-geek lol. I love Canon. My Dad bought me a EOS 650 when I was 8... we found it at a garage sale for $7!!! Took many many pictures with that... we used to keep a garbage bin in the car because we would drive around and eat in the car all the time and I kept the camera there just in case... then it accidentally got thrown out Easy come easy go I guess. I totally hear you on the gadget geekiness though... now I'm into audio equipment. Behold... the beast I get to play with every other Sunday One Digidesign Venue Live Audio Mixing Console... one the first ones in Canada... A live show sound guy's wet dream. TOOBS,I'M A MUSIQ PRODUCTION AND AUDIO ENGINEERING STUDENT :shock:HOW THA HELL DID U GET THAT EQUIPMENT? ARE U USING PROTOOLS HD? TOOBS TOOBS TOOBS TOOBSHOW MUCH DID U PAY FOR YOUR CONSOLE? TOOBS TOOBS TOOBS TOOBS TOOBSDID U BUY EXTERNAL HARDWARE SUCH AS COMPRESSORS AND LIMITERS TOO? Hahahahaha! It's nice to have someone else to talk geek with once in a while! Actually. I attend a non-denominational church where I volunteer every other Sunday. I'm more of a wire-monkey than a sound guy but I do get a chance to play with the consoles. One of my best friends works in the recording industry though and he gets to play with the ICON every single day. The console was around $80,000 which is actually pretty cheap for a board with it's capability. As for the externals... we still have them from the old analog board but there's no need for any of that anymore because of the protools plugins. http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?navid=...langid=100& Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irenistiQ Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 1. how big is your church? [rich too] who's the pastor? $80 gees for that is pretty ok.. but i guess it suits the needs of the church.. -i.e. choirs,instruments,drums,vocalists,back ups,preacher,etc... so u're doing more of live sound... then why do y'all need pro tools for church? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irenistiQ Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 what's your old analog board,btw??? and what plugins do y'all use??? livesound livesound livesound... or nooot??? p.s. moderator Qball records with his band too,hopefully he'll drop in here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TooBoku Posted November 27, 2007 Author Share Posted November 27, 2007 Church is about 2600 people in regular attendance. From my eyeball estimate.More information on website: http://theportico.ca/$80G is decent... we can rig it with 96 channels, 16 VCAs, X groups, 16 AUX, and a PQ system.The analog board is going into storage until the contrustion for the building extension is complete.Pro-tools is awesome for live sound. We're using plugins mostly for graphic EQs right now but we just got the board a month ago so everyone is still getting used to it. Eventually though, we will be programming live shows with this things so all anyone has to do is start the timer and all the channels will mute/unmute/solo autmatically, change EQs automatically when people share mics or wireless frequencies, activate certain effects/plugins automatically... Also, the plugins come in handy because we record all our live shows/services and the video editors could probably do better with some raw files than the AUX feed they've been getting with the analog system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irenistiQ Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 seems liQe the latency problem will not occur,but that's what i'm afraid of... how many engineers/soundmen are with u??? =) dude,change EQ automatiQally? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TooBoku Posted November 28, 2007 Author Share Posted November 28, 2007 Haha! That's exactally what I was afraid of too but it's not supposed to be a problem since the console has a limit to the number of plugins you have running at the same time and has throttling or something like that. I have to look into that more.You know what's even cooler than that though?You can control it through VNC.That means if I can find a VNC player for my cellphone... heheheh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irenistiQ Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 ttyl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TooBoku Posted November 29, 2007 Author Share Posted November 29, 2007 Heheheh...I just got back from installing the PQ system that attaches to it. Now the guitarist can turn down the BGVs himself and not have to cry about having too much vocals while I'm yelling at someone to un-mute their belt pack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irenistiQ Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 that's great... he can adjust the aux himself externally do y'all leave the same settings every sunday or do y'all test during music practices? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TooBoku Posted December 1, 2007 Author Share Posted December 1, 2007 It's different every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irenistiQ Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 do y'all rotate musicians and worship leaders??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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