StuMur

Hmm. No replies - that might not be a good sign.. :blink:

Hi Guys, I'm fully sick as a sound guy, and I mean that in a BAD way. I'm totally useless - never have I had the knack of pulling great sound. I'm a very experienced live gig muso, but I really can't pull live sound to save myself. As much as I have tried, I can't seem to make our 3-piece band sound clean/good quality at our live pub gigs with my beloved M20D - maybe because I'm busy playing? Might any kind souls out there be interested in getting my trio band's M20D soundcheck file emailed to them, and having a crack at engineering it properly for me on their M20D, then email it back to me so I can upload the settings etc back into my M20D for a presumably WAY more pro-quality sound? Is this possible with the M20D? I'd be happy to pay for your effort, particularly if you're a professional live engineer, or just a monster with the M20D? Hoping someone might get in touch to help out. I love this thing, but I'm sinking rather than swimming, and the pub bosses aren't happy..! Cheers, Stu.

Thanks for the mic tip mate, it's one I agree with as I just this week bought a few different old Sennheisers to try out.. The old Beta 58 sounds fine on my analogue system though, so I know it's definitely whatever I'm doing on the desk that is the issue rather than the mic as such. To be more precise, beyond my mic sound, I struggle to get good separation between instruments with the M20D so far (our instrumentation is: elec grand piano, elec guitar, 3 vox, elec drumkit and a laptop backing track) - I'll keep trying though as I really want this to work. 30 years of being a live gigging musician, and only a third of that pulling my own live sound from stage as I/the band plays, so I guess I just have to improve my soundguy chops - lol!

Thanks Silverhead.. That clarifies beautifully, and helps me immensely. Can I ask you what your honest thoughts are on the quality of the M20D's mic preamps - are they really genuinely of a premium quality? Also how good are the onboard effects? Having experimented a fair bit with the M20D now, these are the two areas of concern I have. I can make the rest of the band sound okay I guess, but as much as I try, I can't make my own vocal mic channel (I use a Beta 58 mic) sound any good like I could on my old analogue desk. Perhaps it's in the effects.. not sure. I'm a skinny white guy with no tone (of course- lol!), kinda like a thin Jon Bon Jovi kind of tone.. I need bottom eq boosted like crazy or I sound horrid. Tried that though, and just can't get it to happen. The Allen & Heath QU-16 was the other alternative before I bought the M20D. I presume it may have sounded much more premium (subjective term!), but who knows.. Would be great if the M20D had user-swappable presets.

...also - could someone please explain what the three recording options to SD card are specifically for? Why are their the three options - "Record Inputs and Main Mix", "Record Inputs Only" and "Record Main Mix Only".. What benefit is it to have that flexibility in recording either/or of those? Example?