Soooo...I bought the Stagescape mixer a couple of months ago. Love it so far! I've done a lot of forums reading, skimmed through the manual, watched a lot of videos, and played with the unit a fair amount. I'm getting ready to do our first gig with it, 5 piece country rock band. For me, there's a certain level of anxiety that comes with this first time adventure and it's probably in part due to not being a sound engineer. Anyhow, I'm thinking if I had a process or workflow map of setting up the M20d properly for the gig I may have a fighting chance. Does anyone have or can share with me the high level steps you take to set-up the M20d for your band?
I "borrowed" some of these from other posts, but this is what I've come up with so far:
Pre gig set-up
- Stage with mics and instruments
- Use canned pre-sets for starters
- Set up monitors
Gig set-up
- Masters all down (some monitor level ok)
- Set vox levels to unity gain
- Set all other instruments to -5db
- Auto trim Kick and Snare independently for baseline (mic)
- Auto trim the overheads while drummer plays full kit (mics)
- Re-autotrim all three drum channels.
- Auto trim bass independently (line level input)
- Auto trim guitar (mic)
- Auto trim keys (direct)
- Auto trim vox mics seperatly
- Record sound check song(s)
- Tweak FOH
What am I missing? At what point should I ring out the room? Does someone have a preferred process for doing that?
All pointers welcome.
Thanks
Martin