No problem about the editor tip. Glad to help a fellow Church Audio Engineer.
I have a learned a basic rule of thumb when it comes to sub-grouping things on the iLive or GLD. Because you only have so many mix outputs, I have bent to just grouping things that you would process as a group like drums, guitars or vocals. Here is kind of the setup I have planned for my console when we get it for our new youth worship room.
INPUTS LIST:
1-6 – Drum Kit
7 – Drum Loop
8-10 – Percussion
11 – Bass
12-13 – Electrics
14-15 – Acoustics
16-17 – Keys
18 – Keytar
19 – Lead Vocal
20-21 – BGVs
22 – Speaker
23 – Wireless HH
45-46 – CD
47-18 – PC
I have exact duplicates (Shared Pre-Amps) of channels 1-16, 18-21, & 23 on channels 24-44 to set the monitors with so I can have separate channel processing for the monitors.
ST SUB-GROUPS:
1 – Drums
2 – Electrics
3 – Acoustics
4 – Vocals
Everything else gets assigned directly to LR.
MONO AUXS (All Wedges):
1 – Vocal 1
2 – Vocal 2
3 – Lead Gtr 1
4 – Lead Gtr 2
5 – Bass
6 – Drums
7 – Perc
8 – Subs
ST MATRIX:
1 – LR (Fed from the Left/Right Main Buss)
DCAS:
1 – Drums
2 – Perc
3 – Bass
4 – Electrics
5 – Acoustics
6 – Keys
7 – Lead Vocal
8 – BGVs
9 – LR/Sub (To control the LR Matrix and Sub Aux on one fader)
FX RACK:
1 – Plate Vocal (Returned to IP FX 1)
2 – ADT (Returned to IP FX 2)
3 – ST Delay (Returned to IP FX 3)
5 – Room Live Drums (Inserted on the Drums ST Group)
8 – Beware Sub Harmonics (Dual Mono Inserted on the Kick (1) and Bass (11) channels)
I got a good bit of the ideas for this setup from Robert Scovill of Avid. He has some really good live audio webinars on the Avid website about setting up FOH, FOH/MON, and MON show files. Of course he is using the Avid D-Show console, but some of the same things can apply to whatever console you are using. Just google Avid Live Audio Webinar Archive. You will have to sign up to be a member of the site, but you can say no to anyone contacting you.
Let me know what you think of the setup.
Scott
