[JeffParticipant]

Hi Daniel,
Well, “worth it” is relative…it ain’t cheap, cheapest street price I’ve seen for the M-Dante card is around $1300. But, it’s the only way you’re going to get the ability to multitrack and virtual soundcheck with a GLD (I have two GLD’s linked with the M-ACE cards).

You *will* need to have a computer running Dante Controller to route the Dante channels between devices on the network and either Dante Virtual Soundcard (records 64 channels) or Dante VIA (records and sends 16 channels at near 0 latency). If all you want to do is multitrack and virtual sound check, Virtual Soundcard is the ticket. You can get a PCIe card that will do 128×128, but it’ll run you around $800.

Are you currently just recording a copy of what’s coming out of the mains to the USB? If so, you’ll never get that to sound the same. However, there are alternatives to try, like using a Stereo Aux for dedicated recording and have a separate tech mix that via headphones or nearfield monitors in an isolated room using either the iPad app for the GLD or GLD Editor. Before we got our 2nd GLD for Broadcast use, that’s what we did. It allows you to mix in aspects of the performance that are acoustically loud enough in the room but not in the mix so it sounds more like the room sound.

Hope this helps,
Jeff

[JeffParticipant]

Steffen,
The problem is it’s two different show files, and show files have discreet scenes, so you apparently cannot recall a scene from one show file into another.
I was thinking maybe there was a manual way to do this on the USB backup, i.e. move the scene files from one showfile folder to another, but it seems not.
In hindsight, I should have kept both GLD showfiles the same file, and saved scenes for the specific routing of the FOH GLD vs the Broadcast GLD, but…
Then I’d be able to bring up a copy of the showfile with the Christmas concert scene to the Broadcast GLD and recalled the channel setups only.

I actually do have backups of the scenes and showfiles, the entire USB in fact, to a file server and two or three different laptops.

Thanks,
Jeff

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