[jonathhoParticipant]

While I think Dave is interesting and you can glean insight, some of his ideas such as frequency splitting mains on auxes are just too much for me in today’s world. I think the key thing is using groups when you want to process audio together whereas DCA’s are for mixing and especially on SQ5, being able to consolidate to a “money” layer to mix on much of the event. Most of us use groups for stem processing and DCA’s to control the faders feeding into those groups rather than riding group faders; as you turn up the input channel w/ the DCA it feeds into the group and is processed as you wish just as with riding an individual fader. On my SQ mixer I am also mixing IEM for our band, so I am limited in groups. Thus, I have groups for things I wish to process together, such as Drums, Drum Crush, Lead Vox. Others I control directly from DCA, processing only on individual channels, which in my world is Bass, Keys, Backing Tracks. That gives me the best of all worlds on SQ whereas on the D-Live I can have almost unlimited (for me) Groups – there is a reason it costs more! In HOW I have groups for Choir, BGV and more but those are on D-Live and Digico SD. Interesting to me is Robert Scovill (look him up on YouTube) with his idea of DCA grouping by performer – as in the performers guitars and vocal so he’s riding everything associated w/ that performer on one DCA. If I were mixing a key individual artist I might try that but in my bands and HOW, vocals are shared around too much, and doesn’t fit my workflow.

The great news is that at this price point there is nothing out there with the low latency and phase coherent signal path and so you can do pretty much anything and you know it’s going to come out the other end tight and together!

Hey Keith – Another plug for a 1U/2U rack mount SQ engine so band can mix all monitors from that unit and have more groups on my FOH console in a small package. I’d preorder and buy that in a skinny minute and I think you’d sell a ton of them. No preamps needed but do need option for 2nd Slink slot…Thanks!

[jonathhoParticipant]

Thanks everyone for your input, I think the decision will come to using A&H audio and control between mix racks or using Dante and new hub to feed aviom – that was a good suggestion. Thanks again!

House of Worship FOH Engineer

[jonathhoParticipant]

Thanks and yes I realize we’ll need a 2nd mix rack (thus the idr0 or idr16) but really it comes down to keeping in the A&H domain or transporting via Dante, etc. The biggest issue is our stage mix rack must have the MMO card for Aviom and so if I’m adding a 2nd mix rack then I’m thinking use A&H audio/control to get to the studio and have the benefits of the mix rack in the studio too. There’s almost too many options to consider which I guess is a good thing! Just wondering what others were doing for a video/studio and FOH split – not unlike monitor split for most use cases.

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Originally posted by tk2k

Hey Jonathan,

From your description, you might be under the impression a Mixrack can power two surfaces at the same time, which isn’t the case.

For your situation what would make the most sense would be to purchase an iDR 16 and whatever T surface you’d like, and then use a digital split standard (Dante, Ethersound, etc) to transport your audio. If you arent’ interested in digital split compatibility, you could use ACE and keep everything in the A&H domain.

Hope this helps

iDR-48, T-112, Mixpad
College

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House of Worship FOH Engineer

[jonathhoParticipant]

I have a call into AMS support now – I’m thinking a swap of the card is in order w/ defective ADAT ports as you say and per an older post. Definitely not sync master, sample rate, etc.

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Originally posted by Leon BigEars

If sync master isn’t the problem, it might be worth you taking a close up photo of the ADAT connectors on your MMO card and send the photo into support at American Music and Sound (US A&H distributor) or via your rep.
There was a batch of ADAT optical devices that had changed spec by the manufacturer and caused glitches etc.

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