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Clint,

You could Gang mono channels (fader attribute) and bury one of the channels (L or R) on a different layer. Leave the routing and pans attribute out of the gang. You’ll know which side is bad right away being your in stereo. Hit mix on the mains and toggle the bad channel off in the routing (jump to the layer of the buried channel first if that’s the culprit) and then pan the other channel to center.

This all depends on if you have enough channel strips to bury some channels in a layer and whether you are using the ganging function already and how many you have available as well as how many stereo channels your using.

Just an idea… and BTW if you have this trouble a lot tell those cheap guitar players to buy some new cables. [] [}]

Scott

iDR 32
iDR D-Out
MMO
Lenova T61, M90, iPad soon I hope.

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FWIW, If anyone wants to roll your own on the cheap I picked up a package of “driving lights” at the local farm store. These are small linear LED lights about 4″x 1/2″ x 1″ that are supposed to mount under or on the bumper of a vehicle. I was pretty sure for slightly over 20$ they’d be a joke for a vehicle but wondered if they’d be usable for console lights or something similar. I had a old 12V wall wart in the junk box and hooked em up to that and they work fairly well for what I’ve got in them. If I can find some small diameter gooseneck material somewhere I’ll have a couple of nice lights for under 30$. Just remains to be seen if the LED’s hold up.

Scott

iDR 32
iDR D-Out
MMO
Lenova T61, M90, iPad soon I hope.

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Hi All,

Been following this thread and learning as we go. Looking at a different angle I’d like to approach this from if I’m understanding networking better; still not real confident if I’ve got this correct. I’ve found this GS108Tv2 Netgear 8 port switch that I’d like to use on stage with all the rack gear. It’s a managed switch that has IGMP snooping v3 with the latest software. (The website is not exactly up to date in some places and makes it harder to find some info.) I’m thinking of using this with an access point.(AP) BTW TP-Link makes several high data rate AP’s and they even use POE so you could power them from the rack and then locate the AP up higher or wherever you can get good coverage of the venue.(They also have a good selection of high gain antennas that work on their gear.) The GS108Tv2 is also capable of using POE but because it’s in my rack I don’t really need to use it. The switch would serve the AP, the iDR 32, amp rack and DBX 48x processors (Monitors) through a Moxa serial port. Could even run a hard line to FOH for the small desktop if I like.

The one question I can’t answer for sure has to do with IGMP using a Querier in the system somewhere that uses a table to keep tabs on ports etc. for the multicast info and routing or something to that effect. It’s a router or switch that provides the Querier function and being many of us are just using our gear as a LAN we don’t really need a router to connect to an outside network or WAN. The exception would be if you want to tie into the Internet or other network in a venue. If anyone understands the Querier part in this and whether a switch like this should work with multicast as being discussed in this thread I’d welcome the input.

Here’s some other info on netgears site for anyone that’s interested.
Manual The link looks to be v2 but I’m not sure the dowload is???
Data sheet

Scott

iDR 32
iDR D-Out
MMO
Lenova T61, M90, iPad soon I hope.

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Originally posted by theWhiplash

Anyone else have noisy DCAs? 2 of mine (which I believe were replaced two months ago T80/IDR32 system) are passing what seems almost like pink noise (although only from about 6K to 10K). Muting the channel outputs assigned to them does not change the amount of noise when I mute/unmute the DCAs. It does not have the audible noise level on every scene though as I am using them on the other band/solo artist as well.
The only thing I have not tried yet is starting a new scene from scratch. This is puzzling to me.

Matthew Grunden
Big Daddy Weave
FOH/PM

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You don’t have band passed noise assigned in the signal generator do you? []

P.S. Where are you hearing the noise? LR, Bus’s, Aux’s, PAFL’ing the DCS’s etc. Might narrow it down. Maybe you could post a show file and some one could see if it’s a repeatable issue. (Provided it was tried with no inputs to the rack and possibly even no surface) That would in theory tell if it was hardware related.

Scott

iDR 32
iDR D-Out
MMO
Lenova T61, M90

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Originally posted by CMattE

My rep as Full Compass emailed me the promotion. Looks like you need a surface and a mixrack to qualify. But it wouldn’t hurt to ask. FWIW it also apparently needed to be mailed by yesterday. Considering we started ordering ours February 3rd I’m hoping to still qualify. But I can’t send it in until I get the Serial #’s off the gear. Here’s hoping it works.

Ordered a T112/48 Feb 22, 2011.

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Thanks for the confirmation Matt! I pretty much deduced it would take a full system to get a deal like that, but if they would sell me one for half price I’d take it. [] I’ve seem some more news about the iPad 2 supposedly being announced tomorrow so I guess we’ll find out soon. I’ve got a nephew that works at a big Apple store so maybe he could get me a deal on the original if they mark them down at all.

My “system” arrived yesterday, ordered Feb 15 also through FC, promptly fired it (iDR32) up, connected the wireless router and proceeded to put it through the paces. Worked flawlessly and sounded good listening in the cans. Seemed responsive with my Lenova X61, which just meets the minimum recommended. Bet yours is coming soon, I’m in NE and it doesn’t take long for shipping to here.

Scott

EDIT: Whoops…iPad 2 being announced now!

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Originally posted by Biggsounds

As an unexpected side benefit – the Sunday show was in a venue with a reputation for hassling engineers to ‘turn it down’ regardless of what volume you run it at… that is if they know where you are (thanks to the portability to wander in the other direction when I saw them coming I didn’t get a single complaint all day!).

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Sounds like maybe A&H need to put in a special buttton. Tap it and quickly bring up something that looks like an email etc. Then if someone comes over….. “Me mixing, no, just checking my email.” []

Scott

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Originally posted by mr.cat5

My kick drum fader went up to unity in its owne. I pulled it to down just to have it go up on its own again. I went to an aux and then back to a mix padge there it was waiting for me. pulled it down. I went back and forth to my mix padge and there it was again.

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Ok, joking aside, related to what Ray mentioned can you narrow it down to that paticular fader? Does the fader travel down if it’s at zero on another layer, ie. mechanical or fader servo control not moving it down at all. If you change the fader assignment with another fader does the problem stay with the fader or go with the kick drum channel. Those might be things that would help tech support narrow down what’s causing it and whether it’s the fader control or something else actually sending a fader control signal.

Scott

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Originally posted by jcintas

The iPad deal was through American Music and Sound of Woodland California who are the A & H Distributers for the US. They are at every show like NAMM and Infocomm representing A&H. They had a flyer at NAMM in January saying if you can show you purchased an iLive system before the end of February that they would give you a free iPad. I personally talked to Michael Palmer the National Sales Manager for US A&H and he said it is true. The problem is their website says nothing about it, even though he said it would be on there.

— Jerry

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I don’t suppose an iDR-32, M-MMO-A and an iDR D-OUT are considered a system? []

Scott

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Originally posted by mr.cat5

My kick drum fader went up to unity in its owne. I pulled it to down just to have it go up on its own again. I went to an aux and then back to a mix padge there it was waiting for me. pulled it down. I went back and forth to my mix padge and there it was again.

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Does the drummer have an iPhone, iPad or computer? []

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Originally posted by mumu

hmm after playing round with the faders i was thinkin about a different approach….just an idea…have a look

https://megapeng.com/public/altfader.jpg

cheers
dave

allen&heath iLive-144 /idr 64 / idr 48 (i am convinced audionate is not delivering coz i am a frank zappa fan)

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I don’t have an iPad yet so I have no idea how sensitive or jittery they are but that sounds like a nice addition. Or maybe even have a touch above the fader bump it up a bit or below for a bump down. A swipe in the track (not on the fader) would do a slower move down or up. Or even touch and hold for a fade.

Probably depend on how complex the code is and if the iPad has enough power for that.

Also wish I knew when the iPad 2 is coming out. I hate to buy one now only to have them discounted when the new one comes out if that happens.

Scott

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Originally posted by woutert

UPDATED

I’m indeed not sure if an standard RDP client also propagates the audio output to the remote machine.

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UPDATE: this looks promising:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee791794%28WS.10%29.aspx
“Audio and video playback redirection is allowed by default when connecting to a computer running Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP Professional.”

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Wouter
My prayers have been heard, Dante is coming!

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Yes RDP seems to work well doing that. I’ve just pulled up audio files and listened to them on a client. There’s an option in RDP to select local or client audio. I haven’t tried getting an outside audio signal in but I don’t see that to be a problem.

Scott

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Jeff,

Just a note to mention. You can gang those mics and just select EQ and maybe the lowpass for control. Hitting “Select” on any of those mic channels and adjusting EQ will change all of them. Of course the parametric is the only EQ available in the channels and you likely want some individual conrol of EQ in which case this won’t work but still a handy tool to keep in mind.

You could gang several groups(or any of the outputs) for GEQ control and have individual parametric conrol of the groups however.

Scott

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I’d agree with Kent. You may need some transformer isolation. I’ve seen comments elsewhere about Dell having a poor grounding design, at least on older laptops. I haven’t seen anything about whether they’ve gotten better on newer models. I have an older Inspiron 8200 that was bad this way. Even a high quality USB Pre interface had hum when recording into Audacity. Running on battery or (cough) lifting the ground on the Dell got rid of it. A stereo DI also fixed it. I also can’t recommend lifting the ground as it’s there for a reason. Mine uses a lump so its low voltage at the laptop as most are but the ground may offer static discharge protection for the laptop. Can’t say for sure though as I have a Thinkpad with only a two prong edison. Running on battery when recording would be the obvious cheap fix if the battery is good and has sufficient capacity for the needed time. You possibly could buy a high capacity battery for less than the DI or isolation transformers.

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Originally posted by abstractnoise

Can we perhaps have the *option*? Actually I could find it very useful, but I’d need to be able to it off so as not to confuse newcomers to the desk or to the differences between DCA/VCA’s and Groups – the point about confusion is valid.

“A computer once beat me at chess. It was no match for me at kickboxing.”
-unknown.

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You could create some groups in your configuration (if you’re not maxed out) Assign the same channels to the groups as the DCA’s and don’t send the groups anywhere. Give them names, create your custom meters and use those as your reference. Just a thought!

Scott

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Originally posted by ddff_lv

Don’t have a mixer in front of me – is it possible to send SUB out to matrix?

ddff

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Yes and looks like it should work well. From the block diagram it looks like a matrix fed from a main/aux is taken pre-delay and selectable pre/post fader. So the Main/Sub feeds would have their delays and the other subs would have their own delay on the matrix feed. It might be in the Manual but I couldn’t find it and am going by the block diagram. Please correct me if I’m seeing this wrong!

Scott

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