Terry,
Thanks so much for your detailed response!! You pointed me in the right direction. I looked at a bunch of options on routing and here is what I ended up doing:
I have two sets of floor wedges – one for for those not on Avioms, who forgot their in-ears, etc. and one that feeds our drum headphones, since he’s in a cage. I have those going out A and B
Our mains I have going out through the Main L direct out. I have our sub going through our Main R direct out since it has a built-in crossover. That leaves me with 12 direct outs (since I have an SQ-6). For the Aviom I used Tie Lines to route the channels to the direct outputs. I have a eight-channel XLR F to 1/4 TRS snake and four single XLR F to 1/4 TRS cables to round everything out.
My big issue was in how I was going to control volume to each of the direct outputs. I already had the auxes going through mix 1 and 2, so that left me with mix buttons 3-12, so I was kinda stumped. You pointed me to look and i found that Tie Lines would do what I wanted – which is to basically shoot the signal from the XLR input straight out. So I *think* I have it working. My next resort was to use the Dante card to feed the Aviom system through an A-Net distributor, like the A800. If I ever need more than 12 channels, I’ll likely go that route, unless we get a great donation to buy the ME system. 🙂
This wasn’t totally my first foray into digital. I set up an X-Air system for one of our church plants, and when COVID hit and we were meeting outdoors a lot, I bought an X-32 Rack and a Midas 16-channel stage box. Like you mentioned, it has indeed made our life easier. And harder. 🙂
Thanks again!
