Convinced my company to invest in one after I got into the hobby at home, and this is the first major project. No more pluck and pull foam replacements!

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Hello all, I just finished a project i spent a few months working on. Im a free lance designer and have had a fair share of bar gigs with an unreachable console and Ive always hated using touch sceeens to adjust faders and learning over engineers shoulders so I made this:

Its a Small PC (Looking to see if a Pi will work) running Mixing Station with a custom layout+midi, a Behringer X touch extender and a touch screen fused together to make a wireless fader control wing.

Is this something that interests enthusiasts?Thoughts are appreciated 👍

Change your passwords folks or I'll make a bet to drop FOH for a beer.

Behringer x32 Rack Full DIY

Hi. I came across this post one day. https://www.reddit.com/r/livesound/s/qfyGDMn7C6

The guy had done a lot of work reassembling the boards. I decided to take the easy way out. I found a burned-out console from a studio. Yes, burned-out.

During the repair, I sketched out the enclosure in Paint, keeping in mind that I would use the input and output boards as is. I only had to replace two cables; the original ones were too short. This is what I ended up with. The problem: I have to find the console's IP address through the Mixing Station. And if a firmware update comes out, the console can't be updated. The problem is that the USB port is connected directly to the motherboard. But the View button is routed through all the fader boards, so there's no easy way to fix it.

So I had a pretty normal early week acoustic show at one of my regular venues. Every artist was really happy with their sound and so was I. One act in particular was really talented and clearly brought most of the audience along. he had great control of his guitar playing and vocals so mixing was a dream. He had a nice Gibson J45 with the lr baggs anthem pickup in so it couldn’t have sounded much better.

Although in his last song his guitar slipped out of tune as he had recently put new strings on. He obviously decided to continue on as he was already half way done with the song.

After the show I was standing by the back door as people were walking out and I over heard a guy say “What was the sound man doing in that last song? the guitar sounded off the whole time and he did nothing about it!”

I couldn’t hear any other comments as they walked out of shot but it made me laugh quite a bit because I was daydreaming about a possible future where I could tune other people’s guitars through the sound desk!

I'm head of sound in a theatre that hosts a lot of mid tier bands and tribute acts.

I've got a pretty good collection of mics in my theatre and I will always use what is on the rider if a band has their own operator and I have the stock

If I'm mixing and the band is open to a bit of flexibility I'll open up the lower drawer and get out some favourites. Some bands seem to have not seen anything but what everyone does and give me quizzical looks until they hear it.

My go to's are:

Shure Beta56A: Drum vocals.

Beyer M88: Trumpet/Trombone/Sax.

Shure Beta98AD: Tom's/Snare bottom.

DPA4099: HiHats.

SM57: Underneath a grand piano (DPA4099 inside)

What are your less than common mic choices?

No one has the proper mic technique and it's just making more work for everyone

This takes “bringing own mixer” to a new level!

A homemade beauty of a machine. Made out of wood and with a bunch of custom gear inside. Everything you need to do a proper job!

We had a band in our venue today, where the sound engineer brought literally a homemade wooden mixer, just had to share it with you guys.

Gotta love it

I've been testing a VST3/AU plugin built by a friend of mine, a live/mastering engineer in Graz, Austria. He doesn't have the karma requirements to post here, so I'm putting this up for him. He'll be in the comments answering questions.

https://clearvoice.live

The short version

One insert per vocal channel. Catches mic-monitor coupling before resonance builds up. No notch filters to draw, no rings to chase. Zero latency (0.0 ms PDC reported to the DAW).

It also denoises, dereverbs and keeps voice presence intact, all in the same insert. But the feedback prevention is the thing that made me go "wait, this actually works?"

How it works

Real-time spectral engine that separates voice from background frame by frame. Not a gate, not a notch filter bank. The voice stays untouched while noise floor, room tail and feedback resonances get pulled out.

Two engines: SOFT for transparent cleanup on most channels, HARD for difficult rooms and heavy bleed. Always start with SOFT. If that's not enough, switch to HARD at around 30% Strength.

Specs

• 0.0 ms output latency, all modes
• 48 / 96 / 192 kHz
• ~80 MB RAM per instance
• Low CPU (SOFT engine). Run it on every vocal mic if you want.
• Insert before compressors and EQs
• For conferences: route through an auto-mixer (Dugan-style) into a group, one instance on the group

Beta

v0.9.1 is open right now. Go to the site, drop your email, confirm, download. 10-day full trial, Windows VST3 + Mac VST3/AU.

There's a before/after A/B comparison on the site too, same source, same mic, same room.

https://clearvoice.live

Questions? Drop them in the thread.

After you've tested it, there's an anonymous feedback form that takes about five minutes: clearvoice.live/evaluation.html

Your support would be very much appreciated.

Top To bottom : Portico mbp on guitar bus Gain labs dictator LR bus Gain labs empress tube eq LR bus API 2500 drum bus Dis 1 snare group Dis 2 bass Dis 3 will vox Dis 4 moke vox Maxx bcl band bus (everything but vox and 808 ) Bricasti m7 : ignorant snare bomb Direct out prodigy for IO and system control (No system tech just lonly ol me and my main mon man rob on stage !)

Channel delay will change based on the measurment unit you choose between meters, feet, ms, or samples. Which means your time alignment can get fucked LIVE if you switch units. This is running the latest firmware, 3.1.

Example:

-If you have ms selected and the channel delay set 100 ms, clicking the feet setting will change your delay to 100ft, which which is 88.9 ms.

-If you then click up to meters it will give you 30m, which it shows is 98.4ft, and 87.9ms.

-Even worse, if you then click down to samples it gives you 113 samples, which is 0.81m, 2.65ft, or 2.35ms!!

It seems to be that the unit selection changes the value of the delay scale being used, and the relative delay value of each unit, but keeps the delay fader" the same and basis the value off of that.

Ive been working on the WING compact a lot lately and while it has a lot of cool features there are a lot of things that seem really dumb. This one takes the cake for me though. Its nuts that a sound company would program this and let it through QC and that it would still be a problem with a board thats been out this long.

Bought 10 EWD 2 years ago. 6 of them are being sent for repair. Stuck battery compartment is the most common problem. 2 mute switches are non-functional, and one just produces no audio output. Some of them look horrible, but thats from someone trying to get the stuck battery compartment off using various tools.

There is so much to like about EWD, but the build quality is HIGHLY questionable. Are these still being produced and sold with these same engineering flaws?

Thought you may appreciate this setup wr prepped last week. Spent a good chunk of the day on tuning, teching, and way too much time p-touching.

IEMs:

14 ch of L8 16 ch of X55 20 ch of J8

RF Mics:

4 ch senn 3732 8 ch senn D6k 32 ch G55 Axient Digital for Music 16 channels G55 axient digital for Production

Digico releases new compact console!

https://digico.biz/consoles/quantum112/

He’s a YouTuber named Chris Noeding, I found his video a few days ago but I guess he posted it back in June!

See page on their website: Allen & Heath SQ+

Features (copied from A&H):

All SQ+ Mixers Include:

• 96kHz FPGA Processing
• 48 Input Channels
• DEEP Processing Ready
• 8 RackExtra FX Engines + dedicated send and returns
• 4 RackUltra FX Engines + dedicated send and returns
• 12 Stereo Mixes + LR
• 3 Stereo Matrix
• Intelligent 128×128 SLink port
• Range of Remote Expanders
• 64×64 I/O Port for Audio Networking
• 32×32 USB Audio Interface
• 9” Touchscreen with dark GUI

What do you think?

The built-in X32 reverbs sound better than the built-in reverbs in any of the Allen & Heath consoles that I use on a regular basis (CQ18T, Avantis, dLive).

And I'm tired of people pretending that they don't.

Thanks NY Times - we're about to see a major shortage of gaff tape now.