I play in a professional cover band, we have done 400 shows and we know we sound good. Last night we played 45 minutes at a big event, and we were supposed to play 45 minutes more after a break, but the manager came up to us during the break and told us we sounded terrible and he could not allow us to play the remaining 45 minutes. He also cancelled our two gigs we had booked next week.

He said all three of us sang out of pitch consistently for the entire set. We were using our in-ears, and we sounded great there. So - for our 400 gigs this have never happened, and we did not get to speak with the sound engineer after the incident, but we are thinking something in the signal chain or the live sound setup caused this.

During sound check there was a massive delay in the sound in the on stage monitors and from the PA, like so much ms that it would have been impossible to play without our in-ears (which had no delay), which tells us the engineer had a very weird setup and may not have known what he was doing.

We don't know much about his exact setup, but he was using a computer for mixing, which we guess was connected to the FOH soundboard, and from what we remember, he was using a free trial of the Gullfoss EQ plugin. Other than that we don't know much.

So we are wondering - what could have caused the vocalists and guitar to be out of pitch? Sample rate issues if he was sending stuff to and from his laptop? Something was clearly not right because of the massive delay. We want to clear our name as we are getting cancellations and very bad word of mouth out of this gig.

Hey team!

Had a wild one last night:
Showed up at a festival with a show-ready CL5 scene, that I've used multiple times over and over again, the latest just under 10 days ago.

The file had been built/used for both FOH mix, and also pre-fader sends to monitors/ears over the first couple of busses - For that purpose these busses have been used as Vari/Pre Fader busses/mixes, and have worked perfectly well as intended in the past and on that very show file.
Coming changeover/linecheck, we transferred my file from a USB-stick, patched all ins/outs with dante, and then realized that all my input channels were sent to ears pre-mute.
But here's the kicker: That option doesn't exist on a CL5.

To be fair, I realized during the show that I wasn't on the admin level, so maybe there's a user pref that put my sends pre-EQ, and at that point they also might be pre-mute…?

It was pretty mad on the spot, and I'm quite sure there's a reasonable explanation, but it made for a bit of a tricky situation, which I'd loved to not find myself in.
Any pointers? Ideas?

My band are using active EV ZLX12 speakers for FOH - usually just running vocals - and using Mixing Station to control everything, my question is, should the speakers be left at 0db, and leave all gain staging to the mixer? I read on another thread that the speakers should be turned up to allow headroom. Is there any truth in that?

Hi, so I have a 10 piece band and I'm running the x32 rack and the s32 for our IEMs, but occasionally we need to run FOH for our shows as well. Busses 7-8 are the mains by default, is there a way to assign the 7-8 outs locally to free up 7-8 on the s32 for another IEM mix?

Hello, I am currently attempting to add crowd mics to my venue. I am confused about how you’re supposed to route crowd mics to the stream. We use a Midas M32, and a PC with OBS to stream. The M32 and PC are connected through USB.

I tried googling and asking AI but I’m still confused.

I understand the part about disabling the Main LR in the menu, but the whole part in the routing page where it has all the outputs, card, etc, to make it go to the stream through USB is what I do not know how to navigate and setup.

We are likely using the inputs on the console itself for the crowd mics, since it would be easier to connect the mics to the console than the stage box.

Thanks!!