adamburgess

Just keep doing as you're asked and if you need anything, ask. I'm a (competent) enthusiastic amateur sound and light lad - and been involved in several pro shows in my time, but been a professional musician all my life. I study different protocols, mixing desk OSes, latest tech, etc. when I can. Places like this site have saved me more than once - and, the correct terminology does help asking the correct question. Me, and all the true pros I know enjoy passing on knowledge. It helps everyone on the gig, ultimately. All the best with it. Enjoy - not least the fact that you've a regular gig after the past couple of years!

If it's a pipe organ, depending on the distance from the manuals to the pipes, the sound may end up being in sync with any delayed video!

Thanks, Bruce. Maybe it's worth another quick look after the weekend.

Looks like one microcontroller for everything. There is another chip on a daughterboard which looks like it does the scanning. Had another poke about this morning. Can get a brand new keyboard for £100. Sad but probs easier to break the thing for spare bits - like keys which are always handy. Not really worth anymore time on it, I don't think. And busy with gigs until New Year's, anyway.

Hey everyone.Friend of mine just dropped his Keystation 49 in for me to take a look at. My limited knowledge has me a bit stumped!It has several non-sounding keys. Done the usual cleaning of contacts etc. No change. There's continuity with the lines between the keybed and the processor board.Then realised, it's every 8th key that doesn't work (Bottom C, G#, E etc all the way to the top C) - so guessed a matrix problem.My cheapo meter shows that all the diodes are at least passing current. Shorting certain diodes will trigger MIDI for all those notes - holding them all down at once, it can sometimes stutter a few notes.What's left to try?It's an old cheap thing and having already spent an afternoon on it, I'm at a dead end. Totally rebuilt a Kronos 88 keybed before Christmas which went so easily - but that was all mechanical damage - electronics were fine!Thanks for reading!

I'm living currently in a village community, in Ras al Khaimah, about an hour north of Dubai. They've replaced everything with the worst LEDs. Very dull cold white. There's a street lamp every 6 meters (great, you would think!), and similarly lit bollards on traffic islands etc… Cannot see a thing. There's points of light and no illumination at all 10 feet down. Families around and loads of kids on electric scooters just appear from nowhere. I would say shadows, but there aren't any. The few exceptions are some crazily bright >>> RED LED CHEVRON SIGNS >>> showing you which way around the roundabout to go, and a lovely disco style mini-roundabout warning. They are SO bright, you still can't see anything near ground level, like the road, or in front of you! Like these quality items! Just gimme a big floodlight above the roundabout! https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Aluminum-solar-powered-Informative-warning-roundabout_60479852870.html

Thanks, guys. SD card is cool. Didn't think of that - was just in USB mode looking at my X32. I do like the look of the Presonus. Think that's a goer. Totally unfounded, but I've never ever liked Mackie mixers. The Zoom having one control section with the channel select thing might be confusing. Has to be 'put all the knobs and faders in the middle and record'. Looking at these three desks goes to show how cheap the XR18 and that family is. You get loads for your money!

Hi everyone. I'm looking for a simple analog mixer that 'anyone' can use. Had a call from a friend the other day who does a lot of transcriptions from board meetings and hearings - that sort of thing. He asked me to take a mixer and a few mics to his place for a demo so they understand how recording a meeting would work, and show they can get the audio sent off pretty much instantly. I took my X32 Rack and recorded to a laptop. Topped and tailed the file. Sent him an MP3 on his phone in a minute. Also did a L/R backup on a USB Drive for them, and that's what I'm looking for… Is there a small analogue mixer that I can't see that has both an output to a computer and a local USB out? I've only seen it on an X32 / A&H QU or better… Cheers, Adam

Is it not worth putting an extra amp on the kit list to hire before the gig? Then at least you can test things (to make sure noise comes out) with anything you have lying around?

I have both the Shure 215s and some JH Audio custom IEMs. The Shures are fine, but not as 'immersive(?)' as the JH ones. Get some really nice bottom end with the customs. Sitting in the pub at the mo doing some transcriptions with the Shures. The customs are more delicate, for sure, so they only come out for proper gigs. I've got a Sennheiser G3 TX, a little stereo Behringer beltpack, and over here in the UAE, the sound co's usually carry the Shure systems. All are fine with both sets.

It's hard to quantify, but, my X32 rack seems to be like this! Mine is the more 'brown' one - bought in around 2015?

Done many many gigs with an XR18. I have two now. Also have an X32 rack at home. I’ve controlled them WiFi on an iPad, wired/wireless on a laptop, a repurposed guitar pedal with an Arduino inside, a Korg Kronos keyboard, QLab…. Never let me down and sounds fine for the stuff I’m doing. I never had much luck with the built in WiFi, though. I find it really laggy and unstable.

Feel the pause... (≈3sec)

Even with limited rehearsals, a diligently put together show file (as you're doing) will be no problem to anyone with any experience. Most sound/light ops I've ever worked with… they do do feel :-) I've written stuff before, and I get it's tough to hand things over to someone else. I dare bet it'll be fine.

I'd prefer the first one. If I'm watching the action and hitting a GO button, I'd rather know it had fired than have to look away to make sure. And, if I'm watching, depending on the pace of the show on the night, it may be slightly more or less than 3 seconds.

Sine you mentioned it, I’ve got an X32 Rack in my home setup. Once it was configured, I haven’t had to touch it much. Admittedly, it’s mainly keyboards plugged into it, via a TRS patchbay with vocals now and then thru a few dedicated XLR lines.. If all EQ and stuff is in the box, it’s cheap and sounds good enough for me. Gain/trim and routing is easy enough with the app on the Mac or iPad. Four outputs are sent to a headphone amp from a template in Logic, matrix sends from LR at unity to a sub and monitors. Only thing I really touch is the main volume.

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Big fan of your YouTube channel, Clive. I’ll grab a couple for you next week to take a look at.

Lived and worked in Dubai for the past ten years. More musician than tech, but... quite interesting, nonetheless!

Thanks, guys. The guitar pedalboard supplies don't supply enough current. The keyboard needs 1.7A, hubs and interfaces 2A each. I did come across a 12V, 5A CCTV power supply with a 4 way splitter. Suppose that could do my 12V stuff. The two interfaces say they need 2A each @12V, but a lot of that is probably to charge an iPad, if connected. Don't imagine the hard drives would need anywhere near that. Then I'd still have to find something similar for the 5V @2A hubs blah blah… Doesn't really solve anything. I will have 1U free, so possibly get an IEC output rack and some in-line supplies… No. I hate wiring IEC plugs <_< Sandall, there is room in the back of that 'bay' to screw that current 6-way to the top (underside of the shelf). Just that 2U punched panel and a 1U patchbay to go in there. That's a dead simple, free fix and will keep it out of the way of other cables :) Thanks again. Adam

Hi everyone. Not posted for ages but still pop by now and again! Hope everyone is making the most of this awful time for us. Just moved house and had space for a custom made studio desk, so I had one made. Still a work in progress - waiting for some rack hardware to mount everything properly. Want to keep it neat, so looking for a DC power supply to get rid of a load of wall warts. At the moment I need: 2x 5V for a couple of USB hubs 1x 9V for the Korg keyboard 4x 12V for the MIDI and small Audio interfaces, and a couple of old spinning drives Greatest current requirement is 2A and I guess an extra out for any added bits n bobs wouldn't go amiss. The lamps, X32, and sound module etc are doing great with some 5-way Wago connectors. They're great and thanks to BigClive for alerting me to those a while back. Obviously, cheaper the better as I've just moved and haven't really had a gig since March. Don't mind adapting something to work, maybe get some modules from amazon and box them up? eBay isn't great here. Be grateful to hear any thoughts! Cheers, and greetings from the UAE. Adam

MIDI volume commands generally work per channel so a fader would probably only control everything that’s on channel 10. I currently trying to fashion a custom Arduino controller for my Roland Integra module for similar reasons: if a part/sound is layered on the same channel, a load of SysEx is needed to adjust the part volume, not the channel volume. Doesn’t look like the Alexis has that ability from the manual, although there’s usually a MIDI implementation chart... not here. Suppose you could midi the module out to Mainstage and a multi out audio interface, or use a good synth and split the drums that way? Either way not cheap.

Strangely, our X32 rack is on its third PSU as of last weekend (Grrr) and was fixed in a day here in the UAE. Surprising, considering how long things take and the lack of 'normal' spares here. Surely there's a source in the UK... I've never seen the insides of one. How 'PC' standard is it?