choosing desk channels

[hounsome]

I use what seems to be the standard rock & roll set up

Kit

Bass

Gtrs

Keys

Vox

Playback

FX

 

if desk has st ch Playback or FX go into them.

 

I also Split Vox Channels if mixing monitors at FOH so I can do outboard and EQ for different things.

 

I have mixed loads of gigs and have been guest eng. and this is how most desks are set out for visiting eng.

 

it has got better now that dig desks are becoming the norm as long as you get your desk plot to the procuction com. they can patch it how you want. I had this on my last tour where each venue has a standard patch and just moved the input patch on the desks to suit us.

 

colin

:)

[Chris_R]

For a church setup where the musicians change weekly I would make sure you dot a few spare channels around the different sections of instruments. For example if you had drums on channels 1-8 add a 'spare' channel at channel 9, that way when a drummer turns up with an extra tom you can patch it in on 9 rather then either having to move everything up, or having drums on 1-8 and the extra tom on 26!

 

HTH,

Chris

[mervaka]

banks and layers on digital desks really help organisation, too. its also really helpful to be able to 'duplicate' channels so that they can appear in more than one bank, but remain synonymous to the same physical channel. this way you can have a layer in a bank of faders dedicated to channels you may need to access quickly.