FIRST LIVE MIX!!!

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Typo Szar
Member Since: Jul 04, 2002

this friday is gonna be my first full scale live mix in my school auditorium. They got 100's of different mics and a 32 channel mixer with a giant PA. Does anyone have and tips and tricks they'd like to share to me??

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Czar of Midi
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Since: Apr 04, 2002


Aug 19, 2002 10:03 pm

What exactly are you mixing?

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Since: Apr 03, 2002


Aug 20, 2002 05:39 am

What kind of mics? What will you be mixing? And most importantly, do they have any other gear such as reverb units, compressors, limiters, EQ's? Is this a permanent PA installation? If so I am guessing the room is already rung out so one of the EQ's is probably unusable because of that.

Typo Szar
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Since: Jul 04, 2002


Aug 20, 2002 09:10 am

Basically, they got shure sm 58's for vocals, and 2 wireless shure mics. They have really old brandless bass mic that they stick in the bass drum and some shure sm 57's. its a big Pa, built in to the walls, the room is a gym, but its also an auditorium so yeah the acoustics are pretty tight... i guess. Its basically gonna be a rock show, with heavy hardcore kind of vibe. I wanna mix it out with heavy intense bass, maybe if u've ever been to a hoobustank concert? I think theres only a reverb effect available. I just kind of want a primer i guess, some general info on preparing stuff, and what i should consider when mixing it out. general stuff...
thanx a bunch!

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Since: Apr 03, 2002


Aug 20, 2002 09:20 am

Sounds like you are lacking some outboard gear. The mics are fine, the reverb you can set as a general, light touch of reverb (if you need/want to) and run it as an aux loop and pump as many channels through it as you need to.

It will be very tough to get a good heavy bass sound without having a compressor so you can still maintain some amount of control over it as well.

I would find a stereo compressor and bring it to use one side for the vocal compression, which will be NEEDED for any heavy music as the vocals are usually quite strong and often just screaming, and run the other side as compression for you kick, snare, bass, etc.

It is usually nice to have seperate compressors for those, but given your situation, you need to make do and set the compressor for the best overall effect, rather than fine tuning one for each instrument.

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