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My first real gig with the DL1608
CyberHippy:
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--- Quote from: CyberHippy on August 18, 2014, 03:07:31 PM ---Fun! Here's my gig on Sunday: http://imgur.com/a/zhGjm
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I'd highly recommend getting sand bags for your speaker stands. They greatly reduce the chance of them falling if someone trips on them or when using them outdoors under windy conditions. I also use reflective tape on the legs in a candy stripe pattern to make them more visible. Lastly, Consider getting some sub-snakes with returns to connect to the mixer to clean up the cabling from mics and to the powered monitors. It also speeds up setup and teardown when you're not having to home run a bunch of cables to and from the mix. Short runs to the snake heads instead.
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Those are some heavy-ass speakers (Apogee ACS8 passives - 86lbs) & it was in a well protected area, so no danger. But thanks for the link, I should get some for other situations.
It was a simple setup & I don't own a sub-snake, several of the companies I work for do what you describe at shows but it wasn't worth borrowing one for just this show.
Greg C.:
--- Quote from: Rick Scofield on August 18, 2014, 08:48:05 PM ---Hopefully this little adapter blocks phantom power, because even if you don't use or turn on phantom but you plug into any XLR input, hitting one little switch could very easily burn out the tiny headphone amp inside the iPod/iPhone.
Also good if the 1/8" to XLR doesn't short out the left and right channels.
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The other potential issue is that a standard mini TRS to XLR is usually wired tip to pin 2, ring to pin 3, and sleeve to pin 1. Doing it that way would mean the polarity of the right channel is being flipped in the preamp and then summed with the left causing cancellation of any signal common of both left & right of the playback device. So knowing how the adapter/cable is wired is pretty important to get proper playback. I understand now that some of these adapters are purpose built for this and do actually sum left and right from the headphone output properly with a resistor network which of course won't have that issue. But I've seen several folks who don't know better use the wrong adapter and don't know why it doesn't sound right.
Rdmitch:
Have never had an issue with the adaptor, or even splitting the signal to 2 channels if board space permits..
Is this different on the DL from any other mixer since I have done this on my yamaha analog board and my old Carvin board?
I sure would not want to damage either the board of the iPod.
I don't currently use condensers but may want to use them for drum OH's at some time.
Greg C.:
--- Quote from: Rdmitch on August 18, 2014, 09:59:33 PM ---Have never had an issue with the adaptor, or even splitting the signal to 2 channels if board space permits..
Is this different on the DL from any other mixer since I have done this on my yamaha analog board and my old Carvin board?
I sure would not want to damage either the board of the iPod.
I don't currently use condensers but may want to use them for drum OH's at some time.
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The behavior of differential balanced mic input mixers is the same as far as how signals are treated, so you'd expect the same behavior on all mixers. I did a demo video on a small Mackie mixer a while back of what happens with a balanced line input when you plug both channels of an iPod/iPhone. The same would apply to a balanced mic input: http://youtu.be/-tt7eMddpVo
Rdmitch:
Wow, that is really bizarre, I never encountered that before. Whenever I plug the iPod in it seems to work fine and I can pan both ways hearing everything.
I am going to test this out again tomorrow, trying the XLR adaptor and putting a 1000 hz signal in like you did.I will also try using 2 separate channels.
Thanks for the info, very insightful !
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