Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:05 pm
BTW Jonny Sun,
I had a special mixer made for my production show where the 5 singers used Sennheiser wireless mics, and UE Pro 10 wireless in your ear monitors. The mixer was a model in excellence, as I have used DAS products, and speak from experience. Since Olive uses Scope DSP for live use , as do I. I felt he would be a great designer of this special mixer, and he was. The cost of a crew using a DSP platform versus hardware was 1000 USD in savings weekly, the time it takes to set up and perform was cut by 35 minutes, the fidelity of this sub mixed to the house was incredible, so I tend to side w/ a performer when I have needs of a special nature. Many people used and wanted such a mixer, but our platform is a niche group, and I am grateful for it's little known secrets, DAS being one of them. This mixer was based on a Crest Audio XRM, which was several thousand dollars more than the DAS FOH / Monitor Series. It's the Cadillac of Vocal mixers, and with the EQ's and effects, I preferred it over the hardware counterpart.
And yes, several DAS plugs can be used across the channel inserts as well as the Master out and AUX's also. I still prefer hardware reverbs as I have been spoiled by Lexicons for over 20 years. But many people here praise the RMX160. Below you can see the rare glimpse fo this incredible custom device.
Even though the color scheme seems a bit on the dark side, it was designed to illuminate under 1000's and 1000's of watts of lights, and be easily readable from a distance of a few meters, as the lights were also MIDI controlled by the FOH engineer, who misses this mixer. He now is setting up large stages again, and also took a slight cut in pay to be in Nashville.
Olive worked feverishly on this until we got it perfect. He even upgraded it for free with a talk back feature where the mains could be muted. This turned out to be a major nightmare for the FOH man, as the 5 girls could make further demands in between songs for this and that w/o being heard by the audience. Eventually he claimed it stopped working, but that was his secret. I agreed, as when I would visit, I became very tense listening to 5 cackling hens at one time. They were so annoying, but quite lovely.
I had a special mixer made for my production show where the 5 singers used Sennheiser wireless mics, and UE Pro 10 wireless in your ear monitors. The mixer was a model in excellence, as I have used DAS products, and speak from experience. Since Olive uses Scope DSP for live use , as do I. I felt he would be a great designer of this special mixer, and he was. The cost of a crew using a DSP platform versus hardware was 1000 USD in savings weekly, the time it takes to set up and perform was cut by 35 minutes, the fidelity of this sub mixed to the house was incredible, so I tend to side w/ a performer when I have needs of a special nature. Many people used and wanted such a mixer, but our platform is a niche group, and I am grateful for it's little known secrets, DAS being one of them. This mixer was based on a Crest Audio XRM, which was several thousand dollars more than the DAS FOH / Monitor Series. It's the Cadillac of Vocal mixers, and with the EQ's and effects, I preferred it over the hardware counterpart.
And yes, several DAS plugs can be used across the channel inserts as well as the Master out and AUX's also. I still prefer hardware reverbs as I have been spoiled by Lexicons for over 20 years. But many people here praise the RMX160. Below you can see the rare glimpse fo this incredible custom device.
Even though the color scheme seems a bit on the dark side, it was designed to illuminate under 1000's and 1000's of watts of lights, and be easily readable from a distance of a few meters, as the lights were also MIDI controlled by the FOH engineer, who misses this mixer. He now is setting up large stages again, and also took a slight cut in pay to be in Nashville.
Olive worked feverishly on this until we got it perfect. He even upgraded it for free with a talk back feature where the mains could be muted. This turned out to be a major nightmare for the FOH man, as the 5 girls could make further demands in between songs for this and that w/o being heard by the audience. Eventually he claimed it stopped working, but that was his secret. I agreed, as when I would visit, I became very tense listening to 5 cackling hens at one time. They were so annoying, but quite lovely.
