Hey fellow RUKINDers! I was wondering how many of you are running your own sound at gigs and if anyone out there is using one of the mobile app/software based mixers like the Mackie, Presonus, Behringer, or Soundcraft mixers. We have been using my almost 15 year-old Yamaha digital mixer but it is showing its age and I wanted to get something new before we had a catastrophic failure at a gig. I got the Soundcraft Ui24R, I looked at a bunch of others and the quality/price/# of channels seemed about right. Not too much of a learning curve. Our rhythm guitarist/vocalist does our mixing since she's the most particular and a bit OCD. My theory is, whoever will bitch the most can run sound. I do sound for my bluegrass band since they are mostly technologically challenged. We do a soundcheck/first song without her and she mixes things as good as she can get and tries to use meter levels to add her vocals and guitar in.
Anyway, how many of you folks are running your own sound? What are you using? How do you manage running sound from the stage? I'd be interested in how you all approach it.
Anyway, how many of you folks are running your own sound? What are you using? How do you manage running sound from the stage? I'd be interested in how you all approach it.