you can hear them latch on, but there is no actual indicator. the one thing it does not have that I wish it did was some indication of how many filters it is using. The only active processing was was the auto feedback suppression. I set this to dual independent channel mode, and sent the AUX 1 Monitor feed through one channel and the main feed to the K10 through the other. Even so, if anyone moved off a mic, the back wall just reflected so much sound straight at them that the beginnings of feedback were evident. The Touchmix has some very good EQ options though, and it was possible (surprisingly) to tame most of it. Initially, during soundcheck, the room was ringing like a bell.
Gibb likes to DI his instruments (I had an Orchid dual active DI box set for him), but I wanted to avoid plugging mine in, so I stuck with the stand-mounted SM94 and just worked it really close. One instrument mic, in this case I used my 'old faithful' Shure SM94 - another mic that can work well just about anywhere. Two vocal mics - EV PL80a's, which are a really tight hypercardiod pattern and sound very good even in 'challenging' situations like this. I added a DBX GoRack to that box some months back, and last night it got a real work-out.īasic setup was a single main QSC K10 and I used a QSC K8 as a floor monitor. This is where you need a Plan B and I always carry what I call my "bad room box" which consists of some mics and a few other items that I have found to work really well in dire situations. On top of that, we had our friend Gibb Todd (from the Kerries, Celtic Connections, and who has recorded with Tim O'Brien and Alison Brown, etc) as our special guest, and Gibb does like some on-stage monitoring. Worse, we now jammed right at the end of a room that most closely resembled a concrete tunnel.
It was an acoustic nightmare waiting to happen. and we were faced with literally bare concrete walls on all sided, a marble floor, and hard, low ceiling. Arrived at a gig to find that the contractors who were supposed to have finished renovating and rebuilding the stage area had, in fact, only just started. Have mentioned these before, but last night we hit a real 'situation'.
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