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I was taught how to set up a console a little differently then the way Mac does. I attended a Live Sound school at the University of ? in Anaheim, Ca. It was 7 days 10 hrs a day. Lots of big names there...

In a nut shell when the band is cooking along nothing special happening engineer just standing back listening all faders should be at 0. In other words the basic mix is acquired by placing all faders at 0 and then using the trim controls to acquire the nominal mix. The faders are then used for what they called "specials". Solos, drop someone back, special effects etc. When it was time to go back to normal all faders at 0.With faders at 0 you get maximum throw and still have 26 db of gain available.



Thanks John for this tip!

Maybe this tip can be used when you have a powerful board with all the bells and whistles?
With the 400W mixer that I used for my gig, if I recall correctly, when I did the trim adjust to start, I had the faders set to zero (channel faders and Main fader) and couldn't hear anything.

I needed to put the Main at about 7 or 8 o'clock and the channel fader to about 8 or 9 o'clock before I could adjust the trims.

As for actual performance. With trims set (and they were basically at full, or at the 5' o'clock position, we needed the main vocal channel at about 2 o'clock and the mains were at 9 o'clock.

So we didn't have the luxury of having faders at the 0 position.

Monitors were set to around 12 o'clock by the vocalist for her channel.
She pulled pretty much everything else out of the monitor mix.

BIABguy