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Originally Posted by
Richard Crowley
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Am I the only one here who DETESTS trying to mix 32 channels with 16 faders? Doing button-selected, one-at-a-time channel adjustments is one thing, but actually MIXING more than 16 channels with only 16 faders seems EXACTLY like operating with one hand tied behind your back!
Try it with just 8 faders ! I'm talking about recording mixdown, not live, but the problems are similar....suddenly you're wrangling 3 or 4 or more banks of 8 (or 16) !
If you can create folders or subgroups of instruments/voices it can be suddenly rendered a lot easier...you can have, say vocals (back ground), guitars, keys, individual drum mics, all as single group faders...and able to unfold each group for individual tweaks as you go. So, for most of the show you're using just 4 or 5 faders of groups..plus perhaps another dedicated to the lead vocal(s)
My problem has been convincing the hardware to recognize just these groups..and not all of the underlying inputs....that seems to be the hard part. You'd want to be able to selectively direct the mixer to consider the underlying tracks when tweaking's required, but ignore them otherwise (and just leave you with those 4 or 5 or so groups).