Photovor
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Hi All- I'm really torn with how to temporarily relocate our sound booth for an evening drama/performance at my church. We have a presonus StudioLive 24.4.2, with firewire (it's not an AI, so no network). Our current sound room is in a bad location, and we are planning on relocating to a set of risers in the sanctuary to better monitor and mix the performance. We'll be about 40' away from the original booth.
We really only need to be able to do some small adjustments and mute/unmute the board and play some music through itunes. Probably only looking to control up to 8 channels. The mac mini that we have is connected to the soundboard via firewire, and we've used Universal Control on it before to make adjustments on the soundboard that way.
I was originally thinking about relocating the monitors, keyboard and mouse to the remote location. HDMI is easy to get over that distance, and USB wouldn't be a challenge either. Only problem is that we rely on using the board through the remove control software only, and I wondering about a stability issue, and that we're just limited to a mouse, not like hands on an actual sound board. This would be really easy to move, but the tradeoff is usability.
The second option would be to put in a 8 channel snake to go from the soundbooth to our temporary location. The temporary snake would basically go from the snake that already comes into the soundbooth, and we'd just disconnect the soundboard and mac mini (for itunes) and put them in the temporary location. So we'd have 8 channels running to the temp location from the soundbooth and then use the TRS jacks on the snake to run our main mix and monitor mix back to the soundbooth to the amps.
How would you guys go about doing it? Can't run a temp snake right to the original pickup points from the permanent snake, as it'd be a trip hazard. Sound amps are in the sound room.
We really only need to be able to do some small adjustments and mute/unmute the board and play some music through itunes. Probably only looking to control up to 8 channels. The mac mini that we have is connected to the soundboard via firewire, and we've used Universal Control on it before to make adjustments on the soundboard that way.
I was originally thinking about relocating the monitors, keyboard and mouse to the remote location. HDMI is easy to get over that distance, and USB wouldn't be a challenge either. Only problem is that we rely on using the board through the remove control software only, and I wondering about a stability issue, and that we're just limited to a mouse, not like hands on an actual sound board. This would be really easy to move, but the tradeoff is usability.
The second option would be to put in a 8 channel snake to go from the soundbooth to our temporary location. The temporary snake would basically go from the snake that already comes into the soundbooth, and we'd just disconnect the soundboard and mac mini (for itunes) and put them in the temporary location. So we'd have 8 channels running to the temp location from the soundbooth and then use the TRS jacks on the snake to run our main mix and monitor mix back to the soundbooth to the amps.
How would you guys go about doing it? Can't run a temp snake right to the original pickup points from the permanent snake, as it'd be a trip hazard. Sound amps are in the sound room.