Hey guys I have several questions that I hope you can help me with.
I am the technical director at my high school and we just got a whole brand new facility:
We are running a Yamaha MG32/14FX board through 4 EV SxA250's which you can see in the picture if you look on the left.
Now that we just finished our fall production we got some money to spend on goodies. Now there a couple things that I wanted to ask you guys about. The teacher wants to make a "Studio" where people can come and record their music. What I was thinking is just having everything set up on the stage and then have a pair of these at the console
KRK Rokit Powered 5 Generation 2 and more Studio Monitors at GuitarCenter.com.
for mixing and previewing sounds/music etc. by use of the Group 1-2 bus which you can do right?
Now the next thing is the way our booth is setup it is very hard to hear the actors/performers so we have a "booth monitor" this consists of a wireless vocal microphone (Yes I know its ghetto) hooked up to a 200watt Yamaha powered mixer attached to a big ugly piece of trash Gemini Speaker. Now this kind of _works_ but I'd like to get a more efficient system going. I was thinking I could run the wireless microphone into the board and have it set to the Aux 1 and 2 buses with the pre function selected so it won't go the main feed. Then have like a pair of computer speakers at the light board where the person running the lights can adjust the sound to their needs and the person at the sound board with those speakers i linked to can adjust the volume for themselves. Would there be enough power to give a pair of cheap computer speakers enough signal to be useful as a booth monitor? I know its kind of something I need to try but I am open to suggestions on changing this. I know they make better microphones for long range pickup but I dont know what would be a good one to get and how much it would run.
The next thing is those EV's are lovely but they are XLR connect only. With us living in the 21st digital age people dont know how to operate anything but an ipod and unfortunately unless I get like 5 adapters and stick them into each other then there is no way to get an Ipod to those speakers. What I was thinking is maybe getting a cheap mixer like this:
Amazon.com: Behringer 802 8-Input Mixer: Musical Instruments
Then get a couple of 1/4" to XLR adapters so that can hook up to those speakers and you got a quick little stereo thing going if you need to hookup 2 microphones and a guitar or something and an ipod
Is that a good way to do it and more importantly will it work?
Thanks in advance
I am the technical director at my high school and we just got a whole brand new facility:
We are running a Yamaha MG32/14FX board through 4 EV SxA250's which you can see in the picture if you look on the left.
Now that we just finished our fall production we got some money to spend on goodies. Now there a couple things that I wanted to ask you guys about. The teacher wants to make a "Studio" where people can come and record their music. What I was thinking is just having everything set up on the stage and then have a pair of these at the console
KRK Rokit Powered 5 Generation 2 and more Studio Monitors at GuitarCenter.com.
for mixing and previewing sounds/music etc. by use of the Group 1-2 bus which you can do right?
Now the next thing is the way our booth is setup it is very hard to hear the actors/performers so we have a "booth monitor" this consists of a wireless vocal microphone (Yes I know its ghetto) hooked up to a 200watt Yamaha powered mixer attached to a big ugly piece of trash Gemini Speaker. Now this kind of _works_ but I'd like to get a more efficient system going. I was thinking I could run the wireless microphone into the board and have it set to the Aux 1 and 2 buses with the pre function selected so it won't go the main feed. Then have like a pair of computer speakers at the light board where the person running the lights can adjust the sound to their needs and the person at the sound board with those speakers i linked to can adjust the volume for themselves. Would there be enough power to give a pair of cheap computer speakers enough signal to be useful as a booth monitor? I know its kind of something I need to try but I am open to suggestions on changing this. I know they make better microphones for long range pickup but I dont know what would be a good one to get and how much it would run.
The next thing is those EV's are lovely but they are XLR connect only. With us living in the 21st digital age people dont know how to operate anything but an ipod and unfortunately unless I get like 5 adapters and stick them into each other then there is no way to get an Ipod to those speakers. What I was thinking is maybe getting a cheap mixer like this:
Amazon.com: Behringer 802 8-Input Mixer: Musical Instruments
Then get a couple of 1/4" to XLR adapters so that can hook up to those speakers and you got a quick little stereo thing going if you need to hookup 2 microphones and a guitar or something and an ipod
Is that a good way to do it and more importantly will it work?
Thanks in advance