My smaller room is that sized.... and I see a few hundred riders a year. We have an M32 in there and everyone loves it, monitors from
FOH. Everyone has a show file for it. Its as
rider friendly as it gets for a sprinter style show. Our larger room (1,000cap) has Pro2's at
FOH and monitors.
Here is the thing too...
rider friendly isn't as much as a thing now as it was even 5 years ago. Anyone who really cares is carrying a
desk. We see M32 cores in pretty regularly, especially for ears rigs. Your
house engineer mixing on it the most or
road co? What kind of shows? You have a
monitor engineer or usually drive from
FOH? What is the rest of the PA? Are you locked into the under 5k price
point? Are you more of a fly date
venue or something special like that?
Few
rider notes on the few that are
house desks or don't just specify "something that works/specific sized
desk" from the last few months....
Cover Band playing the Casino
circuit....
•
FOH Console
A professional digital mixing board, in perfect working condition, with a minimum of 32 dedicated inputs and (4) effects processors is required. Preferred mixing consoles are
Yamaha CL5, Midas M32,
Yamaha QL5 or M7, Avid
Profile, SC48.
Any substitutions MUST be discussed and agreed to before the show. No side stage or iPad mixing.
Acapella act... (We were just racks and stacks this date)
FOR FLY DATE SHOWS WHERE WE PROVIDE NO PRODUCTION
PURCHASER agrees to provide a first class professional PA
system to specs listed above.
Acceptable Consoles (If tour is not carrying per
advance):
FOH - Digico SD9 or SD12
MON - Midas M32 or Behringer X32
Must provide Digico
stage rack, analog split and
snake
**All other consoles must be approved by Home Free Production Management
For what its worth, I really had to dig to find both of those. Most shows anymore we are either doing racks and stacks or no one give a crap because its on our
house engineer.
I'd seriously just get whatever YOU want to mix on. Everyone else will deal. I can count on one
hand the number of times I've had to rent an alternative
desk in the last 10 years.