What's your dream FOH

[jammers]

Forgot to add my Behringer Ultrabass Pro, I love it!!

 

[Inaki2]

The iTech blowing is certainly weird, I have used them a lot and they've become one of my favorites along with lab.gruppen and Camco.
As fo rthe HiQ Net, as most softwares its in its childhood and many of the bugs will be worked out as the time goes by. Especially in this industry where replicating what we put the equipment through is hard.
Crown has a great service and an amazing R&D department, I doubt they'll fail to identify the problems with your amps and solve any issues. After all, you may have just gotten 2 from a bad batch of transistors and nothing more.

 

[TassieBogan]

im not a big sound guy but i would love to have a midas

We have one ATM for our college production but it's the 40 channel version.

Our ideal would be : Consoles - Midas XL4
Midas XL250

Processing - Klark Teknik DN9340 and 9344 Helix EQ's
Klark Teknik DN9848 Speaker Processors
DBX 266XL compressor\gate

Amplification - Crest pro9200 6500w amps

Speakers - (presuming you wouldn't have to fit them in our theatre) EV X-Array

If they did have to fit - Dynacord Cobra Line Array

 

[Hughesie]

Simple

Midas XL4

(and that's me)

 

[JasonH]

(12+)Shure SLX Wireless Mics

Why SLX? why not ulx?

 

[JasonH]

For my former highschool I would get:

FOH Console:
Midas Venice 32ch or Two 01v's linked

Centre Cluster:
Meyer Sound M1D Ultra-Compact Curvilinear Array, x 8 two sets of 4
http://meyersound.com/mseries/m1d/index.htm

Left/Right FOH:
UPA-1P : Compact Wide Coverage Loudspeaker, One per side
http://meyersound.com/products/ultraseries/upa-1p/index.htm

Sub:
Meyer Sound M2d Subs, one would probably be enough.
http://meyersound.com/mseries/m2d-sub/index.htm

Wedges:
Meyer Sound UM-100p Wide Coverage Stage Monitor
http://meyersound.com/products/ultraseries/um-100p/index.htm

EQ:
Klark Teknik Helix
http://www.klarkteknik.com/dn9340.htm

Wireless:
Shure UHF, 20 units, 20 beltpacks, 5 sm58's, 5 beta 58's, 5 beta 87's, 5 guitar cords.

CD Player:
Marantz

As for the rest of my foh rack. I'd want to play around to decide what I want.

 

[Soundguybs]

Yamaha PM7D thats it for front of house (maybe some Vocie FX but thats it) THe board will do anything else i would want.

 

[koncept]

For my 2nd old high school, a mackie 48 8 8 insttead of the two 16's we have that arent linked correctly (not "linkable")

add a center cluster and 2 mid clusters on each side
jbl speakers

1 dbx driver rack 480
1 alesis midiverb4
2 itech amps

for the college im at, digidesign venue with dual stage racks, itech amps, jbl speaker
2 dbx driver rack 480's
the rest of the processing can be done in the console

 

[Christopher]

Hmm hi guys, just signed up today.
My absoloute ideal setup would be something like:

Two Digico D5's linked for FOH and Monitors, or a PM5D
Meyer M3D/vDosc array.
Crown MA5000's or some nice QSC
Yamaha SPX2000
TC M2000

General mic list:
Drums: C414's, e904's, SM57, AE3000, e901/beta 91 (you can probably guess whats used where)

Vox: e935/Beta58/Beta87/KMS105.
Bass: Active DI
Guitar: e906/Beta57


I've got a fairly long list of this kind of thing, if anyone's interested just give me a shout

 

[avkid]

the two 16's we have that arent linked correctly (not "linkable")

What do you mean by non-linkable?

 

[koncept]

like there are several consolse available that sell a proprietary link cable so that the say second board of 16 becomse 17-32 and goes out of board ones main outs with out using any of the other ins/outs on the board
http://www.allen-heath.com/veterans/downloads/gl2_syslink_apps.pdf -page two in that is what i am talking about

are linked by going straight to the amp from each board i think. ideal i would like somethink like the allen & heath solution, but if not using a stereo in on one of the boards would be better...

 

[avkid]

Why not connect the main outs of each to a small mixer with two stereo channels? The right outputs on one channel and the left outputs on the other.

 

[Foxinabox10]

You can do this avkid, but it is not ideal, as you have more places for the audio to clip and mute groups, etc. would not work between the two boards.

 

[koncept]

simply because we dont have the money. I wish we did, it would be much easier. - idealy a dj mixer and use that for the two boards and a pa in only that way they dont need to use two separate systems as we do now.

 

[avkid]

You can do this avkid, but it is not ideal, as you have more places for the audio to clip and mute groups, etc. would not work between the two boards.

This is a cheap, viable solution for the cash strapped individual or business.

 

[herr_highbrau]

My Ideal System

This is for a mega mega concert!

Mixer:
Midas XL4 - Oh yeah!
Possibly a Series 5 for a smaller concert
2x Venice 320s for the Support Band

FOH Rack:
Klark Technic Processing
XTA Processing
Lexicon/Yamaha FX
That nice Denon DJ CD Player!

Mics:
Shure UHF Radios
Shure Wired Mics
(Lots of both the above)

Amps:
D&B D12s. At least 40,000 watts worth!
Rope C Control

FOH Speakers:
Q and C Series from D&B. Lots of them

Misc:
A 19" Rack Mountable Mini Fridge capable of storing lots of 2l Bottles of Irn Bru
A Slightly elevated mix position. I'm sometimes too short to see over the crowds

And lots of very experienced crew! That would just be great

 

[sound_nerd]

Console: Midas Legend 3000

Processing: DBX (driverack 480, compressors/limiters/gates) TC Electronics, and Yamaha

Mics: Shure, AKG, Sennheiser (evo wireless)

Amps: Crown MacroTech

Speakers for ground stack shows: Transparence HD215 tops, NAC218 subs

Speakers for flown shows: DAS line array (powered)

 

[soundlight]

10/07/08 - My list got updated. See next page.

However, to humor those of you who want something funny, here's my old list, before I'd ever mixed on anything above a 16-channel soundcraft:

Console: Midas Legend 3000 or Soundcraft MH4 (& Midas XL88 matrix with either)
Processing: DBX Driverack 480's w/480R remote (31 flying faders), DBX 1066's, Presonus ACP 88's, KT DN370 EQ's and half a dozen Lexicon MPX-110's
Amps: Crown I-Tech
Speakers: JBL VT4889 Vertec Line Array w/VT4880 subs & SRX 712M's for monitors
Mics:
-Drums: Shure SM-94's, SM-57, Audix D6, Beyerdynamic clip-on tom mics
-Wireless: Shure UHF-R Wireless (vox & guitar/bass)
-Instruments: Audix I-5's, Shure Beta-57's and Beta 98's
-Vox: Audix OM-7's and VX-10's
DI: Countryman Type 85 DI boxes
Stands: K&M
Snake: Roland RSS Digital Snake
Cables: Rapco Road Hog cloth-covered cables
Media playback:
-Tascam 322 cassette deck
-Tascam MD-350 minidisc player/recorder
-Tascam CD-A630 3CD/Single cassette
-Tascam CD-01U PRO CD player
-Tascam TU-690 FM Tuner
Misc:
-TTKP Golden Eagle tool kit (to repair anything & everything)
-Rack w/KVM drawers, computer, TV, Fridge, & a fold-out table on the side of it
-Comfortable, high stools (with wheels)
-Beyerdynamic headphones
-Littlite console lights & flexible littlite racklights for all racks
-Midas easytilt
-One heck of a crew
That officially took too long.
I went to every single manufacturer website in my sound bookmarks folder to doublecheck that list.

 

[BNBSound]

Mix:
Allen & Heath ML-5000

Drive:
Rane Dual 31 band graph
Pair of Distressor comps
DriveRack 260

Outboard:
TC M-One
Rev 500
SPX-90 (Just for a chuckle)
Presonus ACP-88 comps (Utility)
Distressor (Lead Vox)
JoeMeek (Kick)
DBX 166x (Kick)
DBX 215 Graphs (Vox)

Racks:
QSC Powerlights

Stacks:
EAW LA's

 

[avkid]

Shure UHF-R Wireless mics definitely.