So tomorrow I gotta learn a D-Show board on the fly in front of 20,000 people

[everybody's x]

Kill me.

Someone tell me it's user friendly? Best thing I have going for me is I have several hours to Soundcheck

 

[amarshism]

Read the manual

 

[everybody's x]

Got one? Avid seems to not have one online

 

[amarshism]

http://www.avid.com/US/products/VENUE-D-Show-System/resources

 

[everybody's x]

Nevermind, found it apparently "software guide" is avid-ese for "user manual"

 

[SymbolicSV]

Is no that hard to use if know how to use a digital board , in my opinion it´s easier to use than a Yamaha PM5D (also the rental company should have somebody to assist you)

 

[Jordon]

Just don't do what a "new" soundguy did to my old band in front of a few thousand people and shut the board off and lose EVERYTHING he had done in soundcheck.

....Zero audio coming through the mains for the entire set. We had no idea, because, ironically, it was one of the best monitor mixes we'd ever had.

 

[Lasse Lammert]

Just don't do what a "new" soundguy did to my old band in front of a few thousand people and shut the board off and lose EVERYTHING he had done in soundcheck.

....Zero audio coming through the mains for the entire set. We had no idea, because, ironically, it was one of the best monitor mixes we'd ever had.

wow, I would have killed him

 

[-Noodles-]

Get the guy with the rental company to set up the board for you, and then do the mix.

Don't be brave or stupid. Ask for help and everyone will have a better set!

Enjoy the experience too.

 

[everybody's x]

Thx guys

 

[ze kink]

Just don't do what a "new" soundguy did to my old band in front of a few thousand people and shut the board off and lose EVERYTHING he had done in soundcheck.

....Zero audio coming through the mains for the entire set. We had no idea, because, ironically, it was one of the best monitor mixes we'd ever had.

Haha, I think this one totally qualifies for a true epic fail.

The Digidesign Venue is probably the most intuitive digital mixing board I've ever done FOH on. Also the only one I've ever managed to crash, just by doing basic mixing the "full scale digital noise into all outputs" or somesuch countdown popup it did almost made me shit my pants. Luckily I managed to boot it in between songs. Ah school, you teach me so many precious things.

 

[Jordon]

wow, I would have killed him

It was a messed up situation, and we felt kind of bad for him. A touring band brought their own FoH console in, and refused to let the venue use their board for us (local opener at the time), and their FoH engineer wouldn't work with him on our mix, so he had a pretty shitty crash-course in how to work one of those consoles.

Our sound check was an hour and a half long.....

 

[everybody's x]

Wow, it was 57,000.
The tech was very cool
\m/

 

[Jordon]

Wow, it was 57,000.
The tech was very cool
m/

Nice!

 

[everybody's x]

Art of dying
Chevelle
Five finger death punch
Volbeat
Black oxygen
Slash
Shinedown
Black stone cherry
Adelita's way
Rev theory
Theory of a dead man
New medicine
Trivium
Cavo

2 stages, 11 hours, 57k ppl. it was fucking crazy

 

[everybody's x]

Volbeat FTW btw
Dudes are awesome

 

[Jordon]

What fest was it? There's a lot of dudes I know that were on that bill.

 

[everybody's x]

Rockfest in Kansas City

 

[Jordon]

Rockfest in Kansas City

Awesome, dude! I've heard that Rockfest is up there in terms of the top rock/hard rock fests. Must be pretty kickass to work a show like that.

 

[everybody's x]

Supposed to be the biggest one-day fest in the country. Thanks dude, it was a lot of fun