Bob L
03-30-2008, 08:41 PM
I gave SAC its first in the field use today at the church here that SAWStudio has been mixing live for the past 7-8 months.
Replaced SAWStudio with SAC and duplicated the setup of 9 monitor mixes back to stage. SAC did it comfortable on 7 Monitor mixers with the drum monitor mixer feeding 3 stereo master outs to the drummers small physical submixer... he still likes control of the intruments, vocals and drums separately... soon we will give him his own computer for remote mixing directly of his own SAC Monitor mixer.
The overall load seemed almost identical to the engine load of SAWStudio... so the trade-off of internal latency engine overhead in SAWStudio and the extra monitor mixer feeds in SAC seemed pretty even... I was happy about that.
Ran 3 x 64 and there were no latency complaints at all, even for the singers using in-ears.
Everything went very well, with comments about the overall FOH and monitor mixes sounding fuller and richer. This was probably due to my ability to solo and listen easily to each monitor mix in my V6 headphones while making adjustments and creating stereo space in each mix around the "more me in the center" concept for each of the musicians... placed them up in the center and spread the rest of the band around them to a degree, opening space for more clarity and fullness without clogging the mix.
I ran into one solo bus glitch that threw the solos out of sync in my headphones... that was fixed by a quick toggle of the engine during a silent spot at the end of the song.
There was also one reported incident of a slight latency slip during the whole 1 1/2 hour performance, which again was fixed with a toggle of the engine.
All in all things went great for a first run... I am focusing on the latency slips and will definitely find a way to lock that down.
SAC is here for real!!!!
Bob L
Replaced SAWStudio with SAC and duplicated the setup of 9 monitor mixes back to stage. SAC did it comfortable on 7 Monitor mixers with the drum monitor mixer feeding 3 stereo master outs to the drummers small physical submixer... he still likes control of the intruments, vocals and drums separately... soon we will give him his own computer for remote mixing directly of his own SAC Monitor mixer.
The overall load seemed almost identical to the engine load of SAWStudio... so the trade-off of internal latency engine overhead in SAWStudio and the extra monitor mixer feeds in SAC seemed pretty even... I was happy about that.
Ran 3 x 64 and there were no latency complaints at all, even for the singers using in-ears.
Everything went very well, with comments about the overall FOH and monitor mixes sounding fuller and richer. This was probably due to my ability to solo and listen easily to each monitor mix in my V6 headphones while making adjustments and creating stereo space in each mix around the "more me in the center" concept for each of the musicians... placed them up in the center and spread the rest of the band around them to a degree, opening space for more clarity and fullness without clogging the mix.
I ran into one solo bus glitch that threw the solos out of sync in my headphones... that was fixed by a quick toggle of the engine during a silent spot at the end of the song.
There was also one reported incident of a slight latency slip during the whole 1 1/2 hour performance, which again was fixed with a toggle of the engine.
All in all things went great for a first run... I am focusing on the latency slips and will definitely find a way to lock that down.
SAC is here for real!!!!
Bob L