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Lately I’ve been looking for a specific type of mic mixer but cannot find it. I want a rack mount mic mixer with around 6-8 inputs that has gain and panning knobs for each channel with a stereo output. I see a lot of pieces like this that only have gain and no panning control. There’s a Behringer eurorack line mixer that has both controls but as the name implies, it’s for line level signals and is not a mic preamp. Anyone know of this?

I record my band's sets when we play and I've wanted to start incorporating an "audience mic" into the mix to give the mixes some more depth and that live feel. I'm assuming I should use a stereo pair of condensers roughly pointed at each side of the PA. Is there a better way to do it?

If I had around $5.5k, what speakers, subs, and amps, should I get for my band? I already have a mixer and floor monitors. We’d be playing medium sized indoor venues and small outdoor shows like local festivals. Maybe around 200 people.

Does anyone have any tips for my band? We are looking to get PA speakers, monitors, and subs for our live gigs. Typically in front of 30-50 people but we hope to book larger gigs in the future. I already have a mixer, so we're just looking for two PA speakers, at least one sub, amplification, and at least two monitors. I don't mind cheaping out on the monitors.

Anyone have any recs for buying new or general guidelines for looking at used gear?

I recorded a whole concert that I played and have it ready to mix down. After I run my mixdown, I would really like to be able to export multiple stereo mixes but only for certain sections of the main mix so that I have an exported L/R mix for each song from the show and omit the set break we took and other time between songs.

I am aware that the easiest thing would be to open the .wav file of the whole show in a DAW and just break it up from there, but I don't have one. I'd really rather be able to just save my songs as their own files than download Audacity or something and keep working on there.

Yesterday, I played a show and I wanted to use my Model 16 to set the live mix in the PA, send a signal to our stage monitors, and record the show with the ability to adjust the whole mix later. Our PA was mono so I panned everything right and sent the right Main Output to our PA amp. Then I plugged the monitor 1 out into our stage monitor amp and adjusted the mon 1 send levels during sound check. I applied some small hall reverb to the vocal tracks and sent that both to the main bus and the monitor 1 bus. I did a quick test recording with everyone playing and everything came out of the main PA when I hit playback, so I know I had recorded it correctly. I undid this recording before recording our actual show.

Given all of this, should I be able to go back, adjust things in the mix like track volume, compression, FX levels, EQ, apply different FX to some tracks, and then be able to export the show into a single L/R mix audio track?

My main concern is that in the manual, it says that the Main L/R bus is always on recording standby, and anything coming through that bus will be recorded. Does this mean that the whole right channel of that bus, which was being sent out to the PA system, also got recorded, with everything panned right and the compression/EQ/FX already burned into that recording?

I collect vintage equipment to fix and sometimes I sell the restored equipment, sometimes I just use them. I usually try to target not-so-well-known equipment that is actually very high end. For example, my Nakamichi CA5/PA5 combo. The PA5 supposed to be designed by Nelson Pass, incorporating the Stasis design. There are some arguments as to whether he actually designed it, but I can tell you, it is a beautiful machine with very high quality parts and a great sound.

I have generally avoided the McIntosh amps because they are so much in demand, it is hard to find value--especially for fixing them. Same for Accuphase, although I would love to get my hands on one.

Anyway, I happened to find a MC2150 for a reasonable price and I couldn't pass it up. I did an initial round of rehab and then hooked it up. My first impressions were that the bass seemed a bit boomy and the treble range was "soft" and missing some sparkle. I guess this is the warm McIntosh house sound. It seemed even warmer than my 300B tube amp. But, I let it play and the more I heard, the more I was drawn to the sound. There is a kind of atmosphere that is hard to describe. In fact, I can't bring myself to switch back to my other amps. So, there seems to be a kind of narcotic quality to McIntosh sound and I can see what people are raving about. Well, I think I see a few caps in the signal path that I am hoping if I recap them, there will be more high-end air too. I think this is going to be a keeper.