Really dumb question, but I can't seem to find an answer anywhere.
I plan to record an all-day festival on the DR-680. I'm going to run a Schoeps audience pair (V3> S/PDIF > 7&
, which leaves me 6 tracks for everything else. The board may be an X32, but it's unclear. The FOH mentioned several options, including a DB25 out. I'm wanting to have a least a little control over the mix, because I'm not sure I can count on a well-mixed two-channel board feed. There will be lots of stage changes, and I don't want to pester the guy about a 2-track mixdown.
I was thinking about getting a snake. I understand that a DB25 connector is simple solution (short of a CAT5) that avoids a massive snake when you're running 16, 24 or 32 channels. But since I'm just running six (mono) subgroups from the board (e.g., drums, piano, bass, horns, vocals) pre-fader to those outputs, is this more hassle than it's worth? Overkill? It just seemed like using one connector might make things easier.
I'm wondering if there are specific problems or pitfalls with my plan. I'm assuming with a digital board that this is easy? Is there a high chance with this idea that I may just get screwed up outputs? Is requesting subgroups asking too much of the FOH ?