Well - the first outing with the O2R...not a complete disaster...but how many complete disasters are there!?!
First - damn glad my boss showed up for this gig! At least its not all my fault!
About 1/2 hour before the show - all is well. Suddenly a huge buzz starts coming through the monitors and mains...loud as hell!
We get that to subside - at the time thinking it was just a bad phantom powered DI box blowing up...
But as the show progresses - we start having this weird tone that would come and go - and seem to accompany the vocals.
It sort sounded like Feedback - but was generating a low tone that was not in the voice.
As long as the band was playing - this wasn't noticeable - and we pretty much pulled the show off...(even got a standing O for the last set!)
But - this was pretty disappointing...
So - later we tried to troubleshoot a bit after the show - dropping our master clock down to 44 (from 48) seemed to help with the false tone.
I think this tone had to be a digital glitch...I've not really heard feedback that is lower than its source tone.
And, we think our wordclock BNC cable might have been too long...(after some research)...
Im also curious if we don't have some mismatch in bit depth between our Presonus rack pre/ADs and the O2R...
On the upside - I did learn a good bit about this mixer. I think I can pull off a soundcheck...still a little slow saving the scenes.
But when it works - it sure sounds a hell of a lot better than the old Mackie...!
We have another show Wednesday...(but I think we're borrowing an LS9 for backup if we cant get this working.)