Technical Problems & Organization

[mobius]

I went to the Battle in SF, and was surprised to see a number of rookie mistakes at the show. I am not going to bash here I just want to make a few suggestions to the promoters of this event. I suggest you get a mixer that will accommodate all your contestants not just two, if money is a concern, try a Berhenger mixer. Compress the output of your sub-mixer , so the audio levels don't vary so much. If contestants must use headphone jacks as audio out, have several new spare cables for them to use incase one has gone bad. It would be nice to view the screen of contestant during the battle, not visuals. It would have been a-lot easier to judge the battle if there was a small bit of genre categorizing of artist, you know , Noise Vs Noise, and Beats Vs Beats. I would be happy to help in any way I can.

[mutor]

No fucking way on the Behringer mixer. Those things sound like shit.

Same levels, same mixer, either 1/8" stereo or 1/4" pair and that's it. Maybe give the artist access to the gain knob if they need to add or subtract a little juice.

[russarteaga]

I agree NO crappy cheapo mixer. Get a Mackie LM-3204 with sixteen 1/4" stereo inputs (used for @300-400). I have one and have been using it for years and it is built like a tank and sounds like a mackie. And most definitely use a limiter on the submixer. Also, because the mackie can be used as a 4 buss mixer you can monitor levels before you send them to the main PA.