Hi folks, I'm torn between two schools of thoughts. I was thinking to use Multipressor and ChannelEq (and maybe Limiter) on the output of my PA console (obviously it's a live concert). A friend of mine argues that nobody uses multiband compression on live mixes, only in mastering studios. Maybe he's right but I would like to hear it from more people (experts). It is a higher profile concert event and therefore I am looking at further improving my PA mix sound but also need to ensure reliability. Do you think LP8 can do it and maintain low latencies so that it will not be perceivable? I was planing to set up my LP8 on my MacBook 2.1G (2GB RAM) with SW monitoring on and feed it from and to (in/out) my ESU1808 interface. Does anybody have good or bad experience with such a setup? I don't plan to do any tracking on that machine. There is going to be a separate G5 machine setup for tracking. Any opinion and experience would be highly appreciated. What are your experiences? Thanks in advance GxL

OK, now I have an answer to my own Q. The Multiband compression on a live sound is a bad idea. The main reason is that to make it sound good one needs to set the parameters very carefully which is possible in the studio environment after multiple passes of listening, which is not possible in live productions. An incorrectly set Multiband compressor would make the sound much worse than no compression at all. Another point I heard is that the final mix of FOH should rather not be compressed - if at all maybe limited with limiter but even that should be set very conservatively. So here it is, I thought I'd share my finding here. Thanks

I would really like a video course on Main Stage application of Logic Studio. While it is sold and advertised to be used by musos, I believe the FOH engineers could use it just es well for final stage dynamic processing (as an example) so I believe it would be worthwhile to show how to harness the processing power and capability of this real-time sound/signal processor. The course could be aiming at both groups. ...my 2c... :-)

That is so awesome... Thank you guys, u rock...

Yeah, I'm also very interested in MainStage tutorial and I even suggested it in the "TNT suggestions and ideas" section of this forum. So I hope Martin et el. will decide to do it. That would be awesome. Cheers Gabe

yes please, would be awesome to to have mixing tutorial for other styles as well, rock (various flavors), pop, jazz, classical, ... count me in...