ben604

Just played the Cavern again. They've installed a new K-Array PA which we thought looked ace and sounded great with the acoustic-y fella on before us.... Halfway though our second song, the right "array" died and smelled like it was on fire. We had to use our JBL Eon 15 for the right side for the rest of the evening. Then, first song into our second set, the left one starts to smell like fire, so we unplugged it, got their original PA cab out and used that instead! So, eventful! Nice people at the Cavern though, so we got it sorted and soldiered on. Back up in 5 hours....need to wind down....

does the desk have inserts? You could go into another submixer from your channel inserts, a small desk would probably give you another 3/4 mixes (2 aux, monitor, main outs, even panning channels to mono main outputs gives you another layer...) bit fiddly.

I think I'm being a noob here, but having recorded happily with analogue gear, I'm struggling with latency and sync problems with our latest set up. Does anyone use this set up here? Basically, we started recording in anger last night, my brother laid down the drum track to a click generated from logic through the Alesis. Everything's fine. I then go to track the bass, there's very noticeable delay. There's a latency compensation option within the Alesis control panel, changing that from "none" to "high" seemed to have done the trick, but then later while putting the guitar down, we had to change that back from "high" to "none" and back again to get the latency down...?! How would you go about recording, listening back and tracking using this setup?

Ok, that PA head will handle 4 ohms on each channel. Ohms work a bit different to watts, etc... lower is higher, if that makes sense...so your 8 ohm cabs are fine, one in each channel. If you had another 2 x 8 ohm cabinets, you could run two 8 ohm cabinets, in parallel, per output, giving you the minimum - 4 ohm load. So 2 x 8ohm cabinets in parallel = 4 ohms. Does that make sense?