Worship Musician May 2019 | Page 185

PRACTICAL SYSTEM ADVANTAGES the integrated Bluetooth on the console. This for easy patching of additional instruments, like As mentioned above, this system has a ton is pretty handy for quick and easy pre or post woodwinds, brass, choir, strings. We regularly of inputs and outputs. We are currently using service music. use around 36 inputs every week for worship, 18 inputs on the console itself at FOH, which and on big days like Easter, Christmas or our include wireless head worn and handheld mics, Again, we are using three NSB16.8 AVB various program playback devices including a networked stage boxes; two are on the computer running ProPresenter, a computer platform for our backline, and the third one is Currently, we use 16 output channels for running our environmental projection audio, in our AVL closet that is wired to 2 wall panels musician monitors, and 4 for other mixes like etc. You can also run audio playback using on the platform. These two wall panels allow streaming (broadcast) and assistive listening. annual musical, we will use upwards of 50. But this console has 32 outputs! Plenty of options for stereo in-ear mixes, wedges in addition to broadcast mixes. The outputs in the system, called FlexMixes, can be either an auxiliary mix (monitors), a subgroup mix (i.e. drums, backing vocals, etc), or a matrix mix (basically a mix of any input or mix). We don’t use the PreSonus EarMix system, but if we did, that would free up 16 of those outputs… amazing flexibility to grow! Another huge advantage is the ability to save Projects and Scenes. Projects store the global settings, like routing for digital patching, FlexMix modes, network settings, etc. Scenes that share the same global settings should be stored in the same Project. Scenes store May 2019 Subscribe for Free... 185