Digital Mixers for Rooms That Are Not Concert Halls
Scene recall, phone control and why sixteen channels is usually plenty.
A mixer a volunteer can reset to a known-good state in one tap is worth more than twice the channel count.
The most common mixing mistake in small congregations is buying capacity nobody uses and losing the ability to recover a good starting point.
A mixer is only as good as the cables feeding it, which is the argument behind our AV booth emergency kit.
Count your real inputs
Two vocals, an acoustic, a keyboard, a lectern mic, a lapel and a laptop feed is seven channels. Sixteen gives room to grow for a decade in most rooms.
Scenes save Sundays
Save a baseline scene, lock it, and teach every volunteer to recall it. Then teach one adjustment at a time. Rooms improve fastest when the floor is protected.
Protect the floor before you chase the ceiling.
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