First service was yesterday. DM64 + S7000 + ULXD over Dante + 8 ME-1’s. We have made the leap to all digital from almost entirely analog. Here is some of my initial query here. First impression is WOW !! Sound is cleaner than it has ever been but maybe I made some 101 mistakes below.
https://community.allen-heath.com/forums/topic/need-practical-advice-considering-dlive-system
We had a practice Wednesday where the start was rough but eventually ironed out the kinks and everything went well. Sunday was really good and no trouble but for one thing. Some nagging occasional little static like pops. I think it was in the Dante network which was the only thing I changed adding the secondary network with Shure set redundant whereas we practiced with only primary. Some reading leads me to believe I should set to split with primary as control and audio on secondary. That may also be why I never saw the Shure integration for the ULXD in dLive. We have Firmware 1.70 so I hope this is just my mistake setting it up. Need Advice PLEASE. I do have Dante controller to set up the network and all that looked great. Did not have chance to monitor it when in use though with 9 channels running when I first heard it but it even popped with 1 channel active.
Another thing I was really worried might be an issue is we are running a single 5e cable right now as the 6 wire I ordered had not come in and as soon as it does I’ll upgrade to redundant 6 with Ethercon. I also plan to use the same to run to either side of the stage for ME or Aviom hubs. Could this have been our little pops? The master clock is set to the Mixrack also.
We have no more monitor world. Only a wireless device. I think we’ll get used to that but everything is also right there at FOH so 1 man can do it all if need be.
There is ONE thing I’ve found so far I’d like A&H to make available. I want the ME to have a digital line back that I can patch to an output for in ear broadcast. We have one now and maybe two ME’s we will send back for wireless in ear. This would avoid a cable from the headphone jack so is there a way to do this or not possible with ME. Everything has it’s own address so it’s probably possible? Also I don’t know why some ME’s are green and others more of an orange color. Is that a setting I didn’t find.
After I find that pop I’d like to know the best way to set up our old Aviom. We will use ME for Rhythm and Keys but plan to use our old Aviom for our Orchestra when they come back in a few weeks (on schedule with TN Tech University start). Can one of the other ports be used to send the 16 channels for Aviom with the right interface? Otherwise I’ll use direct outs to the existing Aviom unit.
I have already learned so much from this forum and the discussion and will no doubt have many questions to come. We did our own install and it took many hours and more of it was the heavy lifting. New conduit from FOH to Amp room for Ethernet, Re-use of both our old sets of sequencers in series to power up/down everything, cleaning up and removing lots of old stuff and so on. Much fewer hours in actually getting channels and patching and sound running than the physical work. I really like how clean FOH is now and you should see the pile of old equipment. The only OLD stuff we are still using is our EAW 8750 processors ahead of amps and speakers.
I would like to find someone interested in using some of our OLD stuff and we might be happy to give it to another Church that has use.
The better stuff for example:
2 A&H 48 channel GL 4000’s, in need of a couple very minor repairs to be 100% with 3 (1 spare) P/S.
3 4 channel compressors
3 dBx dynamic units
1 2channel Behringer comp (not a fan)
1 Rane processor 2 x 4or6 I don’t recall
1 feedback unit (not sure who bought but never really used)
2 single rack 6 channel mono mixers
1 outstanding 8 channel Studio projects stereo single rack unit (might keep, love the pristine sound of the pre amp)
1 Ashley 8 channel stereo unit (might keep)
Some assorted EQ units and more
SOON TO COME - 2 Yamaha MG-32 consoles
On that last one I already have an SQ-5 in hand ready to go in our Youth center. Baby dLive so our next generation can start learning how to be digital sound engineers.
Next up another SQ-5 or 6 for our Fellowship Hall so we can make a clean sweep.