Mackie SR244 / SR324 Owner's Manual - Page 38

Applications CHURCH INSTALLATION Here's a very different situation: you are to mix a church service in a large sanctuary featuring a worship team with drums, bass, guitar, piano, synthesizer and three vocalists. The band would like two stage monitor mixes. There will be two ministers, each with a wireless lavalier mic, occasional speaking from the congregation (using a wireless handheld mic), music playback before the service from a CD player, and a special performance by the women's chorale. You will also need to provide infrared transmission to wireless headphones for the hard-of-hearing, a cry room feed and a stereo recording feed. (Please refer to the graphic on page 10.) Also, there are three fixed microphones: one on each of the two lecterns or pulpits, and one on the altar. This is how we'll set it up: As you can see on page 10 the worship team band is routed to submix buses 1 & 2 and the three vocalists to submix buses 3 & 4. This allows you to set a good stereo balance on the music and then simply move the whole group up and down with a couple of (submix) faders. Use the L/R ASSIGN button on the submix strips to re-assign the worship team back into your main stereo mix. All the rest of the mics and sources are assigned directly to the main Left/Right buses. Aux 1 is used as a monitor send to the pulpit. Aux 2 and 3 provide two different monitor submixes for the worship team or the chorale. Aux 4 sends a mix to the infrared hearing-aid transmitter/emitter. The reverb sent on Aux 5 is being returned into stereo line inputs 23-24. You could simply bring the reverb back through a stereo aux return, but using a line input gives you EQ and more flexibility in routing. See the table on this page for your output connections. Set all the faders and the AUX SEND MASTERS to "U." Depress the solo MODE switch to activate IN PLACE AFL. Now solo each input and adjust the TRIM control to obtain a good reading on the main meters. If you'd like to hear the channels as you solo them, you must use headphones or connect an amplifier and speakers to the CONTROL ROOM OUT jacks. Carefully raise the MASTER fader until you have the overall level that you desire in the main sanctuary speakers. You can now start mixing with the channel faders and submix faders. Use the AUX 1, 2 and 3 controls on the channel strips to develop a mix for the monitor speakers. Use the AUX 4 and mono output level controls for the infrared and cry room mixes. Set the stereo line input fader on channel strip 23-24 (31-32 on SR32•4) to "U," this is your effects return master. Use the AUX 5 controls on each channel (in conjunction with the controls on the digital effects units) to adjust the reverb or delay to the setting you prefer. The four-track multitrack recorder is just an optional rehearsal deck, good for allowing the choir members to assess their polytonality. CHURCH INSTALLATION output connections Connection Destination LEFT MASTER Mains power amplifier left input RIGHT MASTER Mains power amplifier right input MONO MASTER Mono "fill zone" power amp input TAPE OUT L Cassette recorder left input TAPE OUT R Cassette recorder right input TAPE IN L Cassette recorder left output TAPE IN R Cassette recorder right output AUX SEND 1 Pulpit monitor amplifier input AUX SEND 2 Stage monitor 1 amplifier input AUX SEND 3 Stage monitor 2 amplifier input AUX SEND 4 Infrared transmitter/emitter input AUX SEND 5 Digital effects (reverb) input AUX SEND 6 Digital effects (reverb) input MAIN INSERT L Compressor/limiter MAIN INSERT R Compressor/limiter SUB 4 INSERT Compressor/limiter 36