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anjo695237anjo695237 Posts: 2
in London Architect with Soundweb London
Hi my friends...
first of all, sorry for some errors with my english.
I´m from Portugal but i´m living anda working in Switzerland.
I have a band with 4 elements and i want to know if is possible to make a system,maybe with 2 portable computers and one BLU-100 to avoid carring all the heavy hardware like racks with equalizers,compressors and so on...
Just to know...i don´t have any experience with BSS.
Thanks in advance :D

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  • mupi2kmupi2k Posts: 40
    Absolutely it would be possible.

    there's a couple of potential issues. First, you only need one portable computer, unless you plan to use one for playing tracks. (More than one WILL work, but is not officially supported by BSS; you can find a lot of help here for that, however, if you need it)

    Second, you need to make sure that you band is less than 12 inputs. That's going to depend on your band. For example, Drums alone can take up 6-8 inputs (and I've done shows where there were 12 channels of drums, too), but if you are using an electronic drum kit, then it's usually just two inputs. Keyboards are usually two inputs per keyboard, but you can use a small external mixer (like a mackie 1202) to mix all the keyboards together into two channels if you need to.

    After that, it helps to have someone you can talk to about it, but the basic design wouldn't be difficult: a mixer, some EQ's, some compressors. Maybe a crossover so you can drive outputs. If you try to put a 31-band graphic EQ on every input and output, you'll probably have issues with using too much DSP, but that shouldn't be necessary in the first place. Once you get to this stage, you can have some fun. If your intention is just to provide EQ and compressions for some channels, and then go into an external mixer, it will work just as well, however, since you only have 8 outputs, to use it this way you'll either have to mix some channels together, or lose 4 inputs.

    I'd really suggest looking at a mixer based solution though; while it is possible to use soundweb this way, and it works pretty well, it is not without some limitations: things like storing a snapshot of settings to use for a particular song, are difficult, and can be frustrating for a novice user. You can pick up a used Yamaha 01V96 for probably less than you could get a BLU-100 for, and not have to worry about building your design file, DSP usage, etc. A LOT depends on exactly what you want and how you are planning to use it. Soundwebs are incredibly flexible and downright amazing devices for a whole heck of a lot of things, but they aren't the right solution for EVERY problem.
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