Mackie TT System 32 Owner's Manual - Recording At Front of House
Mackie TT24 Digital Live Console Owner’s Manual Addendum v1.7
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Snapshot Recall of Mic Pre Parameters
Because the mic pre parameters can be stored and recalled via snapshots, this can cause
some problems with sharing the mic pre. Ultimately, the users of both consoles want to be
able to store and recall snapshots with gain changes and want changes made from one to not
affect the other.
Features of the 1.7 upgrade
• Two consoles can share the input signals from a single analog or digital snake
• Gain Compensation allows two consoles sharing the same mic pre from a digital snake
to have apparently independent control of their gain structure by using a master/slave
structure.
• When the master console recalls a snapshot with gain changes, the slave console can
compensate.
• When the slave console recalls a snapshot with gain changes, the master console is
unaffected.
Recording at Front of House
In today’s live sound environment, the need to record shows off the front of house desk is
becoming increasingly important. This is especially true at churches and other fi xed installs
which may need to deliver a variety of different performances to a variety of different
recording and broadcast mediums.
Stereo Recording
The most simple delivery medium is a stereo recording to CD. This is commonly done straight
off the LR mix buss with the exact same signal and level. It would be more benefi cial if this
stereo mix could be at a slightly different level allowing you to hit the CD converters as loud
as possible to achieve the best possible SNR. In an advanced scenario, the engineer may wish
to use a different combination of levels from each channel for recording than is used at FOH.
Finally, in addition to creating a different mix of levels for recording, the engineer would
ideally like to have a different set of DSP available for the recording mix essentially having a
completely different mix for recording than for the live output.
Multi Track Recording
If an engineer doesn’t have the time to make a perfect recording mix, or wants to endlessly
perfect the recording mix after the fact, then they may choose to record individual inputs or
groups of inputs onto a multi track device. Sometimes they may choose to record the inputs
without any processing, completely independent of the main mix they are doing for the live
show. Other times they may wish to use the process signals for the recording. Either way,
the recording process should require very little attention during the show. When the show is
complete and they are comfortably in their mixing studio, they can take the time to create the
perfect mix.