PreSonus StudioLive Digital Mixer Webinar Part 4 - CCI Solutions
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Now, let me show you how to recall a scene
from VSL. So let me pull up VSL real quick.
And, I'll double-click on this icon and
now here are my scenes right here.
Now, I'm gonna tell you a story real quick.
A..personal story about my wife.
Uh, she's watching this webinar right now so
...Love you baby! [blows a kiss]...
[laughing]...brownie points, you know?
So, ah, my wife was the uh, worship leader's
ah...at our church's assistant
for a while and you know, was the secretary basically for the worship, uhm, uhm, ministry.
And although we had a full-time sound man,
that would come and mix on Sunday mornings,
uhm...for any other kind of thing that happened in the church,
like, who does sound for a wedding?...
or a funderal? Guess who it was?
My wife.
Okay. [chuckles] And, uh, bless her heart. She
uh, is not a musician. She's not technical.
She'd much rather write you a letter than
send you an email. Uh, hates computers.
Uh, and she would walk up to this big board with all these knobs and faders
and just be in total distress and, you know, it
was a bummer. But this is true of a lot of churches.
You wer..you will have people that have to operate this equipment
that are not musicians, that are not technical. They don't know anything about
this. Well that's where VSL really saves the day.
Let's go back to the screen.
Okay. So let's say, uh, I need to recall
a scene for the funeral. Okay? Now, I showed you on the board. Let me
show you how easy it is on VSL. I just go up to
the "Funeral" preset. And I click, and I'm gonna drag it and drop it anywhere on the board.
Boom. The board instantly changes.
I mean look how easy it is. I just click this preset,
drag it over here.
Click this preset, drag it over here.
The board is instantly changing
to all of these different settings.
It's cool, huh?
Okay. So that will really allow you
uh, espec...especially for your volunteers
uh, that have to touch this equipment
to be able to get around and, and switch scenes
very easily. Okay, so let me tell you
about the next thing we're gonna talk about...
and that is...Mixing Wirelessly...and you know,
this is something that PreSonus,
uhm, I think we were probably the first
digital console manufacturer at this price range
to be able to offer a solution that will allow you
to be able to mix wirelessly with an iPad.
So this is, the iPad app
StudioLive Remote.
And this is the one that comes free
uhm, on the Apple App Store. So here's
all of my levels...you know, on faders.
If I want to, you know, basically click on an
individual channel and, you know, grab an EQ,
like, let's say, you know here's uh acoustic
my acoustic guitar...and I want to just grab the "Acoustic Guitar" right here...
and hit the EQ...and start tweaking something
wha...look at the board, as you can see I'm, I'm
controlling the board from this iPad and I
can walk around and you know, basically
be in the exact position. I think at one time
in the bylaws of, uh, church construction
there was a law that you had to place the sound
board in the worst possible place, up in some
heinous balcony..where you can't hear anything.
And, thank God, you know, that churches are
starting to, to uh, you know be built with sound
in..in mind. But, you know if you're one of these
churches that, uhm, basically your front-of-house mix position isn't in
a, an area of the room where it sounds completely different,
from where, what the congregation hears, you
will love this. Because, all of a sudden
you can go down and actually influence
the sound from wherever the people are.
And it's a huge huge benefit. Uh, the other thing that you can do with the StudioLive Remote
is, let's say if I just want to look at 1 channel
really big, like this Acoustic Guitar channel...
Just turn this portrait mode...Now it, it
basically blows up just that one channel. So
here's my Gate for that channel. Here's
my Compressor for that channel.
If I want to assign that Acoustic Guitar to Aux 2
here's my assignments to the Auxes right down
here. Okay? If I want to go to the Kick Drum
right here on the right-hand side I can
just go up here to "Kick" and now I'm on the Kick Drum channel.
You know? And I did this all wirelessly.
And it's really cool.
Uhm, so, I can tell you right now
you know, our sound guy, uhm, has been using
the iPad app now, and he will never, ever, ever, ever want to mix without it. Because
it leterally changes your whole perspective
uh, on mixing. Uhm, I once talked to
another uh, uh worship uh, sound guy
and he told me that "You mean I can sit
next to my wife in the pew and, and mix the service?"
"Yes you can!"
So uh, thanks to uh the StudioLive Remote.
Okay. So, the next thing that we're gonna talk about
is one of the big things with the StudioLive.
And that is its ability to record very easily.
And like I told you before,
uhm, you know, PreSonus has really been
sort of in the business of creating recording solutions first.
Uh, so we wanted to make sure
that our, our..our board had the ability to record,
but recording was not an afterthought. So I'm
just gonna close this right quick.
And I'm gonna open it up just like I would on a Sunday morning.
And let's just say "We want to record." Now,
here's the thing with recording,
It's like you almost have to have a different
brain...the old way...to record the worship service. Because your job
as the front of house sound engineer is
to make sure that people can hear,
that the sound right..is right for the room.
But, in order to record the service,
traditionally you have to deal with
a whole other system...
a whole other recording system,
with its own Gains. So, you could actually be mixing great in the, in the, in the room
but then the levels going to the, um, or the volumes
that are going to the recording, uh solution might be
overloading. Well that's not ever gonna happen with the StudioLive. The reason is
is that you have one Gain stage on the mixer.
And so, basically, as soon as I adjust these Gains,
to where they're not clip...clipping or overloading for the house,
basically they're set for the recording. So now
I go to "Capture," i hit "Create Session,"
I pick where I wanna put that session,
and I hit 2 buttons: "Arm All Tracks,"
hit "Record," and we're recording.
I didn't have to assign anything to anything.
I didn't have to set up any menus, nothing.
We're recording. And now I'm mixing.
I'm basically not even thinking about recording.
Right when the service is over,
uh, you can do several different things. You can
export these tracks out. You can not only
record individual tracks, but, if you look down at the bottom,
you also have the ability to record a stereo track. So
you can ctually do the stereo output of the board,
or a stereo Aux send, or two of your subgroups,
and make a [snaps fingers] instand duplication
version, you know, just a stereo recording
as well as multi-tracking.
You know, I think multi-tracking's
really important for uh, churches, and I'll tell
you why...is that you just never know
what Sunday would be the Sunday that you
wish you would have been able to record. And
not just record, have the ability to go back
and remix and re-edit.
Uhm, I'm from Louisiana.
Uhm, and our company's based out of Baton Rouge.
And uhm, we uh, our church was set up as
a shelter after Hurricane Katrina
for the families of the fire-fighters in New Orleans.
Uhm, they were, many of them were homeless.
Uh, after the hurricane and they were living in our church.
And our worship leader wrote, uh, an amazing
amazing song, and we had a prayer time one
night with all of the families there.
And he sang this song and so many people
wanted a copy of it and, at that time, we..it
you know, it was years ago. It was 2005
way before the StudioLive, and we didn't have anything
to, to give these people. And it just was one of those Sunday's that, man!
If we just could have recorded it, and not just recorded it
being able to really go back an remix
and re-edit it's huge right?
It, it's completely a part of the StudioLive solution. It's not
an afterthought. Uhm, we designed it to be easy to multi-track. Let me
tell you something else...is
Hard-drive costs. I mean, you know, I can buy a...How much is a
2 terabyte hard drive these days? Anybody?
[Audience member speaking] $150 [Rick] 150 bucks!
2 terabytes. I don't even know the math of how many Sunday mornings that would be.
But, it's a bunch. And, it's a 2 terabyte hard drive. So
You don't have any excuse to not multi-track...any more.
It's really easy. And it's really inexpensive.
Compared to where it used to be.
Okay, so the next thing we're gonna talk about
with regards to the Virtual, uh, sorry
with, with Capture and how it works
is another benefit. It's not just for recording.
It's for something we call, we, we like to call
"Virtual" Soundcheck.
Now, let me ask you, uh, to my audience here,
How many of you all that mix live sound did a sound check within the last month?
Raise your hand.....Okay. You're lying.
[Chuckling] And I'll tell you why.
Because, I play in a church and I'll tell you what the typical Sunday morning is.
And this is not a soundcheck...
Okay? Uh, so it's a 9 AM service...
You tell everybody to be there at 8 AM.
Okay? The drummer's late...
A couple of people are kinda straggling in...
there's a buzz in the PA...
there was a wedding on the Saturday before...
you're going crazy...
you're trying to get it together...
Right? The worship leader's going crazy
'cause half the musicians are late, and
he just says "Hey, c'mon let's run the songs."
Everybody's playing at the same time.
Okay? If you want to...play with the compression setting
on your snare drum, can you get the, the
drummer to stop, you know, basically say "Hey
can you hit the snare drum for about 3 minutes
and everybody else quite noodling?"
Does that every happen? [Audience chuckling] Okay?
That's because we, sound people,
are on the battle field [laughing],
uh, on Sunday mornings.
And it's literally survival mode, and you're just
trying to get it happening for Sunday morning.
Okay. So that's the other big benefit of Capture.
You know? What if I could actually have my
band there, all together on time, and I
could make them not play, and I could
only listen to one thing at a time. Well now you
can. So basically all I have to do...
is, basically, [clicking buttons on the console] engage these Firewire return
buttons you see. When these are not engaged,
it's the analog signal that you plug in from the
jacks on the back that are coming into the board. As soon as I engage
these firewire return buttons I'm actually bringing in
individual recorded tracks from let's say my last
Sunday service into the board just as an
analog signal. So now, I hit "Play" here...
and I can kinda, start bringing up my whole band [sound of a band begins and gets louder]
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And I can kinda get a little mix happening...
Not only that, let's say I want to wor, I want to
work on the bass guitar sound. I can Solo the bass.
[Bass playing through mixer] And now, drop it in a preset on it.
Maybe I want to try a new sound on it.
And go ahead and find a, oh! We've never
tried this one...the bass slap preset.
Recall, boom. Now we have a starting point. Oh
this is working, but too much compression. I can
go ahead, and you know, kind of adjust it
here, save it to a new place. Now I can go
to the uh, the lead vocalist...[vocals start playing through the mixer]
and mess with their compression settings.
Bascially, having your band there without
them being there. And they're at your command
for when you want them to play.
Uh, this really allows you to be
able to get the front of house mix
I would say 95 percent dialed in.
You know, in today's world, expecially in churches
so many churches are moving to the "silent stage"
kind of concept...using in-ear monitors...
you know, electronic drums, or at least
drum shields to kind of keep the stage volume down.
When you hit "Play" with Capture
and you start mixing your worship service like
this, as just a way to, you know, play
with different settings on the board...
save new scenes, uh, you will get 95 percent of the way there.
And it's real really cool. It's invaluable. Uhm,
and it'll actually change the way that you
completely mix.
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