You need to boot it up and, depending on the mixer, that could take anywhere from a minute to several minutes. The reason is that because a digital mixer is a computer, when power is interrupted you can’t just switch it back on like an analog mixer. I also recommend a computer UPS (battery backup) from a company like APC or TrippLite. One thing to invest in if you haven’t is a top-line power conditioner like a Furman. While they are pretty robust, you can still mess them up and repairs can be costly. A digital board is a computer with knobs and faders and is significantly more complex than an analog mixer. Keep the existing analog system going as the production system until everyone has been trained and is comfortable with the digital board.īefore you start with the digital mixer, make sure everyone has reviewed the user manual. If you have instruments that you can plug in that helps as well. It requires some mics and cables as well as a couple of speakers for monitors and FOH stand-ins. What I recommend is that the digital mixer not be put into service immediately but be brought into a 2-4 week training duty cycle. It’s a big transition and you shouldn’t minimize it, but treat it with care and planning and the transition will go smoothly. Outboard gear usually goes away and everything is now handled with the digital mixer. Depending on the digital board, layers control everything from different grouping of faders (1-8, 9-16, etc) to control over the aux sends, FX, etc. Some things that you need to consider in this transition is how uncomfortable the volunteers are going to be until they make the paradigm switch from the analog WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) to the digital layers. I know that nothing has been touched with the FOH EQ, compressors and FX since I helped them set it up about a year ago. Volunteers selected more for their willingness to serve than their knowledge of audio. The church has 2 audio volunteers that are pretty much average in their knowledge of sound and sound systems so this would be a typical transition for a lot of churches in the 100-400 person attendance range. Based on the maximum number of channels that they anticipated needing over the next 5 years I recommended the PreSonus StudioLive 24.4, one of the least expensive 24-channel digital mixers on the market. They were in need of more channels than their A&H 16-channel MixWiz with some outboard gear (FOH EQ, couple of compressors, FX unit) could provide. I’m in the process of helping one of my churches transition from an analog mixer to a digital mixer.
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