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Author Topic: Presonus Studiolive 24.4.2- Easy to use for Church?  (Read 5180 times)

David Hilderman

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Presonus Studiolive 24.4.2- Easy to use for Church?
« on: May 04, 2012, 01:11:20 AM »

We are considering a SL24 for our church.  Say there is a funeral on a Tuesday morning and there are no sound people from our church available to do sound.  Would the person that would get put behind the board be able to figure out how to get things working for the special music and the minister doing the service?

On our old analog board, things always could get figured out.

Does anyone have an SL24 at their church that can let me know their experiences?

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Jonathan Goodall

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Re: Presonus Studiolive 24.4.2- Easy to use for Church?
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2012, 01:24:53 AM »

Might pay you to check the posting rules and amend your profile, you have to have your real name showing or the thread will be locked :)
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Re: Presonus Studiolive 24.4.2- Easy to use for Church?
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2012, 03:30:14 PM »

As long as you have someone to set everything up, there should be no problems. Meaning someone on staff or a regular sound guy who is knowledgeable at setting things up and who is familiar with the LS24. Potentially it will be a few weeks or months before what you describe is easily achieved, if the eg funeral scenario happened suddenly. If you know ahead of time and your engineer might be able to stop by, and set the scene.

You could set a few scenes for such scenarios and then have quick cheat sheet, maybe even just a laminated piece of paper, right at the mixer. Assuming there will be a computer there, you could even have a short video explaining things. At our church, I just made sure our iMac had facetime, and loaded in my facetime address. So a quick video chat is possible.

Hope that helps. For the money, the Presonus is a great mixer IMO.

Jason
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Re: Presonus Studiolive 24.4.2- Easy to use for Church?
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2012, 04:08:46 PM »

We are considering a SL24 for our church.  Say there is a funeral on a Tuesday morning and there are no sound people from our church available to do sound.  Would the person that would get put behind the board be able to figure out how to get things working for the special music and the minister doing the service?
You could set a few scenes for such scenarios and then have quick cheat sheet, maybe even just a laminated piece of paper, right at the mixer.
That would be very dependent on the person at the mixer and their abilities.  Because of the lack of motorized faders and the way some of the rotary controls work, recall of a preset or scene on the StudioLive is not as simple or effective as with other digital consoles.  But if the operators could chart and set an analog console, then using the StudioLive presets should be easier.
 
I should add that it may also depend on what is involved.  If the basic console assignments, routing and configuration do not change then that is one thing, if you have to change some of those aspects then unless the operator is familiar with the StduioLive that may not be as direct as it was with analog
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Re: Presonus Studiolive 24.4.2- Easy to use for Church?
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2012, 04:31:08 PM »

That would be very dependent on the person at the mixer and their abilities.  Because of the lack of motorized faders and the way some of the rotary controls work, recall of a preset or scene on the StudioLive is not as simple or effective as with other digital consoles. 

True it may not be as simple or effective but with all the money you save, you could train multiple poeple  ;D

But there would not necessarily be a need to move the faders after you recall the scene. The levels will be set, you just wont see the faders move if it is in locate mode. This would work if the gains don't need to be adjusted.

That said, the person will probably need to have some level of technical understanding to feel comfortable.

Jason

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Presonus Studiolive 24.4.2- Easy to use for Church?
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2012, 08:21:56 PM »

I op at a church gig with an SL24. After each show with a real engineer, the engineer loads the default scene. No fader or pot recall is configured so that's no problem.

Once that scene is hit, it's no more problem then an analog board. Gains, faders, master, done. Totally workable for exactly what you are trying to do. Plus, EQs and etc can be out in the default scene, which requires no operator input. No one even needs to know how to load a scene for those events without engineers, I you make it policy that the last engineer loads the default. You could make multiple scenes for different types of events, but that's new complicated than it prolly needs to be.
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Re: Presonus Studiolive 24.4.2- Easy to use for Church?
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2012, 11:19:47 PM »

True it may not be as simple or effective but with all the money you save, you could train multiple poeple  ;D
Which is precisely where David's example concerns me.  I interpreted the example to be asking if someone without any training, with unknown, and potentially limited, mixing experience and with no experience with that particular system or mixer would be able to mix a 'non-standard' event.  Without some relevant knowledge and/or training on the part of the operator that is probably a challenge for any console style mixer.
 
If someone were able to preset the console in advance then it being operated by someone with limited expertise might be much more viable, but if the console may be left setup from the last Sunday service or if the events may require a special setup then that is likely going to require someone with at least some level of relevant experience and ability.
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