"Pooh Bear" wrote in message
Mike Rivers wrote:
In article 8
writes:
So, the question is: does that 8 bus and 13 bus difference worth
that US $400.00 difference?
BTW, what's up with the "bus"? How will it affect the performance?
Busses relate to the number of different outputs. The first thing you
need to do is learn to count them yourself since there are subgroup
busses, auxiliary busses, main program (left/right) busses, things
that look like subgroup busses but are really just outputs, and some
other busses too fierce to mention.
I'd suggest that you get a little better hands-on experience with
mixers before you make your choice. It will really help you to
understand what's important to you and what's superfluous.
I also rather suspect Panzzi is going to be on the butt end of load
of kicking when the $7k of gear he bought sounds crap in his echo
chamber regardless of the number of busses !
Sadly the *holy* are unstoppable in their belief. Maybe he reckons
God [1] will make it sound better ?
Believe it or not, more busses can help bail some water when it comes to
fighting with a room that has bad acoustics. Been there, done that!
More busses give you the option to have more customized stage monitor
outputs, which can help in both good and bad rooms.
If you have to manage mics closely because of echoes or feedback, routing a
group of mics that are used together through its own bus can ease keeping
unused mics turned off.
For churches with tape or CD ministries, a bus for taping can help the
intelligibility of the tapes by providing a mix that is favors for the
spoken word parts of the program.
More creative or experienced folks than I can probably come up with more
ways to bail water in a bad room with busses. True you can't squeeze water
out of a rock, but you can try to sop up a little condensation...