Hi, Friends. I hope no one will mind my posting about this here. I have gained such good knowledge from this board regarding recording issues (elementary school music teacher who records various all-original...written by me...programs), that I was hoping the experts would not mind my asking this question here, since I'm really desperate.
We are about to do a school-wide program (just 200 kids, but...quite a venture)...
I recently bought a brand new Behringer powered mixer. Long story, not important, it finally arrived (backorderd through the entire summer), and it sounds horrible. Brought it to my local music store owner, and he agrees...sounds awful...he called his Behringer rep and he said he thinks it must be faulty, because he has yet to hear bad things about this new mixer. Okay. We sent it back. No big deal. Inconvenient, but not the end of the world.
Next move? Buy a different mixer. Fine. I buy a Soundtech PMX10. Great. Sounds great in the store when we try it out. Costs $200 more than the Behringer, but we are so sick and tired of audio problems, we bite the bullet (I eat the extra cost) and buy it. Last night I'm in the gym until midnight trying to make it work. What happens? Great little mixer, but there is some sort of limiter or something (that's not the right term, I'm sure) in it (I'm guessing after 6 hours of trying to get it to work), because it just peaks out constantly, (and no, I'm not running really loud stuff through it.) I run a CD player into the "tape in" or into a channel to provide musical accompaniment with my original orchestrations, and I run the soloist's microphones (in this case this year we only have 3 soloists), and that is all. Period.
It just pops pops pops. If I could try to give you an example, I'd say...say you sing a long "ah"...like this:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh
What you hear is this:
ah --- ah --- ah --- (with pops in the middle that sound like something is shorting out or something like that.)
I don't know how to explain these things, but...maybe you get the idea. Anyway, I'm pulling my hair out and need this to be fixed by 11 today.
Can anyone offer any suggestions/guidance/help?
Thanks a million.
Julia
We are about to do a school-wide program (just 200 kids, but...quite a venture)...
I recently bought a brand new Behringer powered mixer. Long story, not important, it finally arrived (backorderd through the entire summer), and it sounds horrible. Brought it to my local music store owner, and he agrees...sounds awful...he called his Behringer rep and he said he thinks it must be faulty, because he has yet to hear bad things about this new mixer. Okay. We sent it back. No big deal. Inconvenient, but not the end of the world.
Next move? Buy a different mixer. Fine. I buy a Soundtech PMX10. Great. Sounds great in the store when we try it out. Costs $200 more than the Behringer, but we are so sick and tired of audio problems, we bite the bullet (I eat the extra cost) and buy it. Last night I'm in the gym until midnight trying to make it work. What happens? Great little mixer, but there is some sort of limiter or something (that's not the right term, I'm sure) in it (I'm guessing after 6 hours of trying to get it to work), because it just peaks out constantly, (and no, I'm not running really loud stuff through it.) I run a CD player into the "tape in" or into a channel to provide musical accompaniment with my original orchestrations, and I run the soloist's microphones (in this case this year we only have 3 soloists), and that is all. Period.
It just pops pops pops. If I could try to give you an example, I'd say...say you sing a long "ah"...like this:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh
What you hear is this:
ah --- ah --- ah --- (with pops in the middle that sound like something is shorting out or something like that.)
I don't know how to explain these things, but...maybe you get the idea. Anyway, I'm pulling my hair out and need this to be fixed by 11 today.
Can anyone offer any suggestions/guidance/help?
Thanks a million.
Julia