guitarded2
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I could use some help on this one. Sorry if this is a bad place to post this I know this is a recording forum but the people here have more of my respects than other forums 
I'm in a small metal band right now (two guitars, drums, bass and vocals) And for our last gig we played in a large gym type room with carpet floors and no stage. I used my tascam us-1800 going thru my computer to power the microphones to the one singer/bass drum/snare/overhead/two guitars/and bass guitar. From the computer i used input monitoring on one channel to trigger a kick drum sample I adjusted the latency and there were no issues in that department (atleast not enough to be noticed) I don't have a snake or a sound guy so it was hard enough to position all the equipment to get a proper sound check. from the tascam the lines go straight into a small powered mixer into the mains and also a line out into a seperate power amp into two cheap 18" subs. I know this method is unorthodox but financially its all i have at the moment. The rest of the band is throwing stuff out there like "we need a mixing board because thats how everyone else does it" and all that good stuff. I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice to have a mixing board but I just want to get some input on the matter. I've heard nothing but compliments on the sound from the gig. Were playing the same place again in about a month and I think we'd be better off spending the money on subs or mains if we had it. I mean having all the control that a mixer has is nice but I feel like working hard at good mic placement is ok for the smaller gigs that were doing the PA is really just there to help push the sound a little further in and add that "click" to the bass drum. Has anyone ever gone this route and or are there some serious problems that could arise that I'm just not forseeing?
I'm in a small metal band right now (two guitars, drums, bass and vocals) And for our last gig we played in a large gym type room with carpet floors and no stage. I used my tascam us-1800 going thru my computer to power the microphones to the one singer/bass drum/snare/overhead/two guitars/and bass guitar. From the computer i used input monitoring on one channel to trigger a kick drum sample I adjusted the latency and there were no issues in that department (atleast not enough to be noticed) I don't have a snake or a sound guy so it was hard enough to position all the equipment to get a proper sound check. from the tascam the lines go straight into a small powered mixer into the mains and also a line out into a seperate power amp into two cheap 18" subs. I know this method is unorthodox but financially its all i have at the moment. The rest of the band is throwing stuff out there like "we need a mixing board because thats how everyone else does it" and all that good stuff. I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice to have a mixing board but I just want to get some input on the matter. I've heard nothing but compliments on the sound from the gig. Were playing the same place again in about a month and I think we'd be better off spending the money on subs or mains if we had it. I mean having all the control that a mixer has is nice but I feel like working hard at good mic placement is ok for the smaller gigs that were doing the PA is really just there to help push the sound a little further in and add that "click" to the bass drum. Has anyone ever gone this route and or are there some serious problems that could arise that I'm just not forseeing?