| My band has a laptop with a digi 003 in a rack, and a cheap assed 6 or 8 channel behringer mixer.
Here's the layout:
-The backing tracks (piano, percussion, sound efx) are stereo out of 1-2. This goes to the FOH, via DIs
- The click track (out 3-4) goes to a pair of channels on the behringer mixer, which sits beside our drummer, next to the laptop/protools rig which he operates.
- the tracks also go to another pair of chanels on the mixer.
- The FOH or monitor guy (depending on the size of the venue) sends a monitor mix to a channel or two (mono or stereo) of the little mixer
-Our drummer has "in ears" and can blend the click, the tracks and the band monitor mix to his liking
- the click track has an accented count off for him, that he uses to count us off.
e.g. he gets a 1-2-THREE-FOUR and then counts us in. Count 3 and 4 are pitch shifted higher just incase he brain farts on the count while we're live. The beep beep BEEP BEEP is his cue.)
We're on a Macbook and the tracks session is on the internal drive. 100+ shows and no issues, so far. We DO have the session on a couple of thumb drives on our various Key chains, just in case, though. |