My All-In-One Live Sound Rack (And ideas to build yours)

I've been asked a lot about my live sound rack and how I can have a "show in a box" be so simple and effective, so I figured there must be audio nerds out there that would also like to see what's in my rack. I also tried to go as in depth as efficiently as I could on how everything works together and I hope I have given you an idea on how you can build one for your needs as well!
links:
linktr.ee/redshedrecords
Work with me:
www.redshedrecords.net
Thanks for watching!

[@jeffmaestro]

Appreciate you taking time out for this. Great job! I’m building a rack now with the Mackie dl32. Peace

[@rogercranford7139]

Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge.

[@redshedrecords]

You're welcome! Let me know if there's another topic you'd like me to consider covering 😁

[@peterlockwood8284]

cool rig. I hate having excess wiring so we use an AES50 cord to send to FOH and make our unit the master and FOH the slave.

[@pauljosse]

pa 2 is the most underrated addition around, it rocks.

[@redshedrecords]

It's great! It does exactly what I need it to and has plenty of features. The app control is the best part

[@mikebottiaux5850]

Great information!

[@redshedrecords]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rqg16]

Thanks for the video

[@georgelincoln5041]

I like your system. A band should take control of their monitoring system and yours will make that happen. If you need to run PA for smaller gigs with no FOH, it will double for that as well. Adequate power distribution is overlooked by many diy bands, so your approach is solid. Good clean power will keep all the other gear lasting a lot longer.

[@ChemistTea]

That looks so complicated. I have more questions than when I started O_o I might come back to this after more basic info

[@MrKeithsplace]

Nice set up.. My long time all in one is: SAC(Software Audio Console) running on a 2U rack mounted Window 7 PC With RME Raydat card 4x 8200 Behringer mic pre’s 1u@ 2 Crown 2500’s for mains 2u@ 1 Carvin 4ch amp 2u 650va UPS 1u7 CD,DVD,MP3, USB, AUX player 1u 1u top space is power strip with front rack lights, front USB power, receptacle, with 8 rear receptacles. I can roll it in, have front of house in 20 minuets, from drop of the trailer door, not by choice but it’s happened. So that’s 32 in 32 out can record each channel. I have quit a few live mixes on my channel, all mixed on it.

[@redshedrecords]

Nice! I love the all-in-one rack benefits. You can be SO fast at setting up, and it takes up hardly any space at all. I sometimes miss my passive speakers, but I built some "Siamese" power/xlr cable runs for my RCF speakers, so it isn't so bad.

[@aaronm9353]

Hey. I’ve just been checking out this SAC you speak of. It was difficult to find since it has such a generic name, but I believe I’ve found the site of its creator. How do you get a hold of the software? I couldn’t find any download links on that website. I’ve never heard of it before, but I’m rather curious to check it out.

[@omarguerrero6417]

Been trying to do something like this but if I did I'm gonna need to setup all my stuff too like the game console I have and computer and dvd player just so the audio rack isn't alone and feels out of place

[@TalentLe8159]

For split if your using it sometimes I would put it in a separate rack and the rack looks good

[@redshedrecords]

I've done that! I may explore that option again. My goal is to always have my rig as compact as possible

[@igorzavalnyi5341]

@@redshedrecords I'd use the built-in mixer outputs for the in-ears and a separate digital stagebox for the FOH outputs in a separate rack. 1 ethernet cable and you're good to go when you need that. Another option is Dante, which is very common now, RME sells AVB-Dante bridges for quite cheap.

[@broadcastedtube]

nice

[@howarddierking7409]

Dumb question here, but based on how you're splitting, how does gain staging work between your rack mixer and front of house? What about phantom power? Another way to ask, how do you keep your mixer and FOH from sword fighting?

[@robertogarrido4876]

Need this answer as well, I get that it works I just don’t get how or if there’s something to do

[@djabthrash]

Both consoles (foh and mon) are after the copper splitter, so each console handles the gain for their own channels. Phantom power (of the splitter allows phantom power to pass through, which is not always the case iirr) can be provided by foh mixer or mon mixer, and often times it's best to choose which one (most logical is the mon mixer since it's close to the splitter)

[@Jjdjentertainment]

I hope you keep at your channel! with less than 500 subscribers you have a great wealth of content that i wish more live AV channels did! Do you have any goto production channels you enjoy? Keep at it! Great stuff without heavily edited down videos. Keep it up!

[@redshedrecords]

Thanks! I plan on keeping up with it! I like DJ Woopig, and Micheal Curtis for a few AV suggestions. I don't actually have a ton that I watch specifically. Let me know if you'd like me to speak on a specific topic more 😁

[@Jjdjentertainment]

@@redshedrecords woopig is the greatest!

[@chrisclose7793]

I just about to upgrade from a analogue desk to a digital desk as prefer mixing on a physical desk im not a fan of a rack mounted mixers I'm running crown amps and xta speaker management for my foh speakers and monitors,keep up the great content

[@redshedrecords]

I do love me some good physical control myself! Someday I'm sure I'll add a console, but for most things the wireless mobility and speed of setup is marvelous for all the gigs I currently do!

[@djabthrash]

Rack digital mixer and midi controller and you're good

[@bscheirman]

When you use your wireless to solo a mix, how are you doing that on the PreSonus? This is one area I'm not sure about, as I have multiple mixes, and it's hard to keep tabs on how it's all sounding because I'm also playing in the band.

[@redshedrecords]

Firstly, you need to be monitoring out of the headphone out on the front of the mixer. In the settings, use "CR" monitoring mode for "control room" style monitoring. Then when you solo a channel or an aux mix you will hear that source in your headphones. As the drummer and the engineer of the band, I like monitoring the main LR mix which acts as my control mix and sounds good with all faders at unity, and that way my bandmates' mixes have a good baseline to build from if I start their mixes with even faders as well. Hope this helps! Let me know if you have further questions

[@bscheirman]

@@redshedrecords this helps, thanks. I would love to see a video on this!

[@redshedrecords]

Hope this helps! kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZ-8p2dtfraGbs0

[@tommykavounidis]

What the size of that rack case?

[@redshedrecords]

If I remember right I think this is a 12u from Pro X Cases

[@jimtastic7076]

this dude has the typical haircut of every feminist girl ever