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Originally Posted by SATCHMO
Ok ok, I'm used to always using an auxillary input snake which is exclusively XLR. For front of the house I have always used a Soundcraft Spirit 40 ch mixing counsel. For monitors it has run the gambit from A mackie 8 ch to a soundcraft II 24 ch. automated.
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Those XLR snakes are ridiculously expensive.
But they're the only thing you can get away with if you're planning on miking a band and mixing any distance away. I have a couple snakes, all TRS, one balanced, another unbalanced, and another is send/return... so basically a Y snake. Those were pretty expensive, but they're invaluable in a studio when you're using a mixer and any kind of hardware processors.
Now that you mention that Soundcraft mixer, I realize that you deal specifically in live mixing, which obviously needs nothing other than XLR inputs.
I think we may have been barking up the wrong, but closely positioned, trees.