New Sound Board!

Here at the good ole ALHS Performing Arts Center we just recently bought a new sound board! The sound board is what allows us to play music, plug in microphones and play whatever we want through the sound system. This is very exciting for us as we have a musical coming up in less than two weeks.

 Below and to the left is where our 8 wireless receivers are now mounted. This rack is in the sound booth. To the right of that is a close shot of the patch panel.

This is the patch panel. All of the inputs from the stage are directed to the board here. It is very similar to a network switch or a phone switch.

 Patches go from mic to mix. If you plug a mic into port 26 on stage, on this panel you plug a line from mic-26 to whichever mix you want.


 Below is the old sound board. It was a 32 channel analog board. It was about 12 years old.

                                                                                                                                                                              To the left is a pile of old equipment. Among it is a few rack mixers, a vcr, old school EQ's, power conditoiners and more.

To the right is a close up of the screen and control panel for our new Yamaha LS9 sound board. This board is digital, much more compact, and can handle a lot more than our old analog board. This board is capable of handling 64 channels and as you can see below it is quite literally half the size of the old board.