I will hopefully post some more specific details tomorrow evening, but my latest results are nothing short of remarkably good (especially when compared to the original). What a difference routing and speaker placement makes!!
A few things I did in this version:
- all mono samples! (This is a BIG space and the speakers are 25’-30’ Away at minimum.)
- 24 groups, with 2 speakers in each. (Cyclic)
- the top, inner-most pairs on each side (that is to say, top right on the left side, and top left on the right side) are my “solo stops” and “chamade” in a C/C# split
- each group is assigned like-sounding pipes (mostly) of the same length, by division (mostly)
- Celestes, mutations, mixtures for manuals are in one group. (Pedal mixtures are in another) since mixtures and Celeste’s are infrequently played together, this works out well)
I am going to try this out with more sample sets tomorrow (Armley Schulze and SP Reuter) tomorrow and report back in detail.
1961TC4ME wrote: other thing not to forget is...... How does it sound out in the church? What might make a noticeable difference up close may not make any difference one way or the other out in the church. If that's the case then I'd just go with what sounds best up close.
Marc
Yes, for now the old original Allen is still in place. I’ve been rolling the new console into the sanctuary and setting it up in the center aisle to do all testing, then rolling it back out when I’m done. So all my testing is from the “ideal listening spot”