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Hi,

I've been using an SDS 400 in my live band for about a year now. We are
comprised of bass, guitar, and drums, with lots of effects processing on the
guitars. Our stage volume is rather loud [ working on that, heh ], and we're
tying to figure out some ways to boost the volume of the SDS 400. We run
triggers on our acoustic drum kit: floor tom, hi tom, low tom, and kick. The
kick and the toms are on the quiet side, it seems the tones themselves are
rather soft. Unfortunately our drummer has not been playing for long and his
touch can be erratic, causing the SDS 400 to not always trigger properly and
I have to keep adjusting the sensitivity live. To compensate we run each
output from the SDS 400 into it's own input on a rack mixer but this still
leaves much to be desired. We are wondering if anyone has any suggestions
for live mixing with these units to get a consistent, loud output and if
anyone has used compressors, specific EQing, limiters/enhancers etc on their
kits live?

Thanks, Dion

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