I have two DCA groups set up, "P. TEAM" which is the entire praise band, and "WORSHIP" which is the pastors, lecturn, etc. This allows me to switch between songs and liturgy with ease. Twice, during the morning's service, as I slid the P.TEAM DCA fader up, I saw one or two of the praise band's channel faders just jump to +10dB, jump to the top. In both cases, I noticed it and managed to quickly bring the offending fader or faders back down. But this is just really weird and disconcerting.

During the closing song, the lead guitar sounded terrible. I selected his channel and immediately noticed the compressor gain reduction LED bar graph fully iit up, maximum gain reduction. When I switched to the compressor page, the threshold was -60dB. No wonder it wasn't working. I reset it correctly and then began flipping through all of the band's channels and found two others with whacked compressor settings. Nobody went anywhere near those settings. And why was it all fine for the previous song? All I had done between the two songs was bring the P.TEAM DCA fader down (with prayer) and bring the WORSHIIP DCA fader up for the closing prayer and announcements, and then slide (with prayer) WORSHIP down while simultaneously sliding P.TEAM up.

Nothing was new this Sunday. It should have been a smooth, easy service. I've done the DCA crossfade maneuver a dozen times every Sunday for the almost ten months we've had SL3-32. I've seen the "run away fader" behavior a few times before. But I have never seen the compressors get whacked like this before.

I'm seriously rethinking this mixer.