How to make a direct to board mix sound good?

[morningstar]

What are the top ten rules to observe when running presets to a board instead of an amp?

Thanks

morningstar

[Brooks]

a live to 2 track gig recording?

if everythings mic'd up, side fill your amps (so they are not facing the soundboard); this will keep the soundman from burying the gtrs & bass on the board because they are so loud where he's standing/tweaking the mix.

if side fill amps &/or mic'ing up everything isn't an option, it helps sometimes to have one of the 2 tracks direct from the board, and the other track from a room mic.

[hardheartedbill]

Turn noise gate off

tweak at stage volume. Get the drummer to play to set volume, tweak

Use the same basic rig for every patch to start with . jumping from a twin to a rectifier messes w the mixer input eq. I use the same amp model w a "new pedalboard" for each path. This way you can get a consistent eq w various degrees of gain and fx.

[burningyen]

Set up your patches using a FRFR (full-range, flat-response) stage monitor or reference studio monitors, loud. Don't set up your patches with a guitar amp.