[wizardforhire]

This scenario is the stuff of nightmares for me!

When you have 100k people paying $500 to the sky is the limit, failure is not an option. Increasingly audio engineers and subsequently performers are at the mercy of the latest jr developers who don’t have to live with the failures of their short sightedness. Grimes’ Coachella set case in point. Wholly due to pioneer ignoring their users for over a decade. Sometimes we don’t have 3 days to copy files to a usb drive but I digress.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

Apparently, failure was an option. Just not a very popular one.

[fxtentacle]

Grimes failure was still pleasant when you compare it to the mayhem you get when the DSP inside the amplifier system glitches for a few samples.

What do you think happens a dense crowd of 500+ people suddenly starts to have excruciating ear pain?

[jalk]

Is this something that happens often or are you simply speculating?

[munificent]

My understanding is that in practice, for very large shows, electronic musicians have fully redundant computer setups running in parallel and some hardware that will switch over instantly if one fails.

For example, here is one rig:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ableton/comments/7y2u3o/ableton_mai...

It uses a Radial SW8 to automatically switch between the redundant machines if one flakes out:

https://www.radialeng.com/product/sw8

[lomase]

If failure is not an option you bring 2 computers to every gig, burn CDs, and bring your vinyls.

Grimes is a "dj" that does not understand the software. Fixin that problem is one fucking click on the interface.

[alanbernstein]

Heh, I thought it was odd you referenced a ten year old show, but I guess she made a similar mistake twice. Her 2014 Coachella set was a total mess.