hooking up two boards

[ohiopiper]

I have a new Berringer sound board in our church but our band is out of reach to the board. Powered Board is in the back of church and the band is in front. Is it possible to bring in a UNpowered board and run two vocal mics, piano and two guitars into this unpowered board and run a single 1/4" line to the Powered board? I will also run and line to two powered monitors from the unpowered biard.

 

[makkem]

Hi
Not the best way to do it a passive mixer only reduces levels and over any sort of distance you may get noise problems.
If the guitars are to be plugged directly into the mixer at the back of the hall (direct injection) and not plugged into their own amp with a mic in front which is plugged into the mixer then you will have problems with a loss in volume and a loss of high end .
The mics which would need to be low impedance and balanced (which they probably are ) should be ok as would the piano.
The best way would be to mic the guitars up then use a stage box which is simply a box of sockets at the stage and a similar one at the rear mixer connected by a multicore cable.
Failing that you would really need to use a powered mixer.