Re: A&H QU info leaked a day early
16 mono input channels, three TRS stereo channels appears to be both the board config and what's available from the AR2412, so 22* channels. I have no problem running keys and OH's into stereo channels. My typical multi-act drum mics are kick and 2 OH's processed via a DBX DDP to regulate the cymbal content (prior to the bleed through the vox mics), so one mono input and one stereo input for the kit. Aphex 207 tube pre for the OH's into the DDP in a stage box which also houses the backline drop snake box.
So for the multi-act, throw and go stages, 22 inputs (or 20) with 16+2+2(+2) should be just fine. As to the monitor mixes, there is a bit of wiggle room there. If you sacrifice "stereo", you still have 7 mono monitor mixes.....or 4m/3s, 5m/2s, 6m/1s. Future software tweaks may well address this and make it user configurable.
For anything requiring more than this you'll need to break out your larger console........but this will cover a lot of the day-to-day gigs and give a pretty fair and rapid ROI. From a business standpoint it's very nice. From the "Hey! I'm a sound-guy!" point of view, nothing will ever be good enough or cheap enough........
