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<blockquote data-quote="Matthew Knischewsky" data-source="post: 131546" data-attributes="member: 1109">Re: Analog comeback?I know I&#039;m in the minority and I know I&#039;m fighting a loosing battle but in certain applications I very much prefer mixing on an analog console. The main reason is because I feel that my band FOH mixes come together much faster and generally sound better when mixing on analog VS digital. Another reason is when mixing on analog I find myself being able to watch the stage and pay attention to the show more, while on a digital console I feel that I spend much more time immersed in the workings of the mixer. I find my eyes are more often looking down at a screen or verifying I&#039;m on the correct fader bank when on digital.These are just observations and there&#039;s no way I can back them up with any kind of hard data but I do know that when using a maintained working analog FOH mixer and the associated processing I certainly have more fun with my work.I have one major hang up with digital consoles and that&#039;s the trend for more input channels with less control faders on the console surface. I can really do without flipping through fader banks of 16 channels all night long. Yes, I can assign DCAs or custom fader banks but there&#039;s something intuitive to me about having all of the channel faders available on a top layer.There&#039;s a couple of exceptions where I prefer a digital mixer, like having many processing options available for corporate AV and events. Recall ability of digital certainly trumps analog in many cases,&nbsp; and being able to insert many instances of the same processor on multiple channels. Smaller main snakes by using category cable or fibre optic cable... But if I have my choice for mixing bands analog is my first choice, provided doing so isn&#039;t causing a major compromise for the event somewhere else in the system.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Matthew Knischewsky, post: 131546, member: 1109"] Re: Analog comeback? I know I'm in the minority and I know I'm fighting a loosing battle but in certain applications I very much prefer mixing on an analog console. The main reason is because I feel that my band FOH mixes come together much faster and generally sound better when mixing on analog VS digital. Another reason is when mixing on analog I find myself being able to watch the stage and pay attention to the show more, while on a digital console I feel that I spend much more time immersed in the workings of the mixer. I find my eyes are more often looking down at a screen or verifying I'm on the correct fader bank when on digital. These are just observations and there's no way I can back them up with any kind of hard data but I do know that when using a maintained working analog FOH mixer and the associated processing I certainly have more fun with my work. I have one major hang up with digital consoles and that's the trend for more input channels with less control faders on the console surface. I can really do without flipping through fader banks of 16 channels all night long. Yes, I can assign DCAs or custom fader banks but there's something intuitive to me about having all of the channel faders available on a top layer. There's a couple of exceptions where I prefer a digital mixer, like having many processing options available for corporate AV and events. Recall ability of digital certainly trumps analog in many cases, and being able to insert many instances of the same processor on multiple channels. Smaller main snakes by using category cable or fibre optic cable... But if I have my choice for mixing bands analog is my first choice, provided doing so isn't causing a major compromise for the event somewhere else in the system. [/QUOTE]

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