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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 42431" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Aux 1/2 and 3/4 switchable?Yes and no... there are actually 8 aux buses that receive feeds and you can send to, but you can only send to 6 of those 8 from a single channel. In practice this gives you more bang for the buck since six pots and a switch cost less and take up less precious real estate than 8 pots. The question is really are the extra two sends usable, and worth the marginal cost increase vs only 6 auxes, or a more expensive, and even longer or tighter laid out control surface. Real estate and ease of accessing controls is generally the dominant consideration but cost matters too when multiplied by every input strip. This falls under the general category I call &quot;mixer math&quot; where stereo inputs often get counted as two, etc... everybody does this to some degree so they don&#039;t get dismissed by a cursory comparison between competitors features. When serious about shopping any board, dig a little deeper than the bullets in the FAB. JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 42431, member: 126"] Re: Aux 1/2 and 3/4 switchable? Yes and no... there are actually 8 aux buses that receive feeds and you can send to, but you can only send to 6 of those 8 from a single channel. In practice this gives you more bang for the buck since six pots and a switch cost less and take up less precious real estate than 8 pots. The question is really are the extra two sends usable, and worth the marginal cost increase vs only 6 auxes, or a more expensive, and even longer or tighter laid out control surface. Real estate and ease of accessing controls is generally the dominant consideration but cost matters too when multiplied by every input strip. This falls under the general category I call "mixer math" where stereo inputs often get counted as two, etc... everybody does this to some degree so they don't get dismissed by a cursory comparison between competitors features. When serious about shopping any board, dig a little deeper than the bullets in the FAB. JR [/QUOTE]

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