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<blockquote data-quote="andrew gissing" data-source="post: 91961" data-attributes="member: 75">Re: Avid S3LI&#039;ll take your word for it but I don&#039;t understand. I would have thought that the heavy lifting would be done on the card - phantom, mic pre and AD converter - so just passes out a digital signal to join the rest. uhhh.. like the line level IO box that Greg mentioned. Surely it would have to be that way - because as you&#039;ve written, you can rip the analogue cards out and put them in a rack with no other brains than an ethernet card. This sounds like some kind of purposeful limitation. I also find it amusing that you can&#039;t mount the outputs and all 48 inputs in the one remote rack.... necessitating a second rack if you want to be fully remote. More $$.But hey.. if that&#039;s the way it is. I&#039;ve got no beef with Avid; I teach students with a profile and protools in a lab... all good gear.And yeah David.. one more for TB !</blockquote>

[QUOTE="andrew gissing, post: 91961, member: 75"] Re: Avid S3L I'll take your word for it but I don't understand. I would have thought that the heavy lifting would be done on the card - phantom, mic pre and AD converter - so just passes out a digital signal to join the rest. uhhh.. like the line level IO box that Greg mentioned. Surely it would have to be that way - because as you've written, you can rip the analogue cards out and put them in a rack with no other brains than an ethernet card. This sounds like some kind of purposeful limitation. I also find it amusing that you can't mount the outputs and all 48 inputs in the one remote rack.... necessitating a second rack if you want to be fully remote. More $$. But hey.. if that's the way it is. I've got no beef with Avid; I teach students with a profile and protools in a lab... all good gear. And yeah David.. one more for TB ! [/QUOTE]

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