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<blockquote data-quote="Dan Michaels" data-source="post: 4278" data-attributes="member: 1569"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Looking for some input from folks I respect, who do this on a more regular basis than we do. Would appreciate some 'sound' input rather than the "that console sucks" crap some folks tend to love slinging. If something blows, tell me WHY.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">In the market for one or two new consoles to replace/supplement the current lineup consisting of an LS9, Soundcraft MH2 and Soundcraft MH3. Digital is the direction and preferably a digital snake due to the constraints we're encountering in venues more and more. First console will probably start its life with me on monitor beach but there's a strong possibility we may look at two so sharing the stage box I/O would be a plus.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">We do quite a bit of repeat business with local/regional performers and see our fair share of the national "weekender" bands who frequent many of the fairs and festivals through the region. Some may travel with their own FOH but most don't come with a monitor engineer. Recall is obviously a must so we can check the headliner, check the support, run the openers and pray the girls in the front row are cute. We also have a few venues throughout the area that provide us good repeat business year 'round so the ability to permanently install a 'snake' is definitely a plus. No more lines across the aisle...</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Monitor mixes range normally from 5-12 but we did have one aging country performer's rider hit 24 recently. For us that's more of a rarity but it did cost us the gig because of having to rent a desk to handle it. IEMs are becoming more commonplace.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">There seems to be a myriad of options but the four that stand out financially and functionally at the moment are:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Yamaha M7 (granted sharing the I/O is difficult digitally)</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Digico SD9</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">DigiDesign SC48</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The forthcoming Yamaha CL3</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The M7 is the console I'm most familiar with and probably the easiest to have someone from the analog world walk up to and comprehend? Our crowds run in the 4000 and fewer department so we're not doing "arena" work by any means. Open fields and theaters, pole-barns and ice-rinks/sheds seem to be where we find ourselves most of the time.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Thanks in advance for your time. I know there was a similar thread to this in the past couple weeks but I thought I'd give you more of an idea as to what we're doing.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Also, I'd really like to have iPad compatibility </span></span><em>if possible</em><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">. Walking out and hearing someone's monitor mix while I'm setting it up helps greatly.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dan Michaels, post: 4278, member: 1569"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Looking for some input from folks I respect, who do this on a more regular basis than we do. Would appreciate some 'sound' input rather than the "that console sucks" crap some folks tend to love slinging. If something blows, tell me WHY.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]In the market for one or two new consoles to replace/supplement the current lineup consisting of an LS9, Soundcraft MH2 and Soundcraft MH3. Digital is the direction and preferably a digital snake due to the constraints we're encountering in venues more and more. First console will probably start its life with me on monitor beach but there's a strong possibility we may look at two so sharing the stage box I/O would be a plus.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]We do quite a bit of repeat business with local/regional performers and see our fair share of the national "weekender" bands who frequent many of the fairs and festivals through the region. Some may travel with their own FOH but most don't come with a monitor engineer. Recall is obviously a must so we can check the headliner, check the support, run the openers and pray the girls in the front row are cute. We also have a few venues throughout the area that provide us good repeat business year 'round so the ability to permanently install a 'snake' is definitely a plus. No more lines across the aisle...[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Monitor mixes range normally from 5-12 but we did have one aging country performer's rider hit 24 recently. For us that's more of a rarity but it did cost us the gig because of having to rent a desk to handle it. IEMs are becoming more commonplace.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]There seems to be a myriad of options but the four that stand out financially and functionally at the moment are:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Yamaha M7 (granted sharing the I/O is difficult digitally)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Digico SD9[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]DigiDesign SC48[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]The forthcoming Yamaha CL3[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]The M7 is the console I'm most familiar with and probably the easiest to have someone from the analog world walk up to and comprehend? Our crowds run in the 4000 and fewer department so we're not doing "arena" work by any means. Open fields and theaters, pole-barns and ice-rinks/sheds seem to be where we find ourselves most of the time.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Thanks in advance for your time. I know there was a similar thread to this in the past couple weeks but I thought I'd give you more of an idea as to what we're doing.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Also, I'd really like to have iPad compatibility [/FONT][/COLOR][I]if possible[/I][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]. Walking out and hearing someone's monitor mix while I'm setting it up helps greatly.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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