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<blockquote data-quote="Greg Cameron" data-source="post: 41537" data-attributes="member: 42"><p>Re: Digital mixer - pros and cons?</p><p></p><p>What a coincidence. Just took delivery on a new SC48 yesterday to replace my aging GL4000-48. I'm an analog guy. But there were considerations with my situation that made the digital desk the way to go. Here's what I was dealing with:</p><p></p><p>GL4800 cons:</p><p></p><p>- I'm a one man army that has to setup and strike the desk and outboard by myself. That's a lot of desk to move by yourself.</p><p>- the analog desk is aging and will need faders to be replace soon along with some other fixing</p><p>- the analog setup takes up a considerable amount of floor real-estate for our size venue. That's less room for folks.</p><p>- setup time with the analog setup is minimum 1 hour for 1 person since full mults were not option. I've got some ELCO (which I hate) but there's a lot of manual patching of processing, snakes, sends/returns, etc. It take time and is a PITA.</p><p>- muti-band sound checks: having to change settings and write things down when doing a lot of bands</p><p>- not very rider friendly</p><p></p><p>GL4800 Pros:</p><p></p><p>- sounds decent, *maybe* better than most digital though that's very debatable</p><p>- relatively easy to figure out for the level of mix guys I deal with</p><p>- you can see all that easy to read & use outboard gear</p><p>- no layers to deal with</p><p>- no plugin navigation</p><p>- no screen or trackball required</p><p>- doesn't have the potential to crash</p><p></p><p>SC48 Pros:</p><p></p><p>- super fast setup</p><p>- small enough for 1 person to setup and teardown</p><p>- takes up minimal floor real-estate, no outboard needed</p><p>- sounds decent</p><p>- more outputs</p><p>- scene recall for saving all band settings</p><p>- more processing power than you can shake a stick at, no more going behind the desk to patch inserts</p><p>- rider friendly</p><p>- 18 ch. ProTools recording (wish it was WAY more)</p><p>- remote control</p><p></p><p>SC48 Cons</p><p></p><p>- Newbies to digital have a learning curve or may not be able to use it at all</p><p>- layers</p><p>- can't see all the processing at the same time</p><p>- it's a computer, it can crash</p><p></p><p></p><p>For me, the cons were too few to not go that route. So bye bye analog, it was fun while it lasted...</p><p></p><p>Greg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greg Cameron, post: 41537, member: 42"] Re: Digital mixer - pros and cons? What a coincidence. Just took delivery on a new SC48 yesterday to replace my aging GL4000-48. I'm an analog guy. But there were considerations with my situation that made the digital desk the way to go. Here's what I was dealing with: GL4800 cons: - I'm a one man army that has to setup and strike the desk and outboard by myself. That's a lot of desk to move by yourself. - the analog desk is aging and will need faders to be replace soon along with some other fixing - the analog setup takes up a considerable amount of floor real-estate for our size venue. That's less room for folks. - setup time with the analog setup is minimum 1 hour for 1 person since full mults were not option. I've got some ELCO (which I hate) but there's a lot of manual patching of processing, snakes, sends/returns, etc. It take time and is a PITA. - muti-band sound checks: having to change settings and write things down when doing a lot of bands - not very rider friendly GL4800 Pros: - sounds decent, *maybe* better than most digital though that's very debatable - relatively easy to figure out for the level of mix guys I deal with - you can see all that easy to read & use outboard gear - no layers to deal with - no plugin navigation - no screen or trackball required - doesn't have the potential to crash SC48 Pros: - super fast setup - small enough for 1 person to setup and teardown - takes up minimal floor real-estate, no outboard needed - sounds decent - more outputs - scene recall for saving all band settings - more processing power than you can shake a stick at, no more going behind the desk to patch inserts - rider friendly - 18 ch. ProTools recording (wish it was WAY more) - remote control SC48 Cons - Newbies to digital have a learning curve or may not be able to use it at all - layers - can't see all the processing at the same time - it's a computer, it can crash For me, the cons were too few to not go that route. So bye bye analog, it was fun while it lasted... Greg [/QUOTE]
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