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<blockquote data-quote="Ivan Beaver" data-source="post: 72653" data-attributes="member: 30">Re: Easy digital mixerHOWEVER consider this-and this comes from REAL WORLD experience.Let&#039;s say you have a digital console with a digital snake as part of the &quot;system&quot; in an install.&nbsp; One part of it dies.&nbsp; Well unless there are replacement parts around-the whole event is shot.But having an analog snake and a digital console-if the console dies-you can grab any &#039;ol analog (or other digital console that has analog in and out) and get by.An analog snake only usually dies a channel at a time (unless somebody has large cable cutters-yes that has happened or somebody saws through it slowly with a hacksaw blade-also seen happen), while a digital snake can quickly fail as a single unit.High tech gear is great-as long as it is working-but when it fails-it tends to fail much more dramatically than older analog gear.Just something to consider.When I had my old analog cell phone-I could almost never lost a call-and could still talk with a lot of background noise.&nbsp; you can even hold a conversation when the noise is almost higher than the speech (not easy but it can be done).&nbsp; While digital makes it totally useless when the signal gets low.Fancier is not always better-just sayin&#039;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ivan Beaver, post: 72653, member: 30"] Re: Easy digital mixer HOWEVER consider this-and this comes from REAL WORLD experience. Let's say you have a digital console with a digital snake as part of the "system" in an install. One part of it dies. Well unless there are replacement parts around-the whole event is shot. But having an analog snake and a digital console-if the console dies-you can grab any 'ol analog (or other digital console that has analog in and out) and get by. An analog snake only usually dies a channel at a time (unless somebody has large cable cutters-yes that has happened or somebody saws through it slowly with a hacksaw blade-also seen happen), while a digital snake can quickly fail as a single unit. High tech gear is great-as long as it is working-but when it fails-it tends to fail much more dramatically than older analog gear. Just something to consider. When I had my old analog cell phone-I could almost never lost a call-and could still talk with a lot of background noise. you can even hold a conversation when the noise is almost higher than the speech (not easy but it can be done). While digital makes it totally useless when the signal gets low. Fancier is not always better-just sayin' [/QUOTE]

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