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Re: How important is VCA capability on your mixer?This all depends on how you are using groups. If you are using them for processing (e.g. compression) or zone feeds, VCAs simply aren't a substitute. If you are using groups simply for a logical grouping, then VCAs do have certain advantages. Ideally, you'll have both, but given that VCAs are primarily a convenience feature, while groups allow you to do some interesting things with routing, if I had to pick only one, it'd be a group. Oddly enough, this seems to match what I've seen on the market (I don't know of any colsoles with VCA groups that don't also have audio groups).
Re: How important is VCA capability on your mixer?
This all depends on how you are using groups. If you are using them for processing (e.g. compression) or zone feeds, VCAs simply aren't a substitute. If you are using groups simply for a logical grouping, then VCAs do have certain advantages. Ideally, you'll have both, but given that VCAs are primarily a convenience feature, while groups allow you to do some interesting things with routing, if I had to pick only one, it'd be a group. Oddly enough, this seems to match what I've seen on the market (I don't know of any colsoles with VCA groups that don't also have audio groups).
