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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Diack" data-source="post: 3278" data-attributes="member: 144">My first foray into digital desks (6 or 7 years ago) involved a Spirit 328. Went fine during the rehearsals and went into major continuous rebooting during a speech by our then prime minister. Major egg on face and I swore off them forever. Back to the dear old GL2200s (which have never put a foot wrong). Enough water had passed under the bridge that I thought I might dip my toe in the digital water again. Was lent a Presonus SL24/4/2 for a 4 day festival, for a &quot;try before you buy&quot;. Seemed easy enough to work, and by the second day I was really starting to enjoy all the inbuilt fruit these things offer. I reckon it sounded better than the old A&amp;H as well. I was ready to write out the cheque then and there. Third day, half way through soundcheck (thank fuck not later) it simply quit - no lights, no camera, no action. Mad scrabble and out comes the old A&amp;H AGAIN. Finished the show despondently. I had been so leery about this thing to start with, it dragged me in hook line &amp; sinker, then it dumped on me. Of course when I tried it out later in the workshop, it worked just fine. As a full time soldering iron jockey who only plays soundie for fun these days, I cannot justify spending the big bucks on a bigboy digital. Am I cursed to remain analog forever ?.M</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mike Diack, post: 3278, member: 144"] My first foray into digital desks (6 or 7 years ago) involved a Spirit 328. Went fine during the rehearsals and went into major continuous rebooting during a speech by our then prime minister. Major egg on face and I swore off them forever. Back to the dear old GL2200s (which have never put a foot wrong). Enough water had passed under the bridge that I thought I might dip my toe in the digital water again. Was lent a Presonus SL24/4/2 for a 4 day festival, for a "try before you buy". Seemed easy enough to work, and by the second day I was really starting to enjoy all the inbuilt fruit these things offer. I reckon it sounded better than the old A&H as well. I was ready to write out the cheque then and there. Third day, half way through soundcheck (thank fuck not later) it simply quit - no lights, no camera, no action. Mad scrabble and out comes the old A&H AGAIN. Finished the show despondently. I had been so leery about this thing to start with, it dragged me in hook line & sinker, then it dumped on me. Of course when I tried it out later in the workshop, it worked just fine. As a full time soldering iron jockey who only plays soundie for fun these days, I cannot justify spending the big bucks on a bigboy digital. Am I cursed to remain analog forever ?. M [/QUOTE]

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