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<blockquote data-quote="Christian Tepfer" data-source="post: 41254" data-attributes="member: 108">Re: Is iLive the biggest/best digital for the money?I would say iLive is the best bang for the buck in the low-mid budget class at the moment in my opinion. Having the options to run MADI or Dante recordings, using PL remotes for personal monitoring and wireless online editor software on Windows, MacOS and iOS is not bad at all in that class.Having 2 surfaces as a FOH/Mon couple requires 2 mixracks with either analog split or 2 ACE option cards for conneting (the second mixrack can be a iDR16 then but one desk is gain master, the other desk falls back to digital trim, not really usable for all situations).I would like to see better near-fader level indication (dual led bars for showing left and right level for stereo channels and mixes, compressor gain reduction and gate closed/open, like the PM5D does really well), faster touch screen brain, etc. but that would raise the price, maybe something for the modular series, off topic here, because we are talking about a quite different price tag then.Overall, there are some really nice options in that price range, I like the Vi1 and the short hands on I got on the Pro2c. The M7CL is still the work horse. I don&#039;t like it much but I can get good results there.Regarding riders, some acts carry consoles, some specify one console (most of the time NOT an iLive and most of the time the rider is hard), some accept anything that&#039;s usable (I call them soft riders). So it depends on what type of riders you get mostly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Christian Tepfer, post: 41254, member: 108"] Re: Is iLive the biggest/best digital for the money? I would say iLive is the best bang for the buck in the low-mid budget class at the moment in my opinion. Having the options to run MADI or Dante recordings, using PL remotes for personal monitoring and wireless online editor software on Windows, MacOS and iOS is not bad at all in that class. Having 2 surfaces as a FOH/Mon couple requires 2 mixracks with either analog split or 2 ACE option cards for conneting (the second mixrack can be a iDR16 then but one desk is gain master, the other desk falls back to digital trim, not really usable for all situations). I would like to see better near-fader level indication (dual led bars for showing left and right level for stereo channels and mixes, compressor gain reduction and gate closed/open, like the PM5D does really well), faster touch screen brain, etc. but that would raise the price, maybe something for the modular series, off topic here, because we are talking about a quite different price tag then. Overall, there are some really nice options in that price range, I like the Vi1 and the short hands on I got on the Pro2c. The M7CL is still the work horse. I don't like it much but I can get good results there. Regarding riders, some acts carry consoles, some specify one console (most of the time NOT an iLive and most of the time the rider is hard), some accept anything that's usable (I call them soft riders). So it depends on what type of riders you get mostly. [/QUOTE]

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