Re: Martin MLA pricing?
Ego, that's a good point. On one festival we had the idea to make T-Shirts that say ''Aren't we all a bit headliner?''.
There are seamless changeovers, most of them I've done on good old analog equipment, split stage.
The last try on digital desks failed due to bad logistics.
Digital filters are as variant as analog filters used to be. At least on the consoles. I remember my old Mitec EX desk, where every channel had sort of different behaviour. Reminded me to mix with my ears and never look on the readings.
The good thing is, we are capable of confirming DSP EQ behaviour now and we should, in order to confirm that we do exactly what we intend to do in the system EQ.
Audio networks are another interesting tool in order to use massive output channel count, compared with what we did in analog systems. We can drive a lot of speakers seperately to get exactly what we want. This is easy now, with whatever digital transport protocol compared to a lot of copper.
To span back to the MLA system, it may be a tool to get more consistent audio in the venue. Somebody has to sell that idea to the client, as it's going to cost them more money.
I personally don't think that the end user doesn't care, although it may seem so from time to time.
