I am highly considering the Pro 1, hoping for a demo from our rep shortly. I didn't want to start another thread about Pro 1 but have a specific use question for you, Brian, or anyone who has one already. Tell me if you think this makes sense.
We do a bunch of festival arena events in which we are providing a racks n stacks PA for a number of artists with their own consoles, as well as a Profile or SC48 of our own for the openers. We invariably are patching at least two, if not three or four FOH consoles into our system. We also require an additional small console for videos, music playback, and MCs during changeovers while the Avid desks load show files, band engineers twiddle knobs, etc etc.
We also are looking for a way to convert to Dante at FOH. The KT DN9650 Network Bridge can convert from the AES550 to Dante, so that works there, right?
So, we would use the Pro 1 as a big FOH matrix mixer, and as a way to convert to Dante. An analog to digital "MixSwitch". It also would have the extra inputs for MC, playback, video, etc.
The Lab Gruppen LM44s could do this task but wouldn't be much less expensive as you would need at least two, if not three of them. And the Pro 1 would be a console that would have other uses at other events. Put a stage box on stage and you could even do your acoustic openers and DJs.
Seems smart to me, what am I missing?
Will band engineers be cool plugging their console into a Pro 1 assuming it stays digital from that point on? I never asked with our LS9-16 since, rightly or wrongly, I knew what the answer was
We used to just swap inputs on our system processors.
Will I be able to use the AES input into the desk from the artist consoles? Should I provide a clock for that or is AES happy without? If I have to clock, I would doubt that every artist engineer would be cool with us clocking their console, and I would guess if getting a feed from multiple console that I would need an external clock.
Sorry for all the questions
I have little experience with AES, we typically use CobraNet for our other rig. Maybe Jason from Midas could chime in regarding the AES stuff...
Thanks,
Jason