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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Barracato" data-source="post: 129813" data-attributes="member: 24">Re: New Midas M32 ConsoleI can just see my self walking up at a street festival and saying &quot;Hi I am Jay. I am the FOH tech for (insert band name). I hope I have not made you uncomfortable about having me mix on your rig. I see you have brought a shiny new x32. I have found some limitations in the surface when mixing on it in the past. I hope you have saved your show because i plan on rerouting any dca&#039;s you have and redefining your udk&#039;s to do what I want.&quot;And by the way on an ls9 you still have the mix button to directly put any mix on the faders without having to make sure that mix is the top bank of faders before selecting, and on a venue/sc48 there isn&#039;t any need to put it on the faders in the first place. Select the channel and duck the send with the mouse and adjust the eq with the encoders or vice versa. You can do both things at once.Back in the 90&#039;s I worked in a chemistry lab and the lead researcher owned a Mercedes 380sl convertible. A couple of times a year he would go overseas for a month at a time and he would leave the car with me because he wanted it run on a regular basis.I hated driving that car. I just wasn&#039;t comfortable driving that car. The seat was too low making the angle with the pedals and the steering wheel off kilter.That doesn&#039;t mean it was badly engineered. That doesn&#039;t mean it didn&#039;t work exactly as engineered. It means I didn&#039;t like it.Fortunately there were other cars available that meet the same general function that I didn&#039;t hate.Different strokes for different folks.And it is very apparent to me that my opinion isn&#039;t going to be changed by internet conversation. Maybe my opinion will be changed down the road by some aha moment, but right now it remains, when I walk up to the mixer I know I can get the exact show/mix that I want but I am not going to enjoy doing it.Sent from my DROID RAZR HD</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jay Barracato, post: 129813, member: 24"] Re: New Midas M32 Console I can just see my self walking up at a street festival and saying "Hi I am Jay. I am the FOH tech for (insert band name). I hope I have not made you uncomfortable about having me mix on your rig. I see you have brought a shiny new x32. I have found some limitations in the surface when mixing on it in the past. I hope you have saved your show because i plan on rerouting any dca's you have and redefining your udk's to do what I want." And by the way on an ls9 you still have the mix button to directly put any mix on the faders without having to make sure that mix is the top bank of faders before selecting, and on a venue/sc48 there isn't any need to put it on the faders in the first place. Select the channel and duck the send with the mouse and adjust the eq with the encoders or vice versa. You can do both things at once. Back in the 90's I worked in a chemistry lab and the lead researcher owned a Mercedes 380sl convertible. A couple of times a year he would go overseas for a month at a time and he would leave the car with me because he wanted it run on a regular basis. I hated driving that car. I just wasn't comfortable driving that car. The seat was too low making the angle with the pedals and the steering wheel off kilter. That doesn't mean it was badly engineered. That doesn't mean it didn't work exactly as engineered. It means I didn't like it. Fortunately there were other cars available that meet the same general function that I didn't hate. Different strokes for different folks. And it is very apparent to me that my opinion isn't going to be changed by internet conversation. Maybe my opinion will be changed down the road by some aha moment, but right now it remains, when I walk up to the mixer I know I can get the exact show/mix that I want but I am not going to enjoy doing it. Sent from my DROID RAZR HD [/QUOTE]

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