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<blockquote data-quote="harrybrilljr" data-source="post: 117469" data-attributes="member: 103"><p>Re: Fine Print</p><p></p><p>I got this email this morning and spent about 4 hours reading all the info on 3 different sites, and watching all the videos. This is MY console. I love the SD9 but it's a lot more money. 99% of my work could be done on a QL1 with a stage box or 2 and a lake card installed. The QL5 is preferred do to the fader count, but I can do it on the 16. I like this MUCH better than the CL series. My ideal channel count for 99% of my shows is about 35 or 36 but I can easily get away with 32 on most of them. The CL5 with stage boxes will do my band shows so I wouldn't have to rent a 5D anymore. Keeping in mind these are all corpie shows. I have to HEAR the desk to decide for rock and roll, but I must say I have never had a show go down because I was mixing on a 5D instead of something else and now that I have the Waves Rack, if I was touring with this, I would just buy what I wanted for the waves. The other thing about this desk, is Dante is on the inserts. I do not know if it's on all the inserts but I assume it is. That is not the case as of yet on the CL. THis means I could use Dante with the waves rack assuming low enough latency, and I could use dante with the lake card. It's like Yamaha listened to all my gripes and complaints over the years and packaged it all up in this desk. They even got rid of that stupid WHEEL on the LS9. I hate that wheel. Touch and Turn is ideal. The only digital desk I evern felt truly comfortable mixing on before this was the InnovaSon. I trained many BEs in 5 minutes to mix on that desk. It's hard to program but easy to mix on. Now Yamaha has finally exceeded that ease of use.</p><p></p><p>Edit, I forgot to mention it has a 16 channel Dugan built in!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="harrybrilljr, post: 117469, member: 103"] Re: Fine Print I got this email this morning and spent about 4 hours reading all the info on 3 different sites, and watching all the videos. This is MY console. I love the SD9 but it's a lot more money. 99% of my work could be done on a QL1 with a stage box or 2 and a lake card installed. The QL5 is preferred do to the fader count, but I can do it on the 16. I like this MUCH better than the CL series. My ideal channel count for 99% of my shows is about 35 or 36 but I can easily get away with 32 on most of them. The CL5 with stage boxes will do my band shows so I wouldn't have to rent a 5D anymore. Keeping in mind these are all corpie shows. I have to HEAR the desk to decide for rock and roll, but I must say I have never had a show go down because I was mixing on a 5D instead of something else and now that I have the Waves Rack, if I was touring with this, I would just buy what I wanted for the waves. The other thing about this desk, is Dante is on the inserts. I do not know if it's on all the inserts but I assume it is. That is not the case as of yet on the CL. THis means I could use Dante with the waves rack assuming low enough latency, and I could use dante with the lake card. It's like Yamaha listened to all my gripes and complaints over the years and packaged it all up in this desk. They even got rid of that stupid WHEEL on the LS9. I hate that wheel. Touch and Turn is ideal. The only digital desk I evern felt truly comfortable mixing on before this was the InnovaSon. I trained many BEs in 5 minutes to mix on that desk. It's hard to program but easy to mix on. Now Yamaha has finally exceeded that ease of use. Edit, I forgot to mention it has a 16 channel Dugan built in! [/QUOTE]
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