The church I'm working for is going through a renovation program/capitol campaign and technology upgrades are one of the key elements, including replacing the 12 year old Spirit Live 4-2 (ICK!) with a digital console.
Our budget is going to be around $10,000 and under (I might be able to fight for a few thousand more if the feature set is right) and despite the plethora of options now offered in this range I'm finding very few that can do what we need them to do. Mainly we want to be able to multi-track record, have a digital snake with at least 16 channels to add to the inputs up on stage (snake system is maxed out), and still have at least 12 inputs up in the booth for wireless and feeds from the new projector system. Ideally I'd like to be able to expand input capability even beyond this for future growth (one of the big reasons I'm not including the X32 in this search - I'm afraid that it will immediately be maxed out on inputs and we'll be facing the same issues we already are having come Christmas when we have a big production supported by a full band)
So far the best options seem to be either a fully expanded GLD system with a dante card (number of inputs could be a problem down the road, but it does look like it has an nice easy to use interface and I've had nothing but good experiences with its big brother iLive) or an LS9 system with dante card and SB168-es (I'm very well familiar with the LS9 and Yamaha mixers in general, although I'm not a huge fan of the work flow on this board compared to some of the new consoles that have come out over the past few years - does have a lot of inputs though).
As you can see there are pluses and minuses about each of these and therefore I'm curious about other options such as the Midas Pro1. For example, with the Pro1 is there a way to live multi-track record other than a DN9650 with a Dante card? I hate the idea of having to buy both a whole rack unit put a card just to do this. Any other mixers I'm not thinking of that would be recommended?
Thanks for the info!
Our budget is going to be around $10,000 and under (I might be able to fight for a few thousand more if the feature set is right) and despite the plethora of options now offered in this range I'm finding very few that can do what we need them to do. Mainly we want to be able to multi-track record, have a digital snake with at least 16 channels to add to the inputs up on stage (snake system is maxed out), and still have at least 12 inputs up in the booth for wireless and feeds from the new projector system. Ideally I'd like to be able to expand input capability even beyond this for future growth (one of the big reasons I'm not including the X32 in this search - I'm afraid that it will immediately be maxed out on inputs and we'll be facing the same issues we already are having come Christmas when we have a big production supported by a full band)
So far the best options seem to be either a fully expanded GLD system with a dante card (number of inputs could be a problem down the road, but it does look like it has an nice easy to use interface and I've had nothing but good experiences with its big brother iLive) or an LS9 system with dante card and SB168-es (I'm very well familiar with the LS9 and Yamaha mixers in general, although I'm not a huge fan of the work flow on this board compared to some of the new consoles that have come out over the past few years - does have a lot of inputs though).
As you can see there are pluses and minuses about each of these and therefore I'm curious about other options such as the Midas Pro1. For example, with the Pro1 is there a way to live multi-track record other than a DN9650 with a Dante card? I hate the idea of having to buy both a whole rack unit put a card just to do this. Any other mixers I'm not thinking of that would be recommended?
Thanks for the info!
