Re: Presonus Studiolive Users - Reliability?
Infant mortality happens, and I see its potential as a fact of life for product at this price point quite possibly OEMed for Presonus. If it was a console for my personal day in and day out use, I would probably have returned to the Yamaha I know and trust. Many things about the use of the Presonus render it simpler than the Yamaha, as you know, and that's a central consideration here.
I'm pretty sure the default Qs are 0.55 and 1.5 for "high Q". For mixing music I'd personally like those to be more like 1 and 3. For doing a talking head event more like 1.5 and 4+. I could live with changing them globally for a scene, but it would be even better to be able to define them on a per-channel basis.
I assume that filters are defined via biquads, so it should be doable via something like picking Qs in the VSL console, having VSL recalculate the filter coefficients, and then repopulating the coefficient lookup tables in the desk. I put in a detailed feature request with the Presonus folk suggesting this manner of approach.
I've not played with the filter set yet, as there is a downstream DSP. I admit their filter approach is intriguing and I intend to put the results of their filter target system under analysis in SMAART when I get the console back from repair.
