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<blockquote data-quote="David Elsbury" data-source="post: 10708" data-attributes="member: 1247">Hi allI work for a corporate AV company with a couple of GB4, a couple of GB8, and a handful of smaller Soundcraft and A+H mixers. Looking to try and convince them to go digital, and looking at the Soundcraft range. Would appreciate your comments, on what may be a slightly jumbled collection of my thoughts.Thinking of suggesting they initially buy 2x Performer 1&#039;s. One with a 32ch stagebox and one with a 16ch stagebox. Both fitted out with a CAT5 MADI card. Possibly look at getting a DANTE card for one of them - we run a few Shure ULX-D which offer DANTE out.Then in the future looking at either a VI4 or a VI3000 with another stagebox, and a MADI card.So my questions...Should I keep both console packages the same? I.E both with 32ch stagebox? That way no matter which console is out on the job, it&#039;s not the &quot;wrong one&quot; if I suddenly need the other stagebox?The DMX functionality... really just need it to drive a stage wash and change the colour of some LED uplights. Should be OK for this?VI4 or VI3000. What is the better console? VI3000 has DANTE onboard. Can the optical MADI port on the VI3000 do a stagebox? I could run one stagebox over optical and one over CAT5 for large shows.Small to medium shows are do-able on the Perfomer 1. Should I get Performer 2&#039;s instead? The only concern I have, is that the Performer 2 isn&#039;t totally different (from a management point of view) to the VI4 or VI3000.Thanks heaps <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />David</blockquote>

[QUOTE="David Elsbury, post: 10708, member: 1247"] Hi all I work for a corporate AV company with a couple of GB4, a couple of GB8, and a handful of smaller Soundcraft and A+H mixers. Looking to try and convince them to go digital, and looking at the Soundcraft range. Would appreciate your comments, on what may be a slightly jumbled collection of my thoughts. Thinking of suggesting they initially buy 2x Performer 1's. One with a 32ch stagebox and one with a 16ch stagebox. Both fitted out with a CAT5 MADI card. Possibly look at getting a DANTE card for one of them - we run a few Shure ULX-D which offer DANTE out. Then in the future looking at either a VI4 or a VI3000 with another stagebox, and a MADI card. So my questions... Should I keep both console packages the same? I.E both with 32ch stagebox? That way no matter which console is out on the job, it's not the "wrong one" if I suddenly need the other stagebox? The DMX functionality... really just need it to drive a stage wash and change the colour of some LED uplights. Should be OK for this? VI4 or VI3000. What is the better console? VI3000 has DANTE onboard. Can the optical MADI port on the VI3000 do a stagebox? I could run one stagebox over optical and one over CAT5 for large shows. Small to medium shows are do-able on the Perfomer 1. Should I get Performer 2's instead? The only concern I have, is that the Performer 2 isn't totally different (from a management point of view) to the VI4 or VI3000. Thanks heaps :-) David [/QUOTE]

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