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<blockquote data-quote="TJ Cornish" data-source="post: 101021" data-attributes="member: 162">Re: Sign of the times. I just bought this for $1,300.Do clueless, untrained people often need to understand gate side-chaining, multiple input patching, and the like?&nbsp; If you&#039;re comparing an SD-9 to an Ashly LX-308B then you&#039;ve got a point, I guess. Most of the newbies I work with would be more intimidated on a PM4K than a mid-range digital for basic turn the fader up and down mixing. The war has been over for a long time. Whether there are some advantages to analog (there are) is not really relevant, as no one will likely ever again build large format analog consoles (other than APB, which seems the holdout), since fewer and fewer people will be willing to invest the cartage, weight, setup effort and general hassle of 2000lbs of FOH when there are perfectly good, perfectly musical sounding and much more functional and affordable digital options. Im sure Rupert Neve&#039;s grand kid will build some esoteric desk for some studio in 2035, but the rest of us will have put the adding-machines away.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TJ Cornish, post: 101021, member: 162"] Re: Sign of the times. I just bought this for $1,300. Do clueless, untrained people often need to understand gate side-chaining, multiple input patching, and the like? If you're comparing an SD-9 to an Ashly LX-308B then you've got a point, I guess. Most of the newbies I work with would be more intimidated on a PM4K than a mid-range digital for basic turn the fader up and down mixing. The war has been over for a long time. Whether there are some advantages to analog (there are) is not really relevant, as no one will likely ever again build large format analog consoles (other than APB, which seems the holdout), since fewer and fewer people will be willing to invest the cartage, weight, setup effort and general hassle of 2000lbs of FOH when there are perfectly good, perfectly musical sounding and much more functional and affordable digital options. Im sure Rupert Neve's grand kid will build some esoteric desk for some studio in 2035, but the rest of us will have put the adding-machines away. [/QUOTE]

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