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<blockquote data-quote="Kim Watson" data-source="post: 19091" data-attributes="member: 41">Re: Soundcraft SI 2Hey Randy, Im an Si3 user, and its the same as the SI2 but less channels, I have commented a few times on the old PSW about it, could be worth a look at. The Si desks can work 2 ways you can have your channel strip come across the desk above the channels or you can set the master section in the center to display your eq and dynamics all the time. and keep your across the fader encoders as gain pots or access to HP/LP filters which is how I use the board. keeping your center section as your master channel. I have found I am faster to responding to things than the desk is. sometime pushing a fader up and waiting a second or 2 before the audio catches up. Sound quality. It sounds good. but its big and heavy in comparison to the Ilive and you dont get the digital multi core. With the Ilive having the brain and surface separate you can use cat5 as your multi leaving the brain at the stage end. also this allows you to easily add a 2nd surface or laptop to be running the monitor mix separately at stage end (common gain control for both desks mine you). This is how I encountered the iLive on a festival. The iLive was really easy to use, I had never used one, or even looked at one and was fine in mins of getting my hands on the surface. I have yet to set one up from scratch but that looks really easy to set up. favorite of the two would have to go to the iLive. Purely because I hooked my tablet up too it and was on stage with the bands during the changeover sorting out the monitors right next to them. Kim</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kim Watson, post: 19091, member: 41"] Re: Soundcraft SI 2 Hey Randy, Im an Si3 user, and its the same as the SI2 but less channels, I have commented a few times on the old PSW about it, could be worth a look at. The Si desks can work 2 ways you can have your channel strip come across the desk above the channels or you can set the master section in the center to display your eq and dynamics all the time. and keep your across the fader encoders as gain pots or access to HP/LP filters which is how I use the board. keeping your center section as your master channel. I have found I am faster to responding to things than the desk is. sometime pushing a fader up and waiting a second or 2 before the audio catches up. Sound quality. It sounds good. but its big and heavy in comparison to the Ilive and you dont get the digital multi core. With the Ilive having the brain and surface separate you can use cat5 as your multi leaving the brain at the stage end. also this allows you to easily add a 2nd surface or laptop to be running the monitor mix separately at stage end (common gain control for both desks mine you). This is how I encountered the iLive on a festival. The iLive was really easy to use, I had never used one, or even looked at one and was fine in mins of getting my hands on the surface. I have yet to set one up from scratch but that looks really easy to set up. favorite of the two would have to go to the iLive. Purely because I hooked my tablet up too it and was on stage with the bands during the changeover sorting out the monitors right next to them. Kim [/QUOTE]

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