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<blockquote data-quote="Howard Tomlinson" data-source="post: 113525" data-attributes="member: 6460">Re: NAMMsales ranking:<a href="http://www.thomann.de/gb/prod_vrank~ncx.html?ar=308703" target="_blank">Product Sales Rank: Digital Mixing Desks - Thomann UK</a>although they don&#039;t publish actual quantity of sales and having had a play around with the interface, you get different results depending on how you find your way to their ranking system.the scribble strip missing is only an issue for those of us who have been spoiled with it. it isn&#039;t present on the qu16 - and there is your comparison - put the qu16 and the x32 producer next to each other - that&#039;s it&#039;s marketing point. i was with a professional musician on tuesday and reviewing the qu16 i advised him to go for that, as it was simpler to follow for him, less features but all the essentials, all 16 faders available to grab. versus the x32 producer, which only had 8 faders to grab (mixing as a musician) but much more feature rich set. if i had the money for a 2nd desk i would most definitely have the producer myself as a desk on the go for recording and working with small shows. the qu16 just happened to work for him coming from that 16 channel rack mount world. the producer and qu16 are both mixwiz replacements for the 21st century - when you view them that way, it becomes obvious where it&#039;s market is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Howard Tomlinson, post: 113525, member: 6460"] Re: NAMM sales ranking: [url=http://www.thomann.de/gb/prod_vrank~ncx.html?ar=308703]Product Sales Rank: Digital Mixing Desks - Thomann UK[/url] although they don't publish actual quantity of sales and having had a play around with the interface, you get different results depending on how you find your way to their ranking system. the scribble strip missing is only an issue for those of us who have been spoiled with it. it isn't present on the qu16 - and there is your comparison - put the qu16 and the x32 producer next to each other - that's it's marketing point. i was with a professional musician on tuesday and reviewing the qu16 i advised him to go for that, as it was simpler to follow for him, less features but all the essentials, all 16 faders available to grab. versus the x32 producer, which only had 8 faders to grab (mixing as a musician) but much more feature rich set. if i had the money for a 2nd desk i would most definitely have the producer myself as a desk on the go for recording and working with small shows. the qu16 just happened to work for him coming from that 16 channel rack mount world. the producer and qu16 are both mixwiz replacements for the 21st century - when you view them that way, it becomes obvious where it's market is. [/QUOTE]

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