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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Gibson" data-source="post: 116329" data-attributes="member: 1946"><p>Over 12 months with the X32</p><p></p><p>Having now had our X32 and S16 for well over 12 months, being used every week it's time to give a quick update on reliability. We had one sticky fader (it stuck two or three times) on a linked pair in the first few weeks. It's not done it since. When I posted here on the issue, Kiddiminster (UK service centre) phoned me up to discuss the problem within hours. They offered to look over the desk as we are only about 45 minutes drive from them. Now that's what I call pro-active support. I did not take them up on the offer as I thought we'd see if it persisted. The whole thing has worked flawlessly thereafter. No problems with static on cat6 STP or any of those issues I've seen referred to here.</p><p></p><p>I use stage flexible CAT5 utp for the P16s. It's nice and flexible, not like normal CAT5.... and yes we are using UTP not STP for this and it's not caused any discernible problems. We have to put the P16s and associated cable away after every service as the space is used for other things so it needs to uncoil and and lay flat quickly. I get the required lengths made up from an eBay supplier who posts next day.</p><p></p><p>Ours is a fixed installation in a church environment. We use the iPAD for setup and we've never had any wifi or connectivity issues. I am using a 5Ghz wifi rather than 2.4Ghz as I can see no other 5Ghz wifi to interfere. The wifi does have other traffic on it and is not dedicated to the X32 to iPad. However there is very little traffic, a heating controller, a couple of VoiP phones, a few PCs etc. I'm using a cheap Netgear WAP and I have tried three different WAPs all worked fine. The WAP has 4 LAN ports and I connect the X32 to one of these. The X32 and the iPAD have been set to have static IP addresses, the WAP also has a static IP address.</p><p></p><p>The X32 is not on a UPS but then we have pretty stable power in a small rural town in England. I've never experienced a desk 'lock-up'. The desk gets about three hours use on a Saturday and about 5 hours use on a Sunday plus odd things during the week.</p><p></p><p>We use about 20 input channels including up to 7 radio mics. We provide 4 monitor channels as well as P16s. There are also feeds to the 'hearing loop', foyer, recording system and other locations. We use the AES3 output to feed the digital recorder. This is edited later to create the podacast.</p><p></p><p>We have to mix for different band configurations each week as different musicians are scheduled. This ranges from woodwind like the bassoon (wish I could work out how best to mic the bassoon)/flute to brass, strings, electric guitars, bass, acoustic guitars, keys, vocalists, worship leader etc.</p><p></p><p>The bass guitar is routed direct to the desk and then routed back to the back line amp. This means we can control the overall volume of the bass, give the bass guitarist foldback and not have to use the rather weedy foh speakers for the bass.</p><p></p><p>I've done a number of full 32 track recordings to Reaper via the firewire port to a Macbook and this also worked without problem.</p><p></p><p>As a number of different people operate the desk each week, it took us some time to get to grips with saving our personal configurations and get a proper regime in place to make sure that one person did not accidentally overwrite somebody else's favourite set-up and yet any new additional 'perfect' EQ say was made available to all. Is there such a thing as the 'perfect' EQ? Or is the 'perfect' EQ in the ears of the listener?</p><p></p><p>So to conclude, for us, the X32 set-up has operated flawlessly and we are still eating how to best use the many features this desk offers. I'm looking forward to V2.x of the firmware but I'll not be upgrading until the iPad X32 Edit version is updated as well and all the bugs have been ironed out.</p><p></p><p>Mike</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike Gibson, post: 116329, member: 1946"] Over 12 months with the X32 Having now had our X32 and S16 for well over 12 months, being used every week it's time to give a quick update on reliability. We had one sticky fader (it stuck two or three times) on a linked pair in the first few weeks. It's not done it since. When I posted here on the issue, Kiddiminster (UK service centre) phoned me up to discuss the problem within hours. They offered to look over the desk as we are only about 45 minutes drive from them. Now that's what I call pro-active support. I did not take them up on the offer as I thought we'd see if it persisted. The whole thing has worked flawlessly thereafter. No problems with static on cat6 STP or any of those issues I've seen referred to here. I use stage flexible CAT5 utp for the P16s. It's nice and flexible, not like normal CAT5.... and yes we are using UTP not STP for this and it's not caused any discernible problems. We have to put the P16s and associated cable away after every service as the space is used for other things so it needs to uncoil and and lay flat quickly. I get the required lengths made up from an eBay supplier who posts next day. Ours is a fixed installation in a church environment. We use the iPAD for setup and we've never had any wifi or connectivity issues. I am using a 5Ghz wifi rather than 2.4Ghz as I can see no other 5Ghz wifi to interfere. The wifi does have other traffic on it and is not dedicated to the X32 to iPad. However there is very little traffic, a heating controller, a couple of VoiP phones, a few PCs etc. I'm using a cheap Netgear WAP and I have tried three different WAPs all worked fine. The WAP has 4 LAN ports and I connect the X32 to one of these. The X32 and the iPAD have been set to have static IP addresses, the WAP also has a static IP address. The X32 is not on a UPS but then we have pretty stable power in a small rural town in England. I've never experienced a desk 'lock-up'. The desk gets about three hours use on a Saturday and about 5 hours use on a Sunday plus odd things during the week. We use about 20 input channels including up to 7 radio mics. We provide 4 monitor channels as well as P16s. There are also feeds to the 'hearing loop', foyer, recording system and other locations. We use the AES3 output to feed the digital recorder. This is edited later to create the podacast. We have to mix for different band configurations each week as different musicians are scheduled. This ranges from woodwind like the bassoon (wish I could work out how best to mic the bassoon)/flute to brass, strings, electric guitars, bass, acoustic guitars, keys, vocalists, worship leader etc. The bass guitar is routed direct to the desk and then routed back to the back line amp. This means we can control the overall volume of the bass, give the bass guitarist foldback and not have to use the rather weedy foh speakers for the bass. I've done a number of full 32 track recordings to Reaper via the firewire port to a Macbook and this also worked without problem. As a number of different people operate the desk each week, it took us some time to get to grips with saving our personal configurations and get a proper regime in place to make sure that one person did not accidentally overwrite somebody else's favourite set-up and yet any new additional 'perfect' EQ say was made available to all. Is there such a thing as the 'perfect' EQ? Or is the 'perfect' EQ in the ears of the listener? So to conclude, for us, the X32 set-up has operated flawlessly and we are still eating how to best use the many features this desk offers. I'm looking forward to V2.x of the firmware but I'll not be upgrading until the iPad X32 Edit version is updated as well and all the bugs have been ironed out. Mike [/QUOTE]
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