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<blockquote data-quote="Dan Mortensen" data-source="post: 89746" data-attributes="member: 2826"><p>Appreciative Comments about X32</p><p></p><p>Sorry for all the posts in a row from me tonight. There's going to be one more later, too.</p><p></p><p>As described earlier in this thread, a couple of months ago my company provided all the sound systems for a bluegrass festival here for the 17th year, and this year made the switch to X32 consoles at all stages, three with both FOH and Monitor using 2x S16, and one doing Mons from FOH using analog snake (7 consoles plus 2 spares).</p><p></p><p>I received a note today from Fred Forssell, who owns Forssell Technologies and from what I've heard designs and sells some pretty out-there high end digital audio stuff. (I'm not at all in that market so I'm oblivious.) He is also a pretty huge bluegrass fan, and has been coming to the festival for quite a few years doing archival recordings for them, and I don't know what else happens to the recordings. He has done various things over the years and at different stages to get his signal, from doing splits on the mics to taking channel outs from the console to taking a mix off the console. </p><p></p><p>Apparently one of his recordings this year was made into a video and our client asked him about the audio, and he kindly included me in the reply.</p><p></p><p>Here is the X32-relevant paragraph of his first email to our client, followed by a part of a paragraph when he responded to my request for permission to quote him here:</p><p></p><p>"The audio was a quick rough mix from the multi-track audio I recorded. In hind-sight, Dan's switch to the Berhinger X32 mixers on all stages worked out extremely well for me. I just recorded everything (all 32 channels) into my MacBook Pro using a firewire connection to each FOH console. None of the effects or level changes done by FOH mixers effected my audio. I was able to EQ, Compress, or Limit as I needed to, rather that having to "undo" whatever the FOH guys were doing to get things to sound good in the room. It worked really, really well. As you know, I was more that a bit apprehensive about Dan's switch to the X32 going into the festival. I now feel that, from my prospective, it was a very good and positive move."</p><p></p><p>"All in all, I thought the preamp/AD combo was quite useable and had no complaints or difficulties getting reasonably good sounding mixes from the recordings. The only thing I questioned was some things I heard in the room during performances. Sometimes, I thought I could hear some strange artifacts that (I guess) could be a result of channel EQ performance. Don't know that for sure, just guessing. Most of the time it sounded quite good to me."</p><p></p><p>So congrats to Uli and the crew for building such a cool, affordable mixer. I thought you would like to hear appreciation from a pretty astute source and not just from those of us here in the choir.</p><p></p><p>Dan</p><p></p><p>PS We decided beforehand to use the VEQ on all inputs, as we couldn't hear the effect of the straight parametric. FWIW I am very acquainted with other parametric eq's and have no problem hearing them, but the X32 sounds "better" in VEQ even though the analyzer trace doesn't look as pretty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dan Mortensen, post: 89746, member: 2826"] Appreciative Comments about X32 Sorry for all the posts in a row from me tonight. There's going to be one more later, too. As described earlier in this thread, a couple of months ago my company provided all the sound systems for a bluegrass festival here for the 17th year, and this year made the switch to X32 consoles at all stages, three with both FOH and Monitor using 2x S16, and one doing Mons from FOH using analog snake (7 consoles plus 2 spares). I received a note today from Fred Forssell, who owns Forssell Technologies and from what I've heard designs and sells some pretty out-there high end digital audio stuff. (I'm not at all in that market so I'm oblivious.) He is also a pretty huge bluegrass fan, and has been coming to the festival for quite a few years doing archival recordings for them, and I don't know what else happens to the recordings. He has done various things over the years and at different stages to get his signal, from doing splits on the mics to taking channel outs from the console to taking a mix off the console. Apparently one of his recordings this year was made into a video and our client asked him about the audio, and he kindly included me in the reply. Here is the X32-relevant paragraph of his first email to our client, followed by a part of a paragraph when he responded to my request for permission to quote him here: "The audio was a quick rough mix from the multi-track audio I recorded. In hind-sight, Dan's switch to the Berhinger X32 mixers on all stages worked out extremely well for me. I just recorded everything (all 32 channels) into my MacBook Pro using a firewire connection to each FOH console. None of the effects or level changes done by FOH mixers effected my audio. I was able to EQ, Compress, or Limit as I needed to, rather that having to "undo" whatever the FOH guys were doing to get things to sound good in the room. It worked really, really well. As you know, I was more that a bit apprehensive about Dan's switch to the X32 going into the festival. I now feel that, from my prospective, it was a very good and positive move." "All in all, I thought the preamp/AD combo was quite useable and had no complaints or difficulties getting reasonably good sounding mixes from the recordings. The only thing I questioned was some things I heard in the room during performances. Sometimes, I thought I could hear some strange artifacts that (I guess) could be a result of channel EQ performance. Don't know that for sure, just guessing. Most of the time it sounded quite good to me." So congrats to Uli and the crew for building such a cool, affordable mixer. I thought you would like to hear appreciation from a pretty astute source and not just from those of us here in the choir. Dan PS We decided beforehand to use the VEQ on all inputs, as we couldn't hear the effect of the straight parametric. FWIW I am very acquainted with other parametric eq's and have no problem hearing them, but the X32 sounds "better" in VEQ even though the analyzer trace doesn't look as pretty. [/QUOTE]
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