[Les Cargill[_4_]]

Mike Rivers wrote:
On 4/7/2014 7:30 PM, Les Cargill wrote:
Maybe analog consoles go boutique, but digital
consoles are just weird. I would not want to try to do a live band with
one unless I knew - and had tested - that power failures didn't scramble
it's brain.

Analog consoles have been "boutique" for several years now, it's just
that there are some that are quite inexpensive. I was just talking to
the Allen & Heath folks at the NAB show today about the ZED-R16 and
GS-R24 studio consoles. Sales are pretty slow. Since they now have USB
multichannel I/O for the QU series of digital consoles, they might use
that to update the analog recording consoles, but there's no projected
date even as to when it will be put on the calendar.


also:

I can sympathize; it's partially my fault. I was very close to
buying an R16 but couldn't figure out where to put it. I used
the money I didn't spend on that console for another instrument.

If I am your customer you have a problem; my priorities are not in order.

The R16 is just a *heck* of a deal. I shoulda.

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Les Cargill