"George Gleason" wrote in message

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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I see the concern, but I'm not sure its a problem that would bother
me very long, given that I know where the trim knobs are...

Not trying to be *smart* but this is a much more manageable
situation than the one with the channel eqs, and that one is not
exactly what I'd call a stopper.

Aside A neighboring church had a roof leak that flooded their SR32
and they replaced it with a SR32. My first reaction was "lucky roof
leak". So, I'm still open to reasons why I'd like to punch a hole in
my own church's roof!

much more a problem for live sound than recording

Hmmm.

The problem is , there is no way to see it(the buss overload) coming

True enough. Clipping indicators are IME nonexistent on Mackie consoles.

and when it hits you have to reduce all your trims screwing up your
monitor mixes(assuming monitor from house in a live rig)

Changing the trims the same amount will scale down the monitor mixes. I
guess one could quickly compensate by upping the gain on the aux send
masters.

I hated my GL3 for this and I hate the mackie for this as well
On my K2 / Lx7 I can run all trims(pfl) to zero all the faders to
zero and main out to zero

make setting up a mix under pressure of a 5 minute change over much
simplier

one does not HAVE to put up with quirky desks, there are decent units
available for basically the same money

I'm not sure that the gain structure of Mackie consoles is a quirk. It could
be a consequence of optimizing the console for situations where only a
subset of the inputs are used at any one time.

However, while most of the people who I've seen with SR32s overbought, that
might not be true for the majority.