<div dir="ltr"><div>I like the A&H SQ line as well, but I'm also a fan of the Soundcraft Vi series as a teaching console. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Having the entire channel strip visible and laid out in a similar manner as an analog console, for every visible channel on the surface, is a very nice feature.</div><div><br></div><div>~joe<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 6:14 PM Jon Ares via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Howdy folks....<br>
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Long story short, our digital board went up in a considerable plume of<br>
smoke 5 minutes before curtain on our 2nd of 3 dress rehearsals of<br>
"Matilda" the other night.... thanks to some good Samaritans, we got<br>
our 20 wireless mics and 7-8 orch pit feeds run through a Midas M32<br>
and stage box, so we're running just fine now..... but as we weigh our<br>
options for the future, I thought I'd ask what boards people love,<br>
understanding we're a high school, doing live theatre (with musicals<br>
of 16-20 mics, plus orch and QLab), as well as other events, and a<br>
handful of mics for Jazz Bands' solos (and presenters with or without<br>
AV needs). We don't do gigantic rock and roll shows, but we like lots<br>
of sliders/surface to work with, rather than flipping through numerous<br>
small layers. We also have non-student engineers in sometimes, so we<br>
don't want to listen to TOO much crappe about what a piece of junk<br>
this thing is, and you really should have got a blah blah blah....<br>
<br>
We have a matrix of needs and wants, but in short, the new board (if<br>
we get one) will need to be easy to teach on, and hopefully something<br>
where that knowledge can transfer to other boards they're likely to<br>
encounter in the wild. Nothing that seems designed for studio<br>
engineers with PhDs (I'm looking at you, Yamaha), but also something<br>
that's not too old. (One of the concerns I have with the Midas M32...<br>
getting long in the tooth, and no touch screen... feels like 1998.)<br>
What are your favorites, and why? Bring on the flames....<br>
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- Jon<br>
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Jon Ares<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">_________________________<br>Joe Wilson, ATD/Sound<br>Indian River State College<br><br>Adding one more "me too" to the <br>collective internet consciousness.</div>