I’m having issues with the GLD80 in the theatre I work at. I had a show last friday , I was using it with an AR2412 and a AB168.
During soundcheck I was getting constant QOS errors / drops for both AR2412 and AB168, I switched to our redundant Cat5e cable but the problem was still there. I was also noticing the console was getting slow / not as snappy at changing layers and pages. And the screen now as some kind of issue too where it looks like an old CRT screen which I have never noticed before. I tried renbooting the console just before we opened doors to see if it would resolve the issue but they are still there.
Today I have fully reset and reflashed the 1.61 firmware onto the console and rebuild our template showfile from scratch to see if that would fix it but without any luck either.
Is there anything I could try to keep the desk running a little longer or should I concider replaceing very soon?
If it was me, I’d contact support ASAP and see if you can get an RMA. The GLD is a discontinued series but only recently so you should still be able to get parts.
I love our GLD and the little I’ve used the newer consoles from A&H, I can’t stand them. The new ones have fewer and fewer buttons and knobs; focusing mostly now on touch displays and menus. I’d personally want to keep the GLD as long as I could.
I’ve contacted them, hopefully they will get back to me soon. I’ve used the dlive and avantis quite a bit and really enjoyed the consoles, the only issue I have with the gld is the small channel input and matrixing / output usability. If not it’s a great console