I think this didn’t post??
If you want some good community feedback on the board look no further:
Someone mentioned the iLive doing cool peak metering stuff? Looks like they kept that concept
• The peak (Pk) LED’s on channels strips use multi-point sensing to display destructive peaking anywhere in the channel or mix.
• If a channel is peaking on a channel strip which is on an inactive layer, the layer selection key will illuminate in red.
Also, super cool. They got polarity vs phase right!
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After reading through the manual, some things I’m disappointed in
• Auxes are fixed pairs stereo/mono. The processing is all there to do 24x mono mixes/auxes; The lights for the buttons for SOF could be multicolor to show which ‘send’ you’re sending. (I don’t need and will not use this feature) [I think I get ‘why’ they did this, to limit the number of buttons on the board for SOF…]
• Wish the matrices were like Yamaha’s M7’s ‘super matrix’ meaning channels send to matrices…
• I wish it had LCR capabilities. They included a TON of features for routing channel(s) to stereo image
• I need my De-Esser and MBC to make this board perfect. Note: Frank(ie) (A&H’s spokes dude) has said they will be coming soon…
• I want compressors on the FX returns.
• GEQ on everything is pointless, I’d rather have more PEQ points on outputs…
• RTA/Spectrum on PEQ on CH…
• Metering should be assignable: pre HPF, Pre Fader and AFL (really more, like the direct out options should be available, but…)
• For whatever reason the background screen color (of the screenshots in the manual) reminds me of windows 95… I know you have to start somewhere and it might not even be that color in real life…but ugh, It’s pretty ugly for such a nice looking board haha.
• Ducking…
Burried features I’m kinda excited about?
• Talkback is a channel…wut you can have 49ch’s!
• Scene management is top notch! [Scenes and shows]
• Looks like compressor knee rate is variable, that’s always nice.
• Direct Out level is +10 capable; good for lots of things…dante!
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Software is still very new, so I’m sure we’ll get plenty of updates over the next 1.5yrs; then maybe 1 or two more in another 2yrs.
If I were A&H I’d replace GLD with this board and re-tool my factories.
The extra extra good news is most of these are already planned
My xmas gift to myself haha.