Yamaha M7CL
Gavin Ramsay
<www.yamahaproaudio.com/products/mixers/m7cl/index.html>
I'm waiting on pricing info, but it looks mighty interesting. I could
live with only 48KHz if the price is right. Oh, and as long as it
dosen't sound like a dog of course ;)
Gavin
Dan Mills
I had a look at PLASA, it's a little weird!
16 Aux, LCR (of various sorts), usual builtin effects/eq.
Fader per channel, so thats good, but the channel controls are NOT all in a
line, with some forming a second row except where the screen (and most of
the channel strip controls are).
I think they have shaved the DSP power to hit the price point as (for
example) the 31 band graphics can only have 15 bands in use at any one
time. Not that that should be a problem!
Ohh yea, the group of eight faders in the centre can be assigned to any set
of 8 channels or to VCA or masters.
It just looks weird and I could not see a visiting engineer being at all
happy quickly. On the other hand, for the right application, I guess it
would be a problem solver.
The rather alpha release A&H board is interesting, ethersound from a on
stage rack plus IO cards in the console itself for good flexibility,
software was still a little buggy and the console sticks up far enough to
make seeing over the top difficult if mixing from a balcony or the gods.
I wouldn't want to buy one for a year however as I hate being the V1.0 lab
rat.
The on stage hardware looks solid (even if they really should have put a UPS
or built in backup battery in there), but I am not convinced by the control
surface on this one yet.
I also had a quick demo on the Digi Venue, weird control setup, and why did
they have to make each channel strip about two inches across!??
Possibly interesting if you want protools integration, but doesn't (to me
anyway) have the 'figure the basics in a minute with no manual' factor that
say a PM-5D or any old school analogue console has.
Anyway, this is turning into a what was interesting at PLASA post...
Regards, Dan.
Tim S Kemp
48khz max will have reduced the price as less DSP required. Touch screen
reduces the number of components by a big number.
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Arny Krueger
news:1h2w42b.buxehfj0l96oN%g...@herringbone.org
One source puts the price in the DM2000 range:
FinnHits
<dmi...@spamblock.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>I think they have shaved the DSP power to hit the price point as (for
>example) the 31 band graphics can only have 15 bands in use at any one
>time. Not that that should be a problem!
Actually, they have two different GEQ units: one is mono 31-band, the
other (called Flex15) is dual mono (linkable to stereo) 31-band with
15 adjustable bands (freely selectable by user). You can have up to 8
units (8 Flex15 units gives you 16 mono GEQs) active.
Tim S Kemp
And anyway - with 4 band parametric onj each input and output why would ou
need that many 31 band graphics?