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Vivien 🏳️⚧️@sb what's your favorite console? Do you prefer analog or digital? What's the best and the worst that happened during a show?
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@vivien
Great questions!
Favourite consoles are the #DiGiCo #SD7 (digital) and the #Midas #Heritage3000 (analogue). These consoles offer enormous flexibility, catering to almost any workflow for any mix situations.
Digital vs. Analogue? I choose BOTH! They are both great for their own reasons. In my ideal world, as much of the sound source should be as old-timey analogue as it can get - nice mics, tube pre/power amps. Combined with excellent ADCs and distribution technologies such as #dante to move the signal where you need it.
My favourite thing to happen during a show was doing an act called "The Comedic Strippers" - 4 male "chip'n dale" "strippers" - the act included a bit where the music is supposed to stop and a specific time but doesn't, and the actors are all yelling at me to cut the sound but I don't (as planned before hand). They managed to whip the audience up to the point where they were coming back to me demanding I cut the music!
My personal worst was doing a screening of Dirty Harry. I was given a brand new Bluray of the film. I put it in, checked it out, screened it, and only after the film was done did anyone mention the film I screened was NOT Dirty Harry, but rather Dirty Harry II: Magnum Force. No one said a word. For over 2 hours. Turned out there were TWO blurays included in the case - Dirty Harry the OG was hidden behind an advertisement in the case!
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@sb never used either console, but afaik they both are beasts in their own domain!
I think a good mix of analog and digital is a nice choice. Although in a live setup I think digital wins due to comfort (session recall, automation, remote control, digital stagebox and core), but then again, so much more can probably go wrong in the digital domain alone 😅
The two incidents you mentioned sound funny 😂
@vivien
You're exactly right about the digital domain being superior for if nothing else, the ability to recall enormous, complex sessions with the touch of a button.
When we program big musicals, we're talking about hundreds of cues, dozens of actors (and substitutes/alternates), sometimes hundreds of presets, around 100 inputs... Imagine trying to do that all analogue! NO THANKS 🙃