[Ardour-Users] Ardour 2.8.5 released

[John Rigg]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:13:56PM -0500, Al Thompson wrote:
> John Rigg wrote:
> > I think you'd have a hard time convincing most live sound engineers that
> > a digital system running on commodity computer gear was reliable enough
> > for mixing live gigs. In a live situation there's no room at all for
> > crashes or other problems.
> >   
> 
> I'd never use a digital console live, period.  If anything else crashes,
> you can get around it, but if a mixing console crashes, the show stops.
> 
> Add to that my serious preference for a "real" mixer, with faders,
> dedicated knobs, etc, and the digital mixers have nothing to interest me.

Analogue is still my preference. Last summer I used a digital mixer (an M7CL)
on FOH for the first time since a bad experience with an 02R about ten
years ago. After avoiding them for so long I was actually pleasantly
surprised and found it to be quite useable (but still not as easy to use as
a decent analogue mixer).

It's hard to overstate the case for absolute reliability. Standing at a
dead mixing desk in the middle of several thousand boozed-up metal fans is
not my idea of fun.

John