[Ardour-Users] Ardour 2.8.5 released

[John Rigg]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:16:56AM +0100, Arnold Krille wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 January 2010 10:56:31 John Rigg wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yeah, standing at a digital mixing desk with the blue screen of death and 
> simply rebooting it is so much more embarrassing than standing in front of an 
> analogue mixing desk where half the channels are on fire from burnt capacitors
> and the other half got soaked with beer from some drunk metal fans and there 
> is no second console for backup.

If you're lucky the beer will put out the fire.

> Honestly I am dreaming of doing live mixing digital in that the converters and
> the mixing pc/rack are on stage and both the monitor- and the foh-mixer only 
> have control surfaces connected via network and a single (stereo-)channel 
> transmitted to them for their headphones should they need it.
> Free advantages: When your foh-surface fries up, the monitor guy will be able 
> to fill in for you. For smaller and more "arty" gigs your foh console can be a
> small hand-held
> connected via wireless 8-)

You have a lot more faith in the technology than I have.

> Maybe I should start my own business...

Maybe you should.

John