[Ardour-Users] Ardour 2.8.5 released

[Al Thompson]

Arnold Krille wrote:
> 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.
>   

The only major disaster I endured was when a tent over FOH position
ripped after a huge cloudburst and dumped several hundred gallons of
water in a PM3000.  I dare say that a digital console, as magical as
they apparently are, would not have fared any better.

Are digital consoles really as immune to beer as you claim??


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