Max Thoburn
Member
HI
Im the TD of my highschool and a little while ago our old obssesion 1 died. The school then sent me and the Theather directer a quote for an element and asked if it would suit our needs. We said yes and then the school went quite.
A couple weeks later, they said the new board was comeing in. I was excited but when it arrived it was not the etc element but instead the etc smartfade. I was totally shocked. We run shows with many ques and looking more into the board and manual, makeing theather stacks seems so inpractial and i feel I am going to go crazy next year if i use it.
I found the reason for this is that there is a light and sound renovation comeing and there going to get a better board then, but I still dont want to use this while we wait.
I did some research and found the ETC nomad. Im not sure if we can still return the smartfade, but if we could, could we get the etc nomad for a similar price, but much more funcuntionality? It seems so form what i looked up. It seems we could get the nomad, the gadget, a touchscreen, and maybe a mac for a similar price as the smartfade 48.
Im just kinda pissed they made this decision with out asking the people who use the equipment.
Does anyone have opinions on this or the Etc nomad and touchscrean for use as a standalone console. It would only be for a year or two but its either that or the smartfade.
Thanks
-Max
Im the TD of my highschool and a little while ago our old obssesion 1 died. The school then sent me and the Theather directer a quote for an element and asked if it would suit our needs. We said yes and then the school went quite.
A couple weeks later, they said the new board was comeing in. I was excited but when it arrived it was not the etc element but instead the etc smartfade. I was totally shocked. We run shows with many ques and looking more into the board and manual, makeing theather stacks seems so inpractial and i feel I am going to go crazy next year if i use it.
I found the reason for this is that there is a light and sound renovation comeing and there going to get a better board then, but I still dont want to use this while we wait.
I did some research and found the ETC nomad. Im not sure if we can still return the smartfade, but if we could, could we get the etc nomad for a similar price, but much more funcuntionality? It seems so form what i looked up. It seems we could get the nomad, the gadget, a touchscreen, and maybe a mac for a similar price as the smartfade 48.
Im just kinda pissed they made this decision with out asking the people who use the equipment.
Does anyone have opinions on this or the Etc nomad and touchscrean for use as a standalone console. It would only be for a year or two but its either that or the smartfade.
Thanks
-Max