After my last post concerning sound equipment, I'd like to get a more specific answer for one of the questions posed: Do I want an analog or digital console?
As many if not most people in sound, I started my education on an analog console, an Allen & Heath ML5000 at one of the theatres I work for. It was a beast. We have since replaced that with a Yamaha LS9-32 and I was the first employee to ever use if for a performance, and I'm growing fond of it.
I want to upgrade the console I currently use for myself and smaller gigs (24 channels tops), and I had only intended to spend around $2500 on the console, and I was going to get an analog one from A&H or Yamaha. But after I told my boss at my theatre, he basically told me thats a dumb idea because that console and all of the outboard processors, effects, and EQ would be obsolete in a year or two at most. I feel like he is correct (he is a little nutty, but very knowledgeable) and know that if I buy analog equipment now, that I will never be able to sell it if one day in the future I do want digital.
So would it be probably the most feasible and cost effective (in the long run) to just cough up the $5k and buy something like a Yamaha 01V (studio console, I know) or Yamaha LS9-16? Opinions?
As many if not most people in sound, I started my education on an analog console, an Allen & Heath ML5000 at one of the theatres I work for. It was a beast. We have since replaced that with a Yamaha LS9-32 and I was the first employee to ever use if for a performance, and I'm growing fond of it.
I want to upgrade the console I currently use for myself and smaller gigs (24 channels tops), and I had only intended to spend around $2500 on the console, and I was going to get an analog one from A&H or Yamaha. But after I told my boss at my theatre, he basically told me thats a dumb idea because that console and all of the outboard processors, effects, and EQ would be obsolete in a year or two at most. I feel like he is correct (he is a little nutty, but very knowledgeable) and know that if I buy analog equipment now, that I will never be able to sell it if one day in the future I do want digital.
So would it be probably the most feasible and cost effective (in the long run) to just cough up the $5k and buy something like a Yamaha 01V (studio console, I know) or Yamaha LS9-16? Opinions?
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