Alright guys, here's my
AES report.
The theme was definately digital. Digital Snakes, Digital Consoles, everything. The links on this
page go to pictures I took
I checked out most of the new digital consoles. The most impressive was
EAW's new console.
Smaart integration and spaker processing built right in.
Mackie was displaying their new
tt24 digital console. Kinda cheaply built if you ask me. The
screen was small and hard to view at an angle. It does have lots of expandibility. It also has 24
mono XLR inputs right on the back so you can just
plug right in. Everything is recallable except for the
gain pots, that could be an issue.... I could be wrong here. Price is $7,100
One of the biggest things on the show floor was the
digidesign VENUE. Virtually unlimited expandibility. Everything is spread out and not squashed together which is nice. You can add on additional "sidecars" so you have more physical faders. Also, as is with many digital consoles, all your effects and processing is built in.
VENUE works with the same plugins found in protools. So, you have unlimited types of comps and you assign these to channels. The coolest part was the
stage box. It's a 10 or 12 space
road case which is on
stage, and you connect all you sends and returns through that. That connects to the
console with 2
BNC cables, which is very cool.
Lots of
line arrays too. More info as well as pictures can be found
here