Cobalt <-> Congo
I see what they did there... (at least when you think about it in terms of colors).
Seriously though, good job on the naming. First thing I thought upon hearing the name was that it sounds like a successor to Congo.
Who uses congo consoles... and for what? I've seen one in the wild all of once...
Who uses congo consoles... and for what? I've seen one in the wild all of once...
Is that half of Starksk on the left side of the picture?
I, for one, love them. We have a blip of them in SE Wisconsin, though for the life of me I've never fully understood how or why that developed because the Ion was already on the market when all of those consoles made their way into the wild. Last I counted, I knew of 6 or 7 of them in our area.
The programmers I know who have used them and taken the time to learn them have generally loved the console too. In contrast, the programmers who have all of their experience in Eos-family consoles and needed to use a Congo for a day to turn some lights on never get over the syntax.
In my experience, it's a great console for venues that need a standard theater-style cue list one day and a capable busking console for conventionals and automated devices the next.
I suspect you may have that backwards, as Light Palette & EOS were/are both "move-fade" tracking consoles and Express(ion), Performer, & Congo are/were cue-only "state" desks.
So should ETC just discontinue all products if they're not popular or common in the Las Vegas or the USA?
So should ETC just discontinue all products if they're not popular or common in the Las Vegas or the USA?
I suspect you may have that backwards, as Light Palette & EOS were/are both "move-fade" tracking consoles and Express(ion), Performer, & Congo are/were cue-only "state" desks.
Personally, I'm amazed to see the extension of the Congo line to Cobalt, as I expected (and predicted) that ETC would dump Congo a long time ago. It must have remarkable market penetration in foreign lands, since they seem quite scarce in the US. I don't know of any in Las Vegas except those on display at trade shows.
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Still, the Congo seems to have designer appeal more than technician appeal.
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