[geeks] digicam envy

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:49:19PM +0000, Kris Kirby wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Tim H. wrote:
> > Apparently now for road gigs a lot of the big groups have all the
> > equipment up front with the speakers and amp racks, and have ethernet
> > back to a full mixing console.  That has to be weird for the old guys,
> > who are used to gazillions of wires snaked back to the mix station, now
> > they just have a couple little wires.
> 
> that *must* beat the hell out of an 80 channel console with an A and a B
> side. That's 160 cables. Supposedly, there were a few mixers moving around
> with some 320 inputs; 160 channel beasts...

I don't know about 160 channel beasts, but it isn't hard to imagine
since for at least the past 8 years Mackie has made 96 channels easy.
They just would have to modify the addons to allow chained add ons.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd