Yamaha recently introduced an addition to the M7 line with the M7CL-48ES. It’s basically an M7 but with only 8 analog inputs and 8 analog outputs on the control surface, along with an EtherSound port to connect up to three 1608ES Stage Boxes. So instead of eating up your three card slots with EtherSound cards [...]
Posts Tagged ‘control surface’
New From NAMM—Digital Consoles Pt. 2
Last time, we touched on the Phonic Summit and Presonus StudioLive. Both are small-format consoles suited for small installations, recording or portable systems (which is one of my interest at the moment). But I’m also looking at a FOH console. I’m leaning heavily towards to Digidesign Profile; which I had hoped to play with at [...]
Learning a New Board
Last weekend, we were about 20 minutes in to our stage set up when I realized there was a problem. Our regular FOH guy was not there. He’s been contracted to mix at Coast for something like 20 years, and he’s very reliable. So we called him. Turns out, we had ourselves a little scheduling [...]

