jlepore wrote:Ask me in a week after I actually run a show on an M32. Have played in the shop with it, but until you do it under fire and have to make a show happen, you just don't know. In reality, the Pro1 price has been coming down (especially since the release of the M32) so you may want to check on deals there.
I would definitely avoid the Presonus at any cost.
Just to be curious and to be be fair about it..... Is your experience on the Presonus units with the more recent AI versions or the older models. Now I'm just going by what the factory reps have told me, so take that for what it's worth, but supposedly the AI versions and the new rackmount software UI only stuff is a very different console on the inside from the originals and not just in terms of feature set.
We have had demos in our office for both and they seem fairly decent to me, but obviously that's different than actual field exerience. Plus I'm never very good at all that "golden ear" kind of shit. As long as it doesn't sound like crap or I am able to actually A-B two products side by side, I rarely notice much differences in console "sound". Only things like diferences in how comps and gates respond and how well they work. I guess that is part of how they sound obviously, but to me that's different than over all sound quality.
For example, I always poo poo'd that M7 preamps sound like crap thing till I had the opprotuntity and time to comapre it with something else (ironically with a Behring ADA8000 hooked up via ADAT to the M7). Plugged in the same wireless mic to both preamps and discovered what everyone had been talking about.
Anyway, just curious if your experience is perhaps based on older models and maybe they have improved them?