Saying bye to SAC after 6.5 years
Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 8:24 pm
Overall, it was a relatively pain free ride for us, which is pretty amazing since we're a portable church that has to setup and teardown every week. It will be replaced by a fully loaded A&H GLD-112 in the next few weeks.
The decision to replace SAC was done so to allow new volunteers to get up to speed and to allow "hired guns" to be able to run the system should there be a week or 2 when no volunteers are available.
I'm looking forward to trying out the DANTE card, as it looks like we'll be able to send all 48 inputs + MAIN + AUX Mixes to the Mac Mini that will be running REAPER to record it all.
I'm still amazed at how much digital consoles cost once you start getting above 48 inputs and need more than a couple of dozen mix buses. We were definitely spoiled by the seemingly limitless I/O we had with SAC. It's a shame that Bob didn't realize the potential market growth if it had better control surface support and a few other minor things. We didn't bother moving to AMP as it would have put us into a similar situation with regards to volunteer training and the ability to call up a sound company to have a hired hand run the thing.
The decision to replace SAC was done so to allow new volunteers to get up to speed and to allow "hired guns" to be able to run the system should there be a week or 2 when no volunteers are available.
I'm looking forward to trying out the DANTE card, as it looks like we'll be able to send all 48 inputs + MAIN + AUX Mixes to the Mac Mini that will be running REAPER to record it all.
I'm still amazed at how much digital consoles cost once you start getting above 48 inputs and need more than a couple of dozen mix buses. We were definitely spoiled by the seemingly limitless I/O we had with SAC. It's a shame that Bob didn't realize the potential market growth if it had better control surface support and a few other minor things. We didn't bother moving to AMP as it would have put us into a similar situation with regards to volunteer training and the ability to call up a sound company to have a hired hand run the thing.