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[Jason Lucas]

A lot of cheaper digital consoles have come out in the last 5 years, I'm curious what was around before?

So far I know Yamaha had the PM1D, PM5D, M7CL, LS9, etc

Soundcraft had the Si (and Vi?)

Allen & Heath had iLive

Roland had their V-mixer series

Midas had the XL8 and PRO6 (PRO3 and 9 came out later I believe)

Avid Venue

Presonus

Mackie TT24

EDIT: Almost forgot Digico, although I have no idea which of their consoles were available at the time.

Am I missing anyone?

[Bob Cap]

Seems to me the first digital consoles I remember using were the Yamaha 01V, Ramsa had one also...

Bob Cap
Advanced Audio Inc.
Gilbert, MN

[Mike Diack]

Soundcraft had the Si (and Vi?)

Soundcraft preceded these with the 328, 328XD and 324
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[Tim Halligan]

Yamaha introduced the DMP-7 in the mid to late 90's.

I wonder if they now possess the holy grail of "vintage digital sound"?

If you paired one with a blackface ADAT, would the ground open up and swallow you as a service to audio?

 

Cheers,
Tim

[Brad Weber]

I believe the first version of the 156x156 TOA ix-9000 was installed in the Vienna State Opera House in 1990.  Following the 1988 release of the TOA SAORI digital processor that means large scale digital systems were around at least as far back as 1990.

[David Simpson]

I believe the first version of the 156x156 TOA ix-9000 was installed in the Vienna State Opera House in 1990.  Following the 1988 release of the TOA SAORI digital processor that means large scale digital systems were around at least as far back as 1990.

I recall seeing touring Broadway touring shows come in with 2 Yamaha O2R's as their FOH in a big roadhouse I use to work at. This would have been in 1998-2000. The would have been Troika, Networks, or Big League Theatrical tours.

~Dave

[Tim McCulloch]

The would have been Troika, Networks, or Big League Theatrical tours.

~Dave

They're probably still using the O2Rs if any of those producers are involved...  As facility A1, I've interfaced GL2400s with the house PA, scabbed together more front fills and otherwise finished out an equipment design for a show from every one of them.

Some of that as recently as 3 or 4 years ago... things seem to be improving as audience expectations rise and local presenters complain about audio when negotiating performance contracts.

[Tim McCulloch]

A lot of cheaper digital consoles have come out in the last 5 years, I'm curious what was around before?


Am I missing anyone?

Innovason

[Doug Fowler]

DM1000, DM2000.

[David Simpson]

They're probably still using the O2Rs if any of those producers are involved...  As facility A1, I've interfaced GL2400s with the house PA, scabbed together more front fills and otherwise finished out an equipment design for a show from every one of them.

Ya, often times the'd show up with 4 UPA's for a 3,000 seat hall. I too spent hours tying in fills and fixing holes. Ahhhh, the good old days.

Lets us not forget the Promix 01 and Behringer's first venture into the the digital world, the Behringer DDX3216.

~Dave

[g'bye, Dick Rees]

A lot of cheaper digital consoles have come out in the last 5 years, I'm curious what was around before?

So far I know Yamaha had the PM1D, PM5D, M7CL, LS9, etc

Soundcraft had the Si (and Vi?)

Allen & Heath had iLive

Roland had their V-mixer series

Midas had the XL8 and PRO6 (PRO3 and 9 came out later I believe)

Avid Venue

Presonus

Mackie TT24

EDIT: Almost forgot Digico, although I have no idea which of their consoles were available at the time.

Am I missing anyone?

I think all of them were arectangle, not around...

[Tim McCulloch]

I think all of them were arectangle, not around...

I'm stiffling a Marx Brothers moment...

[g'bye, Dick Rees]

I'm stiffling a Marx Brothers moment...

'ey!!!!  Whatta you talk?

[Bob Leonard]

Thank you for the new Columbia bean keyboard.

[Justice C. Bigler]

Innovason

[shudders]uhh...don't remind me. We still had our Innovson when I started here. It promptly "died" and was replaced with a PM5D-RH.

[Mikael Holm]

EDIT: Almost forgot Digico, although I have no idea which of their consoles were available at the time.

DS00, D5, D1, SD7, SD8, SD8-24

+ You forgot quite a lot more. I don't know if you were asking about currents products in 2009 or was this listing suppose to have legacy models too. Mackie, Sony and Lawo for example had several available. Then there was Soundtracs (read: Digico) and EAW UMX.96 (does anyone really have/operate one of these?)

[Brad Weber]

You forgot quite a lot more. I don't know if you were asking about currents products in 2009 or was this listing suppose to have legacy models too. Mackie, Sony and Lawo for example had several available. Then there was Soundtracs (read: Digico) and EAW UMX.96 (does anyone really have/operate one of these?)

Didn't Soundtracs also offer some analog consoles with digital channel and bus processing?

[Doug Fowler]

DS00, D5, D1, SD7, SD8, SD8-24

+ You forgot quite a lot more. I don't know if you were asking about currents products in 2009 or was this listing suppose to have legacy models too. Mackie, Sony and Lawo for example had several available. Then there was Soundtracs (read: Digico) and EAW UMX.96 (does anyone really have/operate one of these?)

There was one UMX96 making the rounds with Foreigner until fairly recently.  It may still be out there, Foreigner is reported to have different FOH now.

[Scott Bolt]

I wonder what ANALOG mixers will still be around 10 years from now

[Mark McFarlane]

I wonder what ANALOG mixers will still be around 10 years from now

Mackie 1202

...or maybe the i1202.  When it gets cheaper to execute even simple EQ and routing digitally, even cheap analog will go away.

[Tim McCulloch]

There was one UMX96 making the rounds with Foreigner until fairly recently.  It may still be out there, Foreigner is reported to have different FOH now.

I was told that 4 UMX96 were built, a design prototype that never left Whitinsville, a production proto that never left the factory, the unit that was/is out with Foreigner, and another that was shown on demo... not sure what became of it, but part of the top floor of EAW's old Whitinsville shop was/is filled with prototypes, pilot runs and failed custom designs.  It might be up there under a pile of stuff LOUD killed off before they could become products.

Edit ps.  Have a buddy on a Foreigner show, he reports Avid Venue at FOH.

[Ola Brekken]

The first digital mixer I ever used was the Yamaha 03D in the late 90's.
I still use this console on a regular basis.

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