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[Andrew Broughton]

Those of you that prefer the S6L, may I ask why? I'm genuinely curious. Particularly if there's someone that prefers the S6L as a monitor console.
It's limitations seem to make it a more difficult console to use than others, especially for monitors, so I'm trying to figure out why it's so popular and requested so often.
Perhaps those that prefer it over Digico, Yamaha or Midas can fill me in on what it has going for it.


Don't really want this thread to turn into a rant about what people hate about the S6L, I'm more interested to know why people love it. Thanks!

[brian maddox]

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Don't really want this thread to turn into a rant about what people hate about the S6L....

This was directed at me, wasn't it.... 

[Tim McCulloch]

This was directed at me, wasn't it.... 

Dude, it's just your opinion. But only on Zoom. 😏

[Andrew Broughton]

This was directed at me, wasn't it.... 

Lol.
I don't really need any help to create a long rant about the console, I could go on and on and on and on.
But as yet, the only answer I've heard from people that use them is that "doesn't matter to me what I use, as long as it works...", which doesn't really answer the question as to what's so great about them... So... inquiring minds would like to know, what am I missing? Why does it seem to be the #1 choice these days on riders?

[Steve Ferreira]

Plug ins

[Brandon Wright]

I agree. Particularly when you have to throw and go. It's slow and tedious to do anything. 

[Andrew Broughton]

Plug ins

Why not DiGiCo with a Waves rack then?

[Tim Weaver]

Why not DiGiCo with a Waves rack then?

Because the show file was built around an Avid console environment?


I know when I was touring (much smaller shows, but still legit touring) I would use my X32 all the time. I would set it up at festival FOH platforms in between the Digicos and the Venues and the even a couple of Studer Vista SR's.... I had my show on my desk and it was so much easier and better to just use that low end desk than to try and set my show up from scratch every day. Add plug-ins to the mix and its double the work....

[Don T. Williams]

Because the show file was built around an Avid console environment?


I know when I was touring (much smaller shows, but still legit touring) I would use my X32 all the time. I would set it up at festival FOH platforms in between the Digicos and the Venues and the even a couple of Studer Vista SR's.... I had my show on my desk and it was so much easier and better to just use that low end desk than to try and set my show up from scratch every day. Add plug-ins to the mix and its double the work....

And I'll guess in a double blind listening, very very few people (if any) could tell which is which.  You know your X32 and are comfortable with it.  The same would be true for the person that is normally a Digico or Avid user.  In my experience and opinion, the engineer and the artists determine the quality of the mix.  Modern consoles make very little true difference in how an event sounds.

[Russell Ault]

Why not DiGiCo with a Waves rack then?

I've never actually touched an S6L, but my recollection is that the integration between the console and plugins (both Waves and native?) is pretty tight. For a while DiGiCo attempted to do something similar (i.e. Waves plugin UIs running on the console itself) but gave up after a while in favour of some level of communication between the console an Mutli/SuperRack running on a separate computer, which is functional but a bit clunky.

-Russ

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