hi there, this is my first post, however i have been a long time reader in this forum and have picked up a lot of things here. i just got a job in a sound renting company and i have a some questions running through my head. obviously i have a lot to learn specially in the networking and digital realm,
we just did a show yesterday and we had 4 mixers in the site
2 of them (Digico Sd8 and digidesign profile) is used for house mix
the other 2 (digidesign profile and yamaha mclXXX, i dont quite remember) are for live national television broadcast
they told me they had to use two mixers on the house mix cause they would be short of the 60 inputs that is required. there where 48 inputs that are available on our profile's stage box then we used sd8's stage box for the additional inputs.
as far as i know, we had madi running between sd8 and profile to use them together then we ran another bnc cable for the broadcast room using profile and yamaha mcl boards
now i had this question running in my head since the day of set up. im sure there's got to be better a way.
my question is, cant they just add two input cards to our profile stage box from our 2nd profile stage box (giving us 62 inputs) and make the two profile consoles share one stage box? wouldnt that be the easy thing to do?
thanks in advance
zohar