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Sounds like a great opportunity. 

We have 4 Avantis and I love mixing on them.  But I wouldn't take one on a tour of that scale.  They have no redundancy in either power supplies or networked audio.  It's a $10k console for a reason.  If you like the AH stuff, go with Dlive S.  If you like Digico, why not get one?  The console cost is a rounding error on a tour playing 10k plus venues. 

For PA, you're not buying L-Acoustics L2 for fall 2024.  You might get K2 but it's unlikely. 

I'm curious why this would be a purchase rather than a rental from one of the usual suspects.  There's a reason Clair and the rest of them exist.  I have clients who consider purchasing parts of their system, but when asked where they're storing it, who's maintaining it, etc. they quickly come to realize why they're better off renting. 

You are doing your artist a disservice to reject JBL VTX or A series.

I currently am Audio Janitor for an l'Acoustic K3/KS28 rig.  Perhaps it's because I don't speak AudioFrench, but I find myself disliking most of the system tuning tools, but perhaps that's because the only official training is in-person and the system owner hasn't been keen on sending me out for that training.  It's not a bad rig but not what I would have specified even if I liked the l'Acoustic ecosystem.

My experience with S6L has been mostly that the WAVES part of the package crashed.  Never had an issue with the console itself.  YMMV, etc.  Take a look at the PM7 Rivage, I think you'll like the way it sounds and so far maintain Yamaha's "it just works" tradition.

+1. Are we actually talking about the Yamaha 4115H cabinets of my youth?!

There wasn't too much stacking going on with those! The heaviest telex-covered particle-board boxes I've ever dealt with that were only rated at "100W"
-Mine actually were run with the matching console. -mixing, EQ and effects all in one handy box!

If so they should probably be in a museum rather than out on shows.

+1. Are we actually talking about the Yamaha 4115H cabinets of my youth?!

+1. Are we actually talking about the Yamaha 4115H cabinets of my youth?!

Nice throwback. Haha. Used to call them YammA-7's...
Chris.

Stacking them with the top cabinet upside down for a horn to horn stack would help assuming they just needed more straight ahead output.

+1. Are we actually talking about the Yamaha 4115H cabinets of my youth?!

NEVER MIND! I got Smaart working with WDM. All I had to do was set Measurement Config to the correct device (Wave: DVS receive…) and everything works. Sorry for wasting everyone’s time 

--Frank

You HAVE NO IDEA how many people think this.
..
The lack of basic understanding in our industry is astounding sometimes

And that's why $300 power cables exist.

Out of curiosity, what issues are you having using Smaart with DVS in WDM mode?

I get the “Failed to start device.” dialog. Screenshot below. Also screenshots of the “Audio Device Options” dialog as it appears when DVS is set to WDM. (First pic is scrolled up, second is scrolled down.) I normally check the options I don’t want it to use but unchecked everything in this instance to give it free reign. When I plug in a USB device (Sound Devices USBPre2, which supplies its own ASIO driver) Smaart works normally.

The other odd behavior is that, unlike previous installations of Smaart, this instance takes >1 min of looking at the splash screen before it’s up and running.

I can live with switching between ASIO and WDM on DVS but I really hate how brittle the whole Windows handling of audio streams is and that it never seems to get any better. I know many say the answer is use a Mac but that, of course, comes with its own problems and there’s the devil I know…  Thanks guys.

PS: Smaart version 7.5.2.1

--Frank

Hey Dave..... I have continued to use V3 this whole time and the way I have things set up, I see no benefit (for myself) to paying $10 month for basically the same service - the extras that come with V4 do not interest me although I would understand others feeling differently. I do have to make sure I keep 'auto update' turned off on my iPads (got caught once before and had to restore an earlier saved iPad memory from Time Machine).

Yeah, I got screwed with that. I (unknowingly) updated to Version 4 and now I am locked out unless I subscribe...(those rat bastards). I only used Ver. 3  for a handful of simple lighting scenes, so it's not worth it to me to subscribe. Now I am looking for an alternative app that's free.