[benniferjParticipant]

If you wanted to split off the AR84, get in touch, I’m only in Basingstoke.

[benniferjParticipant]

Watching this with interest. I can’t help but feel that you purchase a product for what it is at the time of purchase, on its merits and current status. It is much like buying a new Mac laptop – they may bring a new one out tomorrow but if you need what they are selling at the time, accept it and use it and get on with it! What you have is no less usable than it was before – you can still mix a great sounding concert with it. Dante gives you many options to integrate with other systems too and is a reasonable cost for what it does.

The iLive may be lacking some features now, but as a pure live sound touring desk, it is fantastic. It never made the promise of coming with specific add on packs and features – if they come, it’s pure bonus surely?

That said, an iLive2 would be interesting and probably on time given the advances in CL world.

[benniferjParticipant]

Hey mate… I did mention “I often have my master LR output strip and a few monitor sends on a bank of 8 on the right hand page of my GLD80.” in my first post.

My standard setup is as follows: Page A: First 12 as condensed useful strip – kick, snare, 4 vox, guitars, bass, DIs / right hand 8 as monitor sends and main LR
Page B: a strip of drums/guitars/bass/dis/vocals across the whole lot giving me 20 channels full across both strips.

[benniferjParticipant]

You’re probably right that I don’t really need a master LR fader 99% of the time. I don’t need the ‘mix’ button for the LR, as you say, tapping again on mix on whatever aux i’m on takes me back to LR.

It’s just a mindset thing I think, and by no means completely horrific – I maybe do it on 1 show in 5 and muting lasts for maybe 1 second tops before I react and fix it. I hadn’t really considered how strange it would be to run on a desk with no specific master fader. I’ll get used to it. It would be great to be able to disable that mute, I believe it really is due to the master mix being thrown in with input channels in the same area. (Yes, I do have the LR strip on the far right hand side of the desk but this doesn’t totally help on a busy mix!)

Thanks for help guys.

[benniferjParticipant]

I’m not sure if you’ve slightly misunderstood what i’ve been trying to get at. My biggest alert is when I accidentally hit the main LR mix mute and everything stops coming out of FOH, much more direct than a user key, haha. I’ve always tapped it back on very quickly, something like 1 second reaction to getting it back up again. I think the issue is that I come from a predominantly Yamaha background where the master fader is slightly separate from mix faders – i.e. fader 17, or 33, or indeed on an m7 or pm5d, they’re on a separate centre section.

For some reason on the AH I occasionally end up hitting the mute and have never done it on anything else. I believe it is because what becomes with master fader on a GLD is within the main channel strip area and indeed on some of my layers, the same fader is sometimes an input strip!

So I appreciate you saying ‘don’t press it’ and that would be ideal, but in the meantime I was wondering if there is something i’ve missed where I can just disable that from the master strip…

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