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+1 would love this.

Dave if you don’t mind me asking, what 5.1 work are you doing on a dLive? Broadcast, post-production, something else? I’ve always been curious who is using these kinds of consoles in surround.

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You can use scenes to change strip assignments on a layer and use softkeys to trigger that. So not exactly what you were asking, but it could accomplish the goal and is more flexible in terms of which faders and where you want them.

I typically have any vocal faders in the same place on every layer of a bank and work the other channels around that, but I understand wanting the real estate to minimize layer-flipping. This application of scenes has saved me some frustration before!

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+1

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You can configure the encoders to the right of each screen to control the HPF and LPF. That allows you to open the PEQ tab and have all controls on one screen. Unless you need those encoders for something else, which is totally understandable.

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Oooh a 2500 would be dope. I could see additional preamp/drive type options. Would also love if inserts could be the DEEP compressors, so you could accomplish two-stage compression on certain sources. I understand that logic is coming from my studio background, so in a FOH or monitors situation it may not be as useful, but for broadcast or post mixes it absolutely would be.

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+1 totally agree! It’s super awful when you need to delay dozens of channels by the same amount.

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If you’re just using it as an “alt version” of a channel for a monitor mix though, would that latency difference matter?

I would definitely be down for more bands of PEQ, but curious how that would work with the 4 bands of physical control on the surface.

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That’s terrible, Charles! In the mean time, you can use the VGA out on the back to feed another display and choose what gets displayed. Can’t remember the correct menu off the top of my head, but it’s in there somewhere.

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I see your thought process for sure, of only carving up what needs it. Also see the benefit of the NEQ on inputs in other scenarios as well.

You could create a mono group, set the input of the group to be your vocal preamp input. That way it can have a GEQ/NEQ on it, but can also be fed into an aux (your wedge mix).

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Would love this! I got used to DiGiCo, where all that matters in input/buss/matrix configuration is the bottom line. As long as you’re under budget overall, then you’re golden.

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This would certainly be helpful!

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Brian, you are correct about Waves working well as audio-over-IP for recording without doing a typical Waves setup! However, I’m curious what you’re basing your “fast” and “slow” comments on – I have the Dante 128×128 cards in 2 dLives as well as a Waves V3 in one and they seem the same in terms of latency. I run the Dante cards at 0.25 milliseconds, which is pretty fast if you ask me! Plus, if it’s only being used for recording (not monitoring) the latency won’t matter one bit. I have my recording computer running DVS configured at 10ms latency for that reason.

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The IP8 LCDs have meters for the channels, and you can map the buttons above and below each LCD to be whatever you want (correction, whatever it will let you). So if you just prioritize the button functions you need on that extra fader bank, you can really accomplish a lot with it!

I’m currently using one with only 2 layers of faders and the other 4 buttons on the right are actually scenes. So they can be really flexible. I’ve also worked with multiple IP8s in a surface-less scenario and it was more fun than I thought it would be.

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I definitely agree with this! Perhaps alongside the channel it’s attached to, so that particular meter is double the normal width.

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Martijn, don’t know how I missed your response, but thank you!

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