I disagree. The whole point of the AHM is for Allen and Heath to enter the “Installation” market.
Whether it be a small meeting room, or a large Ballroom – when you have an XLR connector on a wallplate at the front of the room – and you have the choice of connecting a podium mic, and hand held mic, maybe even a DI for a laptop’s audio to be connected – some sources will need phantom power and some will not. Even the most basic end user might need to know looking at the ipad interface whether phantom power is turned on or off. especially if they were to connect a 3.5m to XLR cable (which will literally fry the laptop being plugged in if phantom power is permanently turned on.
Some sources will need Mic level gain, some sources plugged in will need line level (no gain). the face that i can’t create a simple “mic/line” level gain toggle is alarming.
These are features which would take Allen and Heath “an afternoon’ to include in the software – they are also features which exist in all other DSP systems – whether it be Qsys, London Blu, Yamaha MTX, Biamp, Symantex etc etc
Why not include the features – and if some people (like yourself) who dont need the features just dont use it?
I’ve personally purchased over 15 AHMs (assuming these most basic features would exist), and now i’m waiting for them to appear while clients don’t have what they were promised (probably my fault for not doing my research before if purchased for the products) but seriously – name another DSP where these features don’t exist?
