@guma – we recently “upgraded” from “the poor LS9” to a brand-new GLD-112 Chrome edition.
The LS-9 (introduced circa 2006) is a 68-input, 72-channel console with 19 (16+3) mixes and 27 total buses – plus per-channel support for side-chain compression, compander, ducking, downward expander mode on the gate, and a few other conveniences I’ve requested as feature updates for the GLD-112. Price about 10 years ago (with expansion cards) was ~ $7k.
The GLD-112 Chrome edition (circa 2015) is a 48-channel (56-channels when using all 8 short-channel FX returns) console with 20 mixes and 30 total buses. Price this year for the Chrome edition with expansion card (excluding stage boxes) was ~$7k.
For a product at roughly the same price point, but 9 years newer, the GLD-112 Chrome edition does adds some conveniences (touch screen, more custom layers, 64-channel Dante vs 32-max on the LS-9) – but I was hoping for those in addition to, not instead of, the features of “the poor LS9” as a baseline.
