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| Re: Roland/RSS V-Mixing System [message #250656 is a reply to message #250599 ] |
Mon, 01 October 2007 14:05   |
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8 Preamps, that's not even going to replace our playback submixer.
It does look cool.
And that wheel seems to be the least ergonomic design for a tactile interface that I've seen in a while.
[Updated on: Mon, 01 October 2007 14:09]
Philip LaDue
RFL
"The loudspeaker has more of an effect on the sound we hear than anything else in the audio reproduction chain"- Alan Frank
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| Re: Roland/RSS V-Mixing System [message #250665 is a reply to message #250660 ] |
Mon, 01 October 2007 14:19 |
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That's more like it.
So really, there are 24 preamps?
16 remote and 8 local?
Looks more interesting now, minus the whole wheel thing.
Philip LaDue
RFL
"The loudspeaker has more of an effect on the sound we hear than anything else in the audio reproduction chain"- Alan Frank
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| Re: Roland/RSS V-Mixing System [message #250671 is a reply to message #250668 ] |
Mon, 01 October 2007 14:29 |
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Yeah, I was talking about their "basic" system as listed in the pamphlet.
With only one 16 channel snake you would have 24.
I'm all for rotary encoders, just not where they put it.
Philip LaDue
RFL
"The loudspeaker has more of an effect on the sound we hear than anything else in the audio reproduction chain"- Alan Frank
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| Re: Roland/RSS V-Mixing System [message #250811 is a reply to message #250599 ] |
Mon, 01 October 2007 21:55 |
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Aaron,
I've been under NDA on that product for... a year? Two? It's been a while, and it's gone through a lot of major revisions.
Long story short, it's designed to be the control surface that goes with their digital snaking system... bring however many channels you need, all that sort of stuff.
Hopefully it will be cool, I'll check it out at AES.
-- Bennett Prescott
Director of North American Sales
EONA ADRaudio d.o.o.
Cell: (518) 488-7190
An amateur practices until they get it right. A professional practices until they can't get it wrong.
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| Re: Roland/RSS V-Mixing System [message #251027 is a reply to message #250904 ] |
Tue, 02 October 2007 18:30 |
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It's actually expandable up to 48x16 according the press release in June's issue of Live Sound International.
Philip LaDue
RFL
"The loudspeaker has more of an effect on the sound we hear than anything else in the audio reproduction chain"- Alan Frank
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| Re: Roland/RSS V-Mixing System [message #252022 is a reply to message #251814 ] |
Sun, 07 October 2007 13:51 |
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Freaking sweet, It's definitely a contender for the medium format digital market.
The scroll wheel is actually less angled and more ergonomic in person than in the early promo photos.
I will definitely encourage a road test of this system.
Philip LaDue
RFL
"The loudspeaker has more of an effect on the sound we hear than anything else in the audio reproduction chain"- Alan Frank
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| Re: Roland/RSS V-Mixing System [message #252323 is a reply to message #250599 ] |
Mon, 08 October 2007 17:15 |
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I had Tom Stephenson walk me through it at the RSS booth. The claim seems to be that it's going to be an M7CL feature set at half the price. I think that's more than a little overzealous, but it is a nice little desk. The UI is well thought through, I found it comfortable in my fiddlings around. Notable absent is the ability to make the high and low EQ sections anything other than shelving, so it's not really 4 band fully parametric EQ. There is a separate high pass filter that can also be set as a low pass, notch, or bandpass.
Otherwise a very nice little package with a robust feature set, extremely flexible routing of channels and things like pre/post points and compressors, etc. It has a "rack" with FX and EQs that can be assigned at will. The unit itself has a quite reasonable number of local inputs and outputs, and up to another 80 inputs or outputs (but not both, so you could do an 80x0 or a 0x80 or a 40x40 or most anything in between) can be attached by hooking up digital snake frames, which are available in 16x8 or modular 40 channel frames. The modular frames have been reviewed on Road Test before by myself, they're even more updated now with AES and other I/O capabilities. The snake itself sounded pretty good, even under moderate abuse, when I played with it last. It remains to be seen whether the console and snake combo will also be sonically good.
This should be an interesting product in the sub-$15K digital mixer market. I think it's going to compete much more with desks like the LS9 and TT24, but that remains to be seen.
-- Bennett Prescott
Director of North American Sales
EONA ADRaudio d.o.o.
Cell: (518) 488-7190
An amateur practices until they get it right. A professional practices until they can't get it wrong.
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