| Who wants a dedicated digital console forum? [message #311568] |
Fri, 11 April 2008 17:04  |
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Doug Fowler
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| How about that forum?[ 105 vote(s) ] |
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| 1. | Yes, there is enough forum traffic to justify it |  45 / 43% | | 2. | No, let's keep using LAB for this | 60 / 57% |
What say ye?
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| Re: Who wants a dedicated digital console forum? [message #311695 is a reply to message #311692 ] |
Sat, 12 April 2008 00:30  |
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Jamie Taylor
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What about a separate subforum for 'digital audio'...not just digital consoles?
To me, that would warrant a separate forum, and would have enough questions/threads to warrant seperation.
Although, as others point out, the LAB seems to be doing fine by itself...but I think a 'digital audio' subforum would benefit a lot of people, including myself.
Australian Event Productions
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Asian Representatives for EONA ADRaudio Loudspeakers
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| Re: Who wants a dedicated digital console forum? [message #311696 is a reply to message #311568 ] |
Sat, 12 April 2008 00:31 |
 Karl P(eterson)
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I am with mac on this of being mixed opinion.
While there is (almost) enough traffic to justify its own forum, I have a hard time supporting breaking this forum up any more than it is. While I whole heartedly support the current system (Vid, Light, Install, Pro, MI Sound, ETC), I think that is about enough segregation at the moment.
At such a point in time as you were to break out digital consoles, you would probably want to break out the forum into major categories such as "Loudspeakers, Consoles, Processing, Other"....... and judging by my experience at past forums, almost everything ends up in the "other" category.
I think I'll vote to keep them together......
Karl P
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| No fence sitting for me ... NO [message #311709 is a reply to message #311568 ] |
Sat, 12 April 2008 04:21 |
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I voted no and would vote no a few more times if the software allowed it. Isn't it hard enough trying to figure out what belongs in the LAB, Lounge, and Basement as it is? Let alone adding another forum that should be discussed in here. I really don't look at the lounge, I never visit the sub forum, I never go to the lighting forum unless a specific question needs to be answered within a few days. I pretty much stick to LAB, Basement, and Marketplace, the other forums I couldn't tell you what they are called, let alone what discussion happens there. I see this as another set of links I have to put in to find the discussion I'm looking for. Did Mac leave that in the LAB, did Dave send that to the digital forum, has it been delegated to the basement, was it put in the marketplace for whatever reason? I don't think we need more forums here, perhaps less forums with better content.
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| Re: Who wants a dedicated digital console forum? [message #311742 is a reply to message #311568 ] |
Sat, 12 April 2008 09:20 |
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No.
Never underestimate the danger of stupid people in powerful positions.
Knowledge is the information acquired while searching for an answer, not the answer itself.
Alex S
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| Re: Who wants a dedicated digital console forum? [message #311766 is a reply to message #311692 ] |
Sat, 12 April 2008 11:15 |
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| Justice C. Bigler wrote on Sat, 12 April 2008 00:11 |
I'm in favor of a seperate forum for digital.
I'd also like to see a seperate forum for theatre sound (the theatre sound list doesn't really cut it for me), sort of a LAB, but for theatre stuff. It seems to me that the LAB (and Lounge) are really geared more towards bands and event sound, rather than theatre, which has it's own unique challenges.
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agreed +1
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| Re: Who wants a dedicated digital console forum? [message #311768 is a reply to message #311697 ] |
Sat, 12 April 2008 11:22 |
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Doug Fowler
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Karl -
re: networked audio forum
It is in the wrong place. IMO a board organization would help that, although there would still be far fewer networked audio posts than digital console posts. Moving the networked audio forum under the "Sound Reinforcemet" hierarchy would help that a lot, at least to the extent of driving any future traffic there. Here, IMO, is a case in which there should NOT have been a separate forum, i.e. not enough traffic to justify it. The only real points to be made about the networked audio forum is that there is still not that much interest in it, and most people don't even know it exists due to improper placement.
Jake -
There have been MANY discussions over forum segregation over the years, mainly before the majority of those reading this even knew about the live-audio board. I was firmly opposed to it, offering a 'where does it stop' argument to support my position. The answer is really easy - it stops where we say it stops. There was indeed talk of a microphone forum, a digital fx forum, etc. And I stood firm against it, of the position that one is a loadin too far.
But this is different. Look at how many posts are specifically about digital consoles. And the post number will only go up over the next few years.
The Lounge is for the weekend guys. Not busting on Mac, he's done a fine job here, but there are posts that start out on the LAB that should have been in the Lounge. Some/most of them get moved.
The Basement is for mostly off-topic stuff.
The LAB is for professionals, earning a living doing this.
Point taken about fewer forums with better content, but we can't control the content. More appropriately, steer the content where it belongs in the case of the Lounge.
I also think we would see a bit more manufacturer support in a dedicated forum if they didn't have to wade through a weekly Sunday Chat page that is now what, 8 pages of posts on a 1280x1024 display.
Here's my home page to the Sound Reinforcement forums, networked audio does not even appear:
http://srforums.prosoundweb.com/
I am possibly the world's biggest opponent of micro-splitting forum over content items. But this one, IMO, warrants it.
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So, for any manufacturers reading this: would you be more involved if all you had to do was check the digital console forum rather than wade through the rest of it?
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