presonus studiolive 24.4.2 studio and/or live

Friday, 29 January 2010 09:12

presonus just announced the 24 channels version of the studiolive mixer in the namm show, which is awesome. 16 channels is just slightly not enough for my applications. but now this is definitely one of the consideration for this year.

let me go through a few things that gets my attention.

- 24 inputs digital mixer with firewire interface that allows multi-track recording and playback up to 24bits 48khz; you don't see too many firewire devices out there that does 24 tracks recording in 1 unit. althought it's only up to 48khz but that's quiet alot of bandwidth already.

- 4 subgroups, 10 aux buses; you can do lots of separated mixes in the unit.

- every channel has their own channelstrip for dynamic processing, 2 x digital signal processors(dsp), and 2 x 31 bands graphic eq; this pretty much means you won't need any other outboard gears for live.

- now the team is working on studiolive vsl software that allows remote control via wifi network. imagine you stand beside the musician on the stage to do their monitor mix with your smart phone, or tablet.

- $2300 USD; not a bad price for these much features

now just need for allen & heath to make the 24 channels version of their zed r16 mixer, and it's gonna be awesome. originally i preferred the zed r16 over the studiolive 16.4.2