Soundcraft Vi6 accompanies Wombats on tour

‘When I started my career as a sound engineer I used Soundcraft products all the time and so I really feel at home with them,’ remarked Mr Samwell. ‘My first impression of the Vi6 was that it was the first digital console that laid out everything you need right in front of you. You didn’t need to look around pages or anything as the whole mix was in front of you.’

Mr Samwell specified that he considers the Vi6 to be ‘the best sounding digital console on the market without spending insane amounts of money. Compared to any other console in its price bracket, it is hands-down the best sounding console as well as being dead-easy to use,’ he enthused.

Both of the engineers for the tour had no or very little experience of the Vi6 before the tour, but Mr Samwell reports that it took him one day to show them how to use it, and ‘they were completely at ease with it by the end of that day. I set them both up user layers with their bands on them and they were away and flying with no problems. I didn’t have to babysit them at all and I don’t know of any other digital console where you’d be able to do that so quickly. It’s just a walk up and mix straight away console.’

Continuing, Mr Samwell said: ‘During the show I don’t have to change pages or go through layers as my whole mix is in front of me. I can concentrate on mixing the band instead of clicking through menus and various screens like you have to do with competitor’s consoles.’

Mr Samwell reports that all of the technicians onstage had switch microphones, which got sub-mixed by the monitor engineer, which then got sent to him through one channel. ‘I also have a switch mic so I can talk to anyone onstage during the show and I can hear what they are saying all the time. I don’t have to have big, cumbersome comm systems – it’s just there all the time,’ he concluded.

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